Like her famous 20th-century namesake, the 18th-century Lady Diana Spencer was born into a prominent family of British aristocrats, made a brilliant marriage and died young. Massey (an artist and ...

Karin Vogel is a direct descendant of an obscure German princess from the 18th century known as Sophia of Hanover. And that puts Vogel in line to inherit the British crown--after 4,972 other people.

Journalist and writer Clodagh Finn joins Kate to explore the life of Lady Betty, the Irish executioner of the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as some other Irish women who have defied the ...