The King appeared to break into a smile after Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle mentioned the Glorious Revolution in his address to the monarch. On Monday, Charles, accompanied by the Queen ...

The Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 replaced the reigning king, James II ... to urge William to intervene militarily. Firstly, after years of trying, James’ Catholic second wife finally ...

George III (1760-1820) reigned longer than any English monarch before Victoria, but America's last king still remains ... monarchy established after the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

The first modern revolution ... was that the Stuart monarchy, which, after the death of Elizabeth, had come to power in the person of the first King James, of Bible-version fame, got caught ...

William allowed his father-in-law to flee after he realised his situation was desperate, and was crowned King William III ... became known as the Glorious Revolution. In taking the throne, he ...

The essays they draw together argue that institutions in many cases became weaker, rather than stronger, after the Glorious Revolution. When William III, a Dutchman, became king in 1689 ...

The Glorious Revolution was the moment when the aristocracy and parliament came out, decisively, on top. In 1688 much of the political class detested the new king, James II, for his autocratic ...

Margaret Thatcher sparked a controversy during the bicentenary of the French Revolution ... with Britain's Glorious Revolution of 1688, when Parliament exerted its will over a king.

Michael Portillo reconsiders the uncomfortable facts of invasion and occupation which lie behind the popular celebration of The Glorious Revolution ... was set on becoming king himself and was ...