Harry: The People’s Prince by Chris Hutchins (Review)
The sections of Harry: The People’s Prince concerning Harry’s military service are the strongest chapters of the book. Hutchins combines...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 22, 20131 min read
The Tudor Book Reviews 12: Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen by Amy Licence
The final chapter of Elizabeth of York is the strongest because the best documented year of the Queen’s life was the last one before she...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 13, 20131 min read
The Tudor Book Reviews 11: The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look At England’s Most Notorious Queen by Susan Bordo
In the reign of Mary I, the stepdaughter who blamed Anne for the collapse of her parents’ marriage, the queen was a scheming temptress,...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 9, 20131 min read
The Medieval Book Reviews 7: Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses by Sarah Gristwood
Through her comparative study of the seven most prominent women of the Wars of the Roses, Gristwood reveals the abrupt changes in the...
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Carolyn Harris
Mar 11, 20131 min read
The Imperial Russian Book Reviews 5: Road to Ekaterinburg: Nicholas and Alexandra’s Daughters 1913-1918 by ECS Banks
By synthesizing the known source material about the daily lives of the Grand Duchesses and analyzing their reading material and cultural...
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Carolyn Harris
Mar 6, 20131 min read
The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women, Power and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance (Book Review)
Frieda also places the entire Borgia family in context. Pope Alexander VI is famous as the corrupt figure whose excesses brought the...
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Carolyn Harris
Feb 20, 20131 min read
Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother edited by William Shawcross (Review)
The outbreak of the First World War was difficult for this united family as it meant the departure of Lady Elizabeth’s elder brothers for...
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Carolyn Harris
Feb 3, 20131 min read
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: Titanic’s First Class Passengers and Their World by Hugh Brewster (Review)
Like many of her fellow first class passengers on the Titanic, Lady Duff Gordon was a self made entrepreneur who had risen from humble...
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Carolyn Harris
Jan 29, 20132 min read
Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten by Pamela Hicks (Review)
The King, a well known womanizer, at first assumed that his wife’s cousin had fathered a child out of wedlock and offered to help keep...
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Carolyn Harris
Jan 21, 20131 min read
The Great Survivors: How Monarchy Made It Into the Twenty-First Century by Peter Conradi (Review)
The Great Survivors is an excellent introduction to the full scope of current European royal monarchy. Peter Conradi places all the...
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Carolyn Harris
Jan 15, 20131 min read
The Victorian Book Reviews 3: Bertie: A Life of Edward VII by Jane Ridley
The future Edward VII’s evolution from a self indulgent Prince to a mature King is at the heart of Ridley’s well researched and well...
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Carolyn Harris
Jan 7, 20131 min read
The Tudor Book Reviews 10: Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings by Alison Weir
Mary Boleyn: Mistress of Kings brings together the scattered and often contradictory source material about King Henry VIII’s shadowy...
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Carolyn Harris
Dec 31, 20121 min read
Bringing Them Up Royal: How the Royals Raised Their Children From 1066 to the Present Day by David Cohen (Review)
Bringing Them Up Royal: How the Royals Raised Their Children from 1066 to the Present Day is an excellent subject for a royal history...
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Carolyn Harris
Dec 29, 20122 min read
Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires by Justin C. Vovk (Review)
While most consorts of deposed monarchs are blamed for their husbands’ political failings, Dona remained a popular figure despite the...
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Carolyn Harris
Dec 2, 20121 min read
The Top Ten Royal History Books of 2013
Since founding the Royal Historian website in February, I have had the pleasure of reading and reviewing numerous of royal history books....
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Carolyn Harris
Nov 6, 20121 min read
The Imperial Russian Book Reviews 4: Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith
The publication of Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy will hopefully contribute to more balanced teaching of the...
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Carolyn Harris
Nov 2, 20122 min read
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines-And Future by Karen Elliott House (Review)
Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, the first King of Saudi Arabia House also interviews Princes and Princesses from the House of Al Saud, the men and...
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Carolyn Harris
Oct 21, 20122 min read
The Medieval Book Reviews 6: Margaret of York: The Diabolical Duchess by Christine Weightman
In contrast to the Duke and Duchess of York, who appear to have lost significant revenues from indifferent management of their lands and...
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Carolyn Harris
Oct 12, 20121 min read
Driving the Saudis: A Chauffeur’s Tale of the World’s Richest Princesses by Jayne Amelia Larson (Review)
Larson’s conclusion that the princesses have enormous material wealth but little social freedom or autonomy will be familiar to readers...
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Carolyn Harris
Oct 4, 20123 min read
Ballerina: Sex, Scandal and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection by Deirdre Kelly (Review)
King Louis XIV performing the role of Apollo in the 1663 Ballet de la Nuit. When the King stopped performing in middle age, he continued...
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