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Queen's apartments at the Château de Chambord, photograph by Babeth Étiève-Cartwright, France, 30 October, 2025. Before the royal wing of the Château de Chambord, was completed, this was most likely the bedroom...

A glacier of cream-coloured earthenware produced by the Etruria factory of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95). This style was popular with Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III of Great Britain (r. 1760-1820) and so became...

James V of Scotland ruled as king from 1513 to 1542. He succeeded his father James IV of Scotland (r. 1488-1513), one of the country's most popular Stuart kings, but as he was still a child, the early part of his reign was...

Chlothar II was a Merovingian king of the Franks, who reigned from 584 to 629. He inherited the throne of Neustria as an infant, upon the assassination of his father, Chilperic I (r. 561-584). Following a long and bitter power struggle...

The position of God's Wife of Amun was one of the most politically powerful and spiritually significant in later Egyptian history. Elevated from a figurehead in the New Kingdom (c.1570-1069 BCE), the God's Wife of Amun would...

Brunhilda of Austrasia (c. 543-613) was a Visigothic princess who married into the Merovingian dynasty of the Franks, becoming the queen consort of the eastern kingdom of Austrasia. Following the brutal death of her sister...

The Wyatt Rebellion of January-February 1554 CE saw Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger lead a group of several thousand Kent rebels in a march on London with the primary aim of preventing Mary I of England (r. 1553-1558 CE) from marrying...

Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552-1618 CE) was an English courtier, soldier, mariner, explorer, and historian. A one-time favourite of his queen, Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558-1603 CE), Raleigh organised three expeditions to form a...

Queen of the Night, a large plaque made of baked straw-tempered clay, modelled in high relief. From southern Iraq, Old Babylonian period, 1800-1750 BCE. The figure of the curvaceous naked woman was originally painted...

A stone statue of Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt (reigned 1479–1458 BC, 18th Dynasty).