"I saw Venus naked, doing her hair at the lake," says one scholar. Dec. 18, 2013— -- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world. It is an eighth the size of New York's Central Park and is ...

From Buckingham Palace to Sandringham and Balmoral, the Royal Family have the privilege of calling several places home. And even though we know there are plenty of weird, fascinating facts about the ...

There’s no shortage of interesting facts about Buckingham Palace. For instance, there are 240 bedrooms, 188 of them for staff. There’s also a personal ATM, movie theater, doctor’s office and, arguably ...

The secret is out, and the royals and the Buckingham Palace courtiers are reportedly concerned. Legend has it that there are hidden underground tunnels connecting the royal residences to various ...

Marie Antoinette’s Versailles quarters are reopening to the public, including the Gold Room. Photo: T. Garnier. Courtesy of Château de Versailles. Shortly after her arrival in Versailles in 1770 to ...

Michelangelo is believed to have made the rarely seen drawings while in hiding after the pope sentenced him to death. Drawings believed to be by Michelangelo in the Stanza Segreta, or Secret Room, at ...

“One of the best-known secret passages at Buckingham Palace is one that connects the private apartments to the state rooms,” says a curator in a video shared by @royalcollectiontrust, in front of a ...