As Stacy A. Cordery, a professor of history at Iowa State University in Ames, tells us in “Becoming Elizabeth Arden,” the ...

The young princess Elizabeth, far right, with her little sister Margaret, and her parents when they were Duke and Duchess of York It is often said that Queen Elizabeth II lived out the first ...

It's been said no two sisters were less alike. One the anchor of a commonwealth. The other searching for purpose. What of the real women beyond the royal splendour - beyond the Crown itself?

Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday will become the longest-reigning British monarch ever, breaking the record set by Queen Victoria, her great-great grandmother. Now 89, she has been on the throne ...