EL Escorial, a monastery and World Heritage site near Madrid, is undergoing a €6.5m reorganisation.  Almost 40 years after it ...

The Master of the Armada. The Life and Reign of Philip II of Spain. By Jean H. Mariéjol. (Hamish Hamilton; 18/-.) D.J.A.

197 x 107 cm. (77.6 x 42.1 in.) ...

In 1596, Philip II of Spain defaulted on debt for the fourth time. An experienced and systematic administrator with an eye for the tiniest detail, he requested and pondered arguments from his trusted ...

Marriage rejection King Philip II of Spain had been married to Elizabeth’s sister, Mary I. When Mary died he offered to marry Elizabeth but she rejected him. Piracy English sailors like Hawkins ...

The so-called Golden Age of Spain had many tarnished secrets, and King Philip II was behind the darkest of them. Cold, cruel, and inflexible in his ways, Philip viewed himself as the pious hero of ...

3/3 Spain's golden age under Philip II through to the Civil War and Franco's dictatorship.

When Elizabeth I ascended to the English throne in 1558, she rejected Philip II, Emperor of Spain, as a suitor. Thirty years later, he would lead a huge invasion force against her, seeking to ...