ALAN COWELL

He documented the cruelties of white South African rule, and he was made to pay for it, enduring beatings and 586 consecutive days in solitary...

A key figure in the reunification of East and West Germany, he was a strict fiscal hawk as finance minister and was once seen as...

The sheikh was defense minister when Iraq invaded his tiny but oil-rich country, and became ruler in his 80s.

The sheikh was defense minister when Iraq invaded his tiny but oil-rich country, and became ruler in his 80s.

King Charles III’s coronation will be disseminated across numerous platforms to a less sympathetic public than when his mother was crowned in 1953.

He denied that he was Stakeknife, the code name of a high-ranking British mole in the Irish Republican Army during the Northern Ireland conflict.

As chancellor of the Exchequer, he helped lift Britain with tax cuts and other Conservative measures — the “Lawson Boom” — but harder times followed,...

By turns elusive and confessional in public, she used dark satire to explore the divides between men and women.

For 70 years, Elizabeth II was the anchor of a nation’s identity. Charles III now will take on, or recast, that role.

She ruled over Britain for seven decades, unshakably committed to the rituals of her role amid epic social and economic change and family scandal.