The UK is home to some of the world’s most iconic burial sites, where history’s most celebrated figures rest in peace – each with their own fascinating story. From a Scottish market town to the ...

There are many basic but essential facts to be learned about Samuel Johnson. For example, he was born in 1709 and died in 1784. His life spanned the reign of four British Monarchs: Queen Anne ...

One of the nicest walks in London follows a trail through the lives of the British royal family, from Kensington Palace to ...

Graham Craker, 77, had walked with the princes as Diana’s hearse made its way from St James’s Palace to Westminster Abbey for ...

IMAGINE if Scotland had a great, 18th-century poet, who was buried – due to his literary renown among his contemporaries – at Westminster ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Tourists visiting the unassuming but iconic Abbey Road have been left heartbroken when they discovered it was 'just a road'. The street ...

Tourists visiting the unassuming but iconic Abbey Road have been left heartbroken when they discovered it was 'just a road'. The street gained mass attention and even became a landmark after The ...

The world mourned with the royal family after Elizabeth’s II death, but where is the queen buried? Here’s what you need to ...

Several descendants of Lord Rhys have been buried at this Abbey, including 11 princes of the Welsh royal house of Dinefwr of Deheubarth during the 12th and 13th centuries. The weathered graves of ...

He also published collections of Irish folk songs and was conductor of the London Bach Choir. In 1902 he was knighted and his many pupils included Herbert Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams, both of ...

not buried in the ground, she added. The coffin is made of oak from the royal family’s Sandringham Estate according to royal tradition, Hayes said. The lying in state takes place at Westminster ...