When did Maria Theresa come to power? Ascending the Habsburg throne in 1740, at 23 years old, Maria Theresa assumed rule at a perilous moment for her empire. The state’s coffers were empty and its ...

Emotional King Charles III appeared to shed a tear as he listened intently to survivors stories on his historic visit to ...

More than a million people, mostly Jews but also Poles, Soviet prisoners of war and other nationalities, were murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Second World War as part of the ...

King Charles issues vital warning to world on Auschwitz liberation anniversary - Charles travels to Poland to commemorate ...

Charles will travel to Poland to commemorate milestone with foreign monarchs, presidents, prime ministers and Holocaust ...

In 1407, Louis, Duke of Orléans, effectively ruler of France while his brother King Charles VI, a paranoid schizophrenic, was ‘absent’ (as the common euphemism had it), was bludgeoned to death by ...

Charles appeared emotional and wiped his eye at one point during a ceremony to mark 80 years since the Nazi death camp was ...