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When the British royal family announced that Queen Elizabeth II died, a global band of editors raced to update her Wikipedia page. Within two minutes, someone had already written that she was dead. A ...

Queen Elizabeth II spent her final years secretly suffering through painful cancer, according to a new biography of the late British monarch. The Queen, who died in September after more than 70 years ...

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 metaphorical score of 10: “You’ve done it beautifully, my dear.” Emboldened by ...

Queen Elizabeth II "had a form of myeloma," or bone marrow cancer, in the months before her death, according to a new biography. Gyles Brandreth, a friend of the queen and her late husband, Prince ...

Queen Elizabeth II would go “weeks” without seeing her husband, Prince Philip, a new book titled, “Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait,” claims. The sparse meetings began when the Duke of Edinburgh ...

Powerful female leaders have long been a trademark of England. After all, Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t just the longest-ruling monarch, but she was also the only ...

Queen Elizabeth II thought grandson Prince Harry was “perhaps a little over-in-love” with his new bride Meghan Markle, according to an upcoming biography. “This was as far as she came – to my ...