England’s King George III went mad in 1776, and nearly 220 years had to pass, and cinema had to be invented, before his ordeal, and his son’s impatient ambitions, inspired Alan Bennett to write his wonderful 1994 film script about the Regency Crisis.

There was a drop of 18.8% in auction sales, down to $16.9bn in 2016, reports Des O’Sullivan.

Old Masters, furniture, and Irish silver are featured in the first auction of the new season, writes Des O’Sullivan.   

This George III Italian white marble chimney piece from a collection in Ireland was a highlight at the Ronald Phillips stand at the Masterpiece Fair in London this week. 

Des O’Sullivan reports on a sale that includes gold medals celebrating the Battle of Hastings by Spink, London.

Billed by Dolan’s as the first of the big summer marquee auctions, the antiques and collectibles sale at Kelly’s Resort Hotel, Rosslare, at 1pm tomorrow offers much to interest collectors.

Six months after staggering through college, and confused as to my future prospects, I took a working post in southern Sweden. 

The variety contained in 2,000 lots at four days of auctions at Sheppards in Durrow, Co Laois next week is enormous.

Delays in obtaining an Irish property licence have forced the postponement of the sale of contents from Bantry House, due to have taken place on October 21.

Eoin English looks at the skilled conservation work now underway to restore the National Monument on Grand Parade ahead of the Easter Rising commemorations planned for Cork in 2016

NOT every house can boast a suite of tapestries given as a gift by the King of France to his future daughter-in-law, Marie-Antoinette.

Bookmakers will be taking flurries of bets on what the duke and duchess of Cambridge will choose to call the eagerly anticipated new prince or princess.

Where’d You Go, Bernadette

700 lots on offer, Des O’Driscoll reports

Viva La Revolution!

Lucy Worsley

Amy Winehouse is dating the son of legendary boxer and grilling machine inventor George Foreman.

MAPS of Ireland dating back as far as 1572, a rare George III stick barometer, antique jewellery and Regency furniture are just some of the items which will go under the hammer tomorrow, in what is being described as one of the most important auctions ever held in this country.

Three generations of an American family were wiped out when a chartered aircraft carrying them to a game reserve crashed into Mount Kenya, killing all 12 tourists and the two South African pilots.

Princess Margaret’s ashes are expected to be interred with the Queen Mother’s coffin in the George VI Memorial Chapel at Windsor.

The controversy over the Countess of Wessex has taken a new twist with a Government minister saying the Royal Family are "a bit bonkers".