Emperor Naruhito joins four other Japanese emperors to have received the Garter; his father, Emperor Akihito, was appointed to the Order by the late Queen Elizabeth.King George V appointed two ...

King George V appointed two different Emperors to the Garter—Emperor Hirohito, in 1929, and Emperor Yoshihito, in 1912—and King Edward VII appointed Emperor Meiji (Naruhito's great-great ...

At the state banquet at Buckingham Palace this evening, Emperor Naruhito wore the Garter Star for the first time—signifying his appointment to the Order of the Garter, which was made today by King ...

The oldest relative of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, has died. Prince Dmitry Romanov, 90, passed away on December 31 in Denmark. Romanov's father, Roman Romanov, was a second cousin and ...

Thousands of Russian religious pilgrims have walked in an overnight procession in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg to mark the 100th anniversary of the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family.

Tsar Nicholas II, the Tsarina Alexandra and their five children, along with three servants and the family physician, Dr Yevgeny Botkin, were slain in cold blood in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16 ...