Every year Queen Elizabeth II addresses the British Parliament. She must follow a long-standing custom. She must go first to the House of Commons. She knocks on the door. It is opened and then shut in...
Among the paintings at a Vermeer exhibit in London was one by Van Ostade that belongs to Queen Elizabeth II. It's a painting of the interior of a peasant's cottage. Imagine! The Queen in the splendor ...
Bill Bryson writes about visiting Copenhagen in 1990 and was amazed to learn that Queen Margaret used to walk from the palace every morning to the shops to buy flowers and vegetables....
When Queen Elizabeth was crowned they brought to her a sceptre. On the top of it was the star of Africa, the largest diamond in the world. Before that they brought to her a staff. On the top of tha...
Lady Diana Cooper, an aristocrat whose husband was an ambassador, went to a concert and began chatting with “a nice little woman.” Afterward, she suddenly realized the woman was Queen Elizabeth II. ...
The Queen of England has two birthdays. Her actual birthday is April 21, but the decision makers wanted to celebrate it when the weather is more pleasant, so her official birthday is the second Saturd...
In London's Westminster Abbey, many great men and women are buried in the floor of the church. Visitors walk over their tombs without hesitation...all but one. There is one tomb that no one walks ov...
There is one place where the Queen (or King) of England cannot go. She is not permitted to go there. It is the House of Commons. Because of an event long ago, the ruling monarch is forbidden to enter ...
Sir John Bowring was a famous British diplomat. He was fluent in thirteen languages. He was twice elected to Parliament. He was knighted by the Queen. He was sent on diplomatic missions to China, Thai...
Recently the body of Ethiopia's King Haile Selassie was reburied. He had claimed to be descended from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. He was revered as a god by the Rastafarian sect. During his l...
Wally Rendel, Pastor of Southern Acres Christian Church in Lexington, KY, sent this moving story in response to our request for Easter illustrations and sermon ideas: Our daughter, Jill Marie Rendel, ...
Soren Kierkegaard, the great Danish theologian of another century tells a story of a prince who wanted to find a maiden suitable to be his queen. One day while running an errand in the local v...
Lost Wing Power A Beekeeper once told F.B. Meyer how some of the young bees are nurtured to ensure their healthy development. The queen lays each egg in a 6-sided cell which is filled with enough poll...
In 1961, during Billy Graham’s London Crusade, Ruth Graham went to Belfast to visit a former missionary she had known in China. ...
We are geared to worship someone or something; make sure the Object of your affection is the One who is worthy of such devotion....
It has been centuries since the world saw a new illuminated Bible; that is, a Bible copied by hand and decorated with pictures and colorful symbols. But there is such a manuscript now in progress. It ...