The role of personality and charm in running a state is one theme of Richard Bassett’s superb book, the first English ...

The 18th-century reign of Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, was a blend of crafty statesmanship, ugly anti-Semitism and cultural patronage In October 1762, six-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...

Joseph’s children followed behind the new heir presumptive. 23 years later, in 1743, Maria Theresa would be crowned Empress; an event where she was noted by a British diplomat as ‘most attractive’ ...

She may be only 13 years old, but Princess Estelle of Sweden looked every inch the modern royal in new photographs released ...

An equally important blow was struck by an Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi in the 18th century. Agnesi was the first woman to write a mathematics textbook and to be appointed to a ...

In a precise, uncluttered staging by Emmanuelle Bastet, the 14-year-old Salzburger's first opera seria will be revived from ...

Empress Maria Theresa transformed the palace and its surrounding gardens into a lavish imperial residence, a UNESCO World Heritage site, with Baroque and Rococo architecture, impressive symmetrical ...

Europe is home to some of the most breathtaking palaces in the world, each one built to showcase power, wealth, and royal ...

At four years old he wrote his first keyboard concerto, at six he was performing for the empress Maria Theresa. Soon he and his father were touring Europe, and the young Mozart's exploits proved ...