She was the longest-reigning monarch in British history and the second longest-reigning monarch in the history of the world, behind French King Louis XIV ... As a young woman, Elizabeth served ...

In the early 1670s, about 1000 young women - nicknamed the king's daughters ... Secretary of State for Louis XIV's navy, dreamt of making his country the dominant European power and mother ...

STEPHEN SMITH, the presenter of A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol, compares the courts of Warhol and the original Sun King, Louis XIV - casting The Factory as a 1960s version of the Palace of ...