Queen Isabella of Castille and King Ferdinand II of Aragon receive Christopher Columbus in April 1492 at the Spanish royal court. Isabella was one of a group of medieval queens who took active ...

King Henry VIII was known for his six wives but his first royal wedding was a romantic event based on teenage love.

and the deposed King George II of Greece. Airplanes dropped flowers, and the earth trembled slightly at a long farewell salute of 101 guns. * Since King Ferdinand’s career passed chiefly among ...

In his 1843 book The Nursery Rhymes of England, James Orchard Halliwell speculated that the poem was older and that the “King of Spain ... the daughter of King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella ...