Composer Max Richter turned to Elizabethan-era instruments and a women’s choir to help find “ Hamnet ‘s” emotional tone.

A coin minted during the reign of one of Great Britain’s most famous monarchs recently fetched a record price at auction. The ...

Known for their contemporary fashion, designers Shantanu and Nikhil Mehra are all set to present a collection personifying vintage royalty inspired by the 'Elizabethan era' at the Delhi Couture Week.

For two minutes today the drumming will cease, the pipers will fall silent, the march of boots on procession routes will still. For two minutes today, at the end of the funeral service in Westminster ...

Amidst the topics of love, tragedy, kings, queens and madmen, there is another subject that appears in many of William Shakespeare’s fine works. Food. The Bard mentioned food over 2,000 times in his ...

A nearly 500-year-old Elizabethan ship was recently excavated by marine archaeologists from the bottom of a quarry lake in southern England, some 1,000 feet (300 meters) from the shore of Kent County, ...

The German costume designer used the monarch's multiple portraits for inspiration after falling in love with that period of English history when she was a child. By Elizabeth Snead The older Elizabeth ...

LONDON — Thousands of people turned out to wish Queen Elizabeth II a happy 90th birthday Thursday, as she became the first British monarch to reach that grand age. The occasion inspired a flood of ...

The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II processes out of Westminster Abbey after her funeral on Sept. 19. (James Forde for The Washington Post) You’re reading Post Elizabeth, our newsletter following the ...

LONDON — Thousands of people turned out to wish Queen Elizabeth II a happy 90th birthday Thursday, as she became the first British monarch to reach that grand age. The occasion inspired a flood of ...