Queen Elizabeth I’s secret love affair with Lord Robert Dudley set the royal court buzzing and threatened to unravel her ...

Only 25 years old when King George VI died, Queen Elizabeth began her reign in 1952. She ruled longer than any other British Monarch. Smithsonian collections reflect her influence on global history ...

The Queen encouraged art – painting ... members in 1952, when Elizabeth II came to power, however membership has changed since and continues to do so, even in modern times.