“This painting was once owned by our first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, and was hanging for several years in 10 ...

The work features in A Catalogue of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole’s Collection of Pictures, where it is described as: “‘Watteau—A dream of Watteau’s, Himself asleep by a rock ...

Catherine, Lady Walpole, wife of Sir Robert Walpole, Viscount Walpole and Baron Houghton, has a white marble memorial in the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. The square plinth ...

Huge fortunes were lost. In April 1721, Sir Robert Walpole became first lord of the treasury and chancellor of the exchequer, in the wake of the South Sea Bubble financial crash of 1720.

The U.K. government is hoping to save a painting by the 18th century artist Jean-Antoine Watteau for the nation. Le Rêve de L’Artiste (1710), valued at just over £6 million ($7.9 million), has ...

Apparently, the prince accepted and a date for a secret wedding was set, before the plan was scuppered by the intervention of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. Another famous Spencer ...

Sarah Rose Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, has been widely hailed for her style over the years, drawing praise for her ensembles at events including the wedding of the Prince and ...

This also appears to be where Cameron's cat, Larry, likes to spend time. Larry, a brown and white tabby, was adopted in 2011 to control the mice population at 10 Downing Street.

Are there three children who've collectively logged more private air travel than Blue Ivy Carter, Rumi Carter and Sir Carter? "My kids come with me everywhere I go," Beyoncé recently revealed ...

He was a shrewd and gregarious advertisement for all those things which are now so frowned upon in today's dreary, box-ticking corporate world. Here was a man who followed his hunches, disliked ...

Robert Saleh was responsible for five of the 15 consecutive games that the Jets lost to the Patriots. Bill Belichick isn’t coaching the Patriots anymore. Tom Brady hasn’t quarterbacked the ...

A half century ago today, Sept. 16, 1974, Robert Caro published "The Power Broker," his mammoth biography of Robert Moses, who dominated New York and its environs for 40 years building bridges ...