Bold, strategic, and steady, Isabella of Castile navigated an unlikely rise to the throne and ushered in a golden age for Spain. Looking Like a Queen“La Virgen de la Mosca,” painted in the 1520s, ...

Gortner (The Confessions of Catherine de Medici) returns with another examination of European royalty in his fifth historical. With older brothers Enrique and Alfonso set to inherit the throne of ...

Queen Isabella of Spain is well-known for her encouragement of Christopher Columbus’ expeditions to the New World, as well as for uniting her fractured country, transforming Spain into a world player ...

On Nov. 26, 1504, Queen Isabella of Spain — known as “the Catholic” monarch — died, and more than 500 years later, 133 Masses were celebrated in her memory in thanksgiving for her life and legacy as ...

This propulsive account from journalist Miller (Agent 110) brings to vivid life a little-known episode of WWI—the U.S. crackdown on an American-based movement to oust the Continue reading » Hitler and ...

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In an age when powerful female rulers were few and far between, Isabel of Castile rose against the odds to become one of Europe's most formidable monarchs. Crowned ruler of a chaotic, divided kingdom ...