5 “Modern” Royal Parenting Trends That Are Actually Centuries Old
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in Ottawa for Canada Day in 2011 With the Duchess of Cambridge – better known as Kate Middleton – in...
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Carolyn Harris
May 21, 20130 min read
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Carolyn Harris
May 18, 20131 min read
Victoria Day: A Uniquely Canadian Holiday
Queen Victoria at the time of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 My column in today’s Ottawa Citizen discusses the history of Victoria Day in...
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Carolyn Harris
May 16, 20135 min read
Miami and a Murder Mystery: The Duke of Windsor as Governor of the Bahamas 1940-1945
Click here for Part 1 of this article: Royalty and the Atlantic World 4: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s Arrival in the Bahamas in 1940...
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Carolyn Harris
May 8, 20134 min read
Representing the Queen: The Prince of Wales to Attend Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 2013
The Prince of Wales Buckingham Palace announced this week that the Prince of Wales will represent his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, at the...
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Carolyn Harris
May 3, 20131 min read
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
May 2, 20131 min read
2013-2014 Courses on Monarchy Now Open For Enrollment at the University of Toronto, School of Continuing Studies
During the 2013-2014 academic year, I will be teaching two courses related to the History of Monarchy at the University of Toronto,...
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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 21, 20134 min read
Why The Queen’s Annual Birthday Celebrations Take Place On Different Days Around The World
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh in Canada in 2010 Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 87th birthday today, April 21, 2013. The...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 12, 20134 min read
Princess Alexandra of Cambridge? The History of a Potential Royal Baby Name
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge celebrating Canada Day in Ottawa in 2011 As of last week, British bookmakers slashed the odds to 2-1...
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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
Apr 5, 20131 min read
My Bloomberg Echoes Article about King George I, the South Sea Bubble and the Constitutional Monarchy
King George I My article in today’s edition of Bloomberg Echoes, the Bloomberg News economic history blog, discusses the role of the...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 2, 20134 min read
Royalty and the Atlantic World 4: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s Arrival in the Bahamas in 1940
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrive in the Bahamas in 1940 On August 18, 1940, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived in Nassau, the...
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Carolyn Harris
Mar 27, 20135 min read
The Richard III Funeral Controversy and 5 Unknown Royal Grave Sites
The earliest surviving portrait of Richard III The controversy surrounding the burial of Richard III, whose remains were discovered last...
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Carolyn Harris
Mar 18, 20135 min read
Royalty and the Atlantic World 3: The Wreck of the Ten Sail
Memorial stones on Grand Cayman Island for the 6 sailors who drowned in the 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail In 1994, Queen Elizabeth II and...
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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 10, 20135 min read
Royalty and the Atlantic World 2: Napoleon, Josephine and the French Caribbean
Artist's interpretation of Napoleon Bonaparte courting the widowed Rose de Beauharnais, who he would later rename Josephine On May 20,...
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Carolyn Harris
Mar 8, 20131 min read
The Queen’s Health and the Future of the Monarchy
My column in the Saturday Kingston Whig Standard discusses how the monarchy may change in the coming years. The Queen’s children and...
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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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