Elizabeth first

With her huge, dramatic collars, ghostly pallor and flaming curls of red hair, Queen Elizabeth I’s image is etched in royal history. Trained from a young age to see power and strength in public image, she cultivated a persona that was both pure and powerful. Unwed and without children, she portrayed herself as the chase,...

A remarkable number of the Tudors had ‘red-gold’ hair. Though the largest proportion of red hair in the world comes from Scotland, Ireland, and Teutonic countries, it can show up anywhe…

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), three-quarter-length, with an ermine, in a richly embroidered and bejewelled white dress and ruff, a mantle decorated with flowers, holding a fan and a glove in her left hand and olive branches in her right, in an interior

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Margot Robbie is back to playing real-life people in her latest film, Mary Queen of Scots

She came to be known as the Virgin Queen, the commanding female monarch who defeated an Armada and launched Britain on its imperial adventures.

Supernova 1987A A Tribute to the Challenger & Columbia Shuttle Crews I have no doubt that all of us can remember where we were or what we were doing on that fateful January day of the Challenger launch. And I did not work on this page until March during the anniversary of the Columbia shuttle disaster -- another such day when one remembers only too well where they were in their life. Glittering stars and wisps of gas create a backdrop for the self-destruction of a massive star, Supernova…

Young Elizabeth Elizabeth I in her coronation robes, patterned with Tudor roses and trimmed with ermine. January 15 ,1559 she was crowned at Westminster at age 25.

Lancaster and York Queens of England by marriage: consorts of Lancaster and York kings of England.