James Crawford-Smith is a Newsweek Royal Reporter, based in London, U.K. His focus is reporting on the British royal family and royal fashion. He has covered contemporary and historic issues facing ...

Most people know Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana were two huge British icons who tragically passed away in the 1990s, but some fans don’t know there’s a Queen song that memorializes both of them.

Queen Elizabeth has ruled over the United Kingdom and its Commonwealths for decades; the queen just celebrated her 94th birthday on April 21. She was thrown into the role when her father died ...

Queen frontman Freddie Mercury was a tireless, energetic performer who skillfully interacted with the rock band’s massive crowds. In the mid-1970s, they took this band-crowd relationship one step ...