Any king who starts out as Charles the Beloved and ends up as Charles the Mad had something go seriously wrong along the way.

Louis XIV was King of France for a whopping 72 years. As his sobriquet, “The Sun King,” suggests, Louis came to symbolize the big, bright, magnetic pomp of the French monarchy at its peak. Behind the ...

King Charles III and President Emmanuel Macron shook hands and stood together on the steps of the Elysee Palace before they bade each other farewell towards the end of the second day of the monarch’s ...

The British monarch traveled abroad with Queen Camilla a month after resuming forward-facing duties Janine Henni is a Royals Staff Writer for PEOPLE Digital, covering modern monarchies and the world's ...

What do Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Neil Armstrong, Chuck Yeager, Allan Shepard, Yuri Gagarin, Felix Baumgartner, the Wright brothers, the last king of France, and Benjamin Franklin have ...

For President Emmanuel Macron, who has been the target of widespread fury and protests after he pushed through an increase in the retirement age, a planned royal visit was particularly ill-timed. By ...

Masons and metal workers are rebuilding the spire on a Medieval church in France that has been missing since a fire destroyed it in the 18th century. Just outside of Paris, a group of stonemasons and ...