NPR's Scott Simon talks with Craig Brown about "Q: The Voyage Around the Queen," a biography of Queen Elizabeth II told in vignettes and observations. RICHARD DIMBLEBY: In this garment of white, in ...

Donald Trump was well known for lavishing praise on Queen Elizabeth II, but it appears that the feeling was not mutual. A new biography of the late British monarch, penned by Craig Brown, casts light ...

Robert Graves, seldom a shrinking violet, on receiving the late Queen’s Medal for Poetry, in person, aged 73, gave her a ...

The two trailblazing women met weekly for 11 years during the prime minister’s three terms, but the rumored tension may have also been filled with mutual respect.

At the New York Public Library’s annual Library Lunch, former New Yorker editor Tina Brown said there’s an obvious best seller waiting to be bestowed on one lucky biographer: the book on Queen ...

For any author, pre-publication attention is an infinitely precious commodity. So it must have been with great delight that Craig Brown, the British satirist, learned last month that his book “Q: A ...

Queen Elizabeth II was battling bone cancer before her death, according to a new book. Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson describes, in his new memoir, “Unleashed,” his final meeting with the late ...

Queen Elizabeth II found Donald Trump and his family to be “gracious” and “wonderful guests” — despite recent claims the late monarch dubbed him “very rude,” according to an ex-Buckingham Palace ...

Heavy is the head that wears the crown and when that crown was the Imperial State Crown - which weighs just over a kilogram (2.3 pounds) - Shakespeare’s famous line has never rung more true.

One constant of Queen Elizabeth II’s long life was her love affair with dogs, specifically the very many corgis and dorgis (half-dachshund, half-corgi) that she bred beginning in childhood. Though the ...

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II steps down this weekend as Europe’s longest-serving monarch and the first Danish royal to abdicate since 1146. Like her friend and distant relative the late Queen ...