Shekhar Kapur's "Elizabeth" sequel was awash with blues -- and not by accident. "We used color to tell the story," explains costume designer Alexandra Byrne, an Oscar nominee for her work on the ...

Elizabeth I is the only English queen never to have married. The iconic Tudor monarch's last visit to Kenilworth Castle 450 ...

At the head of England’s emergence as an empire was the legendary Queen Elizabeth, the virgin queen, daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII and no stranger to scandal. Her power led to a relatively ...

Succeeding to the English throne in 1558, she was the third woman monarch in the nation’s history. The role of English monarch?which involved being commander in chief, head of the English Church, and ...