LONDON (AP) — Holding prestige but not power, Britain’s monarchy is finely tuned to public sentiment. That's been evident with the disgrace of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, who was stripped of his princely title and his spacious home by his brother King ...

For thousands of years, monarchies have risen, collapsed, and vanished entirely. Yet a small number of royal families have survived wars, revolutions, colonial rule, and modern democracy without losing their thrones. Some of these monarchies were already ...

LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II lives on at the Cool Britannia gift shop across the road from Buckingham Palace. Four years after the queen's death, the shop is doing a brisk business in mugs, tea towels and key rings bearing the likeness of Britain's longest-reigning monarch as the nation marks the centenary of her birth on Tuesday.