A recent episode in Maryland is a reminder that a spouse can be, and often is, a co-wielder of political power.

This new teenage bride had gotten her father to give her new husband an important office in his native Ireland.

For all the things we know about Anne Morgan Carey, Baroness Hunsdon, there is one important fact we don’t know. Her birthday.

There is a typo in Westminster Abbey. And it's been there for 450 years.

On 3 January 1589, Odelia de Morada arranged her own abduction from Dordecht to save her from marriage to a Spanish Catholic cousin.

The many Elizabeths in Elizabethan England. Elizabeth Knollys Leighton, niece to Queen Elizabeth is one of them.