In recent months, King Charles's efforts to streamline the monarchy have encountered significant resistance. Following the Royal Family&...

Republican Angela Gibbins, 53, was given her marching orders after the "distasteful and personal attack" on the future King went viral last July

And more interesting facts about the future King of England.

“We all knew we had to go into cellars which were hidden from the outside world.” From the ‘Closet to the Screen – Women at the Gateways’ by Jill Gardiner. In a fascinating book originally put together by Hunter Davies in the late sixties called The London Spy – A Discrete Guide To The City’s … Continue reading "The Lesbian Gateways Club on the King’s Road and the Killing of Sister George"

My public school education taught me very little on either the English or American women’s suffrage movements. I received a sterilized, almost Disneyfied briefing on the mass of ladies who fought for the vote, but they remained a nameless marching sea of stern-faced sashes and hats. (To be fair, this was a school that still had the U.S.S.R. on the maps, so historical pedagogy may have taken a backseat to acquiring basic resources like toilet paper, and possibly clearing out asbestos.) It was only years later and of my own accord that I beefed up on stories of women terrorizing politicians, enduring hunger-strikes (and the subsequent force-feedings) and yes—throwing themselves in front of the King’s horse. Up until very recently, I had presumed that last one was more of a symbolic than violent gesture—a bit of pedestrian-on-equestrian hassling. On the contrary, British suffragette Emily Wilding Davison actually chucked herself in front of—and grabbed the reins of—a galloping horse as it was running the Epsom Derby in 1913. The video below is actual footage of the brutal event. Davison valued the cause more than self-preservation; she had previously been thrown...

. King George VI died on the night of February 6, 1952. The funeral took place on a dreary winter day — an even grimmer occasion than the average royal funeral. Photographer Ron Case (of Keys…

THE Royal Family will be “united” in fury at a “cruel” show that mocks Prince George, eight, an expert says. The Prince, a Family Guy-style animated series, portrays the fut…