Prince William and his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, will soon welcome a third child to the royal nursery. Kensington Palace officials announced Monday that the former Kate Middleton is pregnant, but was not feeling well enough to attend an engagement later in the day. As ...
A Thai man was jailed for 18 years on Wednesday for posting six video clips deemed insulting to the monarchy, his lawyer said, the latest conviction in junta-ruled Thailand where authorities have cracked down on critics of the monarchy and military. Use of the country's ...
It was a typical phone call between two boys playing and their mother, who was on vacation in France. It was brief — the boys wanted to get back to playing with their cousins, not spend time on the phone chatting. The brevity of that ...
Thailand has amended a royal property law to formally give King Maha Vajiralongkorn full control of the agency which manages the multibillion-dollar holdings of the monarchy. The newly amended Crown Property Act replaces three laws dating back to as early as 1936, and is the ...
Saint or playboy; blood-stained autocrat or family man; incompetent leader or just a victim of circumstance? A century after he ended Romanov rule, Russia's last czar still prompts heated debate. Nicholas II abdicated on March 2, 1917, or March 15 by the current calendar, in ...
Queen Elizabeth II has become the first British monarch to reach the milestone of 65 years on the throne.
Thousands of papers from the reign of Britain's King George III went online Saturday, including an essay by the monarch on losing America and details of his spy network. Some 33,000 pages were published by the Royal Archives detailing the life and times of Britain's ...
Queen Silvia of Sweden says the royal palace where she resides is haunted, according to a documentary to be aired on public television on Thursday. "There are small friends ...ghosts. They're all very friendly but you sometimes feel that you're not completely alone," Queen Silvia ...
Thailand's parliament on Tuesday named Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn as the new king, completing a formal step for the heir to take the throne following the death of his father last month. The Cabinet, following a 1924 law on succession, submitted Vajiralongkorn's name to the National ...
Tens of thousands of Thais streamed into Bangkok's Grand Palace on Saturday as the public was granted its first chance to enter the throne hall where the body of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej is lying in state. Bhumibol, who died at 88 two weeks ...
His uncle was the last emperor of China, reigning over the Middle Kingdom from the Forbidden City. Now Jin Yulan scours the antique shops of Communist-ruled Beijing for trinkets that might once have belonged to his family. The Qing dynasty ruled over China for 268 ...
Following the death of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Thursday, many Japanese companies suspended their business operations in the country on Friday as a show of respect.
