My forthcoming book “Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada” is available for pre-order

Royal History Q&A: Sara Cockerill, author of Eleanor of Castile: The Shadow Queen

Royal Travelogue 4: The Queens Who Shaped Edinburgh’s Palace of Holyroodhouse

Friday Royal Read: Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts by James Anderson Winn

Friday Royal Read: John Buchan: Model Governor General by J. William Galbraith

Weekend Royal News Roundup: Prince William Celebrates His 32nd birthday and June 28th is the 100th anniversary of the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Friday Royal Read: Hereward by Peter Rex

Friday Royal Read: The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport

Friday Royal Read: Censoring Queen Victoria by Yvonne Ward

A King’s Ransom by Sharon Kay Penman (Historical Fiction Review)

Empress of the Night: A Novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak (Historical Fiction Review)

Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen by Alison Weir (Review)

Monarchy and the End of Empire: The House of Windsor, the British Government and the Postwar Commonwealth by Philip Murphy (Review)

The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria’s Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley (Review)

In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn by Sarah Morris and Natalie Grueninger (Review)

My book chapter, “Royalty at Rideau Hall: Lord Lorne, Princess Louise and the Emergence of the Canadian Crown” published today

Red Fortress: History and Illusion in the Kremlin by Catherine Merridale (Review)

The Top Ten Royal History Books of 2013

The Diary of Olga Romanov: Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution by Helen Azar (Review)

The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan (Review)