Historical men and women

Duke Ernst of Bavaria-Munich was very worried about his son and heir, Albert. He wanted to make sure that Albert would make a good m...

Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) was a Norwegian explorer who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole, which he did in December 191...

On 10 th June 1190 Frederick Barbarossa, the Holy Roman Emperor (i.e. the ruler of German-speaking Europe) died in a river in Turke...

It is well known that King Henry VIII had no luck in trying to father a male heir until he married the third of his six wives, with ...

One problem with being born as a royal princess in past centuries was that you rarely had much choice as to who your life partner woul...

Born in 1841 as the eldest son of Queen Victoria, who was to have the longest reign of any British monarch up to that point, Edward sp...

Born in 1537, the son of King Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was only nine years old when his father died in 1547. Effective pow...