The Pacte de Famille is one of three separate, but similar alliances between the Bourbon kings of France and Spain. As part of the settlement of the War of the Spanish Succession that brought the ...

Catherine, who ruled Russia for 34 long years, made the country a powerful nation but her ‘benevolence’ was different ...

Antoine de Bourbon, King of Navarre (1518-1562), King of Navarre; father of Henry IV, King of France. Sitter in 1 portrait.

The county was given its name in 1785 in thanks for France's assistance to the U.S. during the Revolutionary War. Another rumor states that the whiskey got its name instead from Bourbon Street in ...

A watch made for Marie Antoinette is to go on display for the first time in the UK, at London's Science Museum. Abraham-Louis ...

From an 18th-century Spanish carriage to a luxurious photo safari in Namibia, the retailer is bringing fantasy to life with a ...

Despite the uptick in price, the attitude toward investing in high-end spirits is shifting away from only collecting and ...

The desire to be vindicated is as old as history itself because history cannot help but create winners and losers; history ...

The necklace containing around 300 carats of diamonds was bought by an unidentified woman who put in her bid over the phone, ...