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 ...

PARIS — Britain's King Charles III praised France's “wonderful welcome” at a grand dinner held in his honor Wednesday night at the sumptuous Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles, marking his ...

King Charles’s state visit to France has been postponed amid planned protests over the French government’s controversial pension reforms. Both France’s Élysée Palace and Buckingham Palace confirmed ...

King Charles III's state visit to France has been postponed amid unrest in the country and widespread protests over President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms. "The King and The Queen Consort’s State ...

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 ...