History remembers him as King Edward VII, but during the 60 years that Prince Albert Edward waited to succeed Queen Victoria on the British throne, he was better known as "Dirty Bertie," a man with a ...

A conservator at London’s Westminster Abbey is carrying out meticulous restoration work on a fragile 700-year-old chair to ensure King Charles III can sit on it at his coronation in May. The ancient ...

When King Charles III is coronated on May 6, he’ll do so from a very historic point. The coronation chair, which was commissioned by King Edward I and finished around 1300, has served as the seat for ...

King Charles will be crowned in a chair that's been a part of royal tradition for more than 700 years Alex Gurley is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her ...

The Coronation Chair, on which King Charles III will sit for part of his ceremony on Saturday, is getting a touch-up. It hasn’t been used since Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953. By Derrick ...

Besides the Crown Jewels, which were on full display at King Charles III’s coronation, the ceremony included some hidden, or at least not-so-obvious, details. Case in point, the historic Coronation ...