A MEDAL awarded to a hero pigeon in World War Two is set to sell for £10,000 at auction. Tommy was supposed to be racing from ...

A medal awarded to Tommy the pigeon, one of the brave birds which inspired the 2005 animation film Valiant, has gone on sale ...

She became a symbol of national unity and resistance, particularly during World War II, when she led the Dutch government-in-exile from London. Beyond her financial success, Queen Wilhelmina used ...

Speaking to Maia Tribich MBE, 94, a Polish-born British Holocaust survivor who was sent to a labour camp and two concentration camps during the Second World War, the Queen said: “Oh, you were ...

Queen Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for ... in 1964 that he was a senior officer for the Russians during World War II. However, Elizabeth wasn’t clued in about this until nine years later.

Queen Elizabeth II was not told for almost ... s KGB spy agency while working as a senior MI5 officer during World War II. The double agent also said that he had been in touch with the Russian ...

Papers released by MI5 show that although Blunt confessed to them he had spied for the Russians during World War Two, the late queen herself was not officially told for nearly nine years.

Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, was under suspicion for years before he finally confessed in 1964 that, as a senior MI5 officer during World War II ...

Tommy was taking part in a race from Dorset to Cumbria in 1942 when he was completely blown off course in a storm and ended up in Nazi-occupied Holland, ...

During World War II, as princess and heir to the throne ... the first had been her mother, Queen Wilhelmina, in 1942. Since the royal entourage also wished to visit locations where Dutch immigrants ...