On the night of Easter Monday March 31, 1578, assassins murdered the treasury secretary Juan de Escobedo in cold blood in the royal palace of El Escorial.

Young Catherine is a 1991 British TV miniseries based on the early life of Catherine II of Russia.

The film opens in 1904 with Alexei's birth during the Russo-Japanese War.

Princess Caroline Matilda of Great Britain is shown writing a letter to her children in which she professes to tell them the truth.

The film recounts the last years of the life of the Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf of Hapsburg until his tragic death in Mayerling.

The Borgia (Spanish: Los Borgia) is a 2006 Spanish / Italian biographical film directed by Antonio Hernández.

During the late 16th century, Catholics and Protestant Huguenots are fighting over political control of France, which is ruled by the neurotic, hypochondriac King Charles IX, and his mother, Catherine de' Medici, a scheming power player.

Alfred Redl, a Ruthenian boy from Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, wins an appointment to a prestigious military academy in spite of being the son of a mere peasant farmer.

Mary, Queen of Scots, awaits her execution by order of Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Agony (Russian: Агония, romanized: Agoniya; U. S. theatrical/DVD title Rasputin) is a 1981 Soviet film by Elem Klimov, made c.

Hamlet is a 1996 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, adapted and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars as Prince Hamlet.

The film opens with pub landlord and frequent holidaymaker Vic Flange (Sid James) openly flirting with the sassy saucepot widow Sadie Tompkins (Barbara Windsor) as his battleaxe wife, Cora (Joan Sims), looks on with disdain.

Director Salvador Litvak and his writing partner, Nina Davidovich Litvak, based their screenplay on their extensive research into Lincoln's friendship with Lamon.

In 1991, the remains of Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family (except for Alexei and Maria) are discovered.

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war.

Grace of Monaco is focused on former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles de Gaulle in 1962, as well as her considering a return to Hollywood to film Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie.

Following the death of her husband Francis II of France in 1560, Mary, Queen of Scots (Vanessa Redgrave) returns to her native land.

In 1561, nineteen-year-old Mary Stuart, Catholic Queen of Scotland, returns to her home country from France following the death of her husband, Francis II, to take up her throne, where she is received by her half brother, the Earl of Moray.

A Man for All Seasons is a 1988 American made-for-television drama film about St. Thomas More, directed by and starring Charlton Heston.