The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall to Visit Toronto
The Duchess of Cornwall and Prince William at the 2009 Trooping of the Colour ceremony in London. The upcoming jubilee tour of Canada by...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 27, 20123 min read
The Queen Tours Wales, The Setting of Significant 20th Century Royal Visits
Llandaff Cathedral, seat of the Bishop of Llandaff, Head of the Church of Wales. The Queen attended a Thanksgiving service for her...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 25, 20123 min read
The Queen Reopens the Cutty Sark in Greenwich
The Cutty Sark in February, 2012 as the repairs and restoration neared completion. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 24, 20122 min read
The Medieval Book Reviews 2: Matilda, Queen of the Conqueror by Tracy Borman
As regent of Normandy during William’s conquest of England, Matilda would have been too busy ruling her husband’s fractious domains to...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 21, 20123 min read
Queen Elizabeth II’s 86th birthday
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh leaving the Royal York hotel in Toronto on a tour of Canada in 2010. The Queen...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 19, 20123 min read
How the Marriage of Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly Transformed Monaco
Grace Kelly in the wedding dress she wore to the religious ceremony on April 19, 1956. Fifty-six years ago today, on April 19, 1956, film...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 18, 20121 min read
The Tudor Book Reviews 3: Wicked Women of Tudor England by Retha Warnicke
Portrait miniature by Nicholas Hilliard of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester (1543-1634), one of the most notorious women of...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 15, 20123 min read
King Juan Carlos of Spain and the History of Royalty on the Hunt
King Juan Carlos of Spain This past week, prominent members of the Spanish royal family have been injured in hunting accidents in...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 12, 20121 min read
The Kings’ Mistresses by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith (Book Review)
Despite their immense wealth, patronage and influence, both women experienced significant mistreatment in their marriages as Marie’s...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 6, 20122 min read
The Medieval Book Reviews 1: The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc by Nancy Goldstone
Statue of Joan of Arc outside the Cathedral at Rheims where Charles VII was crowned. In most accounts of the Hundred Years War, Joan is...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 2, 20122 min read
The Duchess of Cornwall to be Patron of the Katherine Parr Quincentenary Festival at Sudeley Castle
The Gatehouse at Sudeley Castle near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Henry VIII's sixth wife Katherine Parr livedthere during her...
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Carolyn Harris
Mar 25, 20122 min read
The Tudor Book Reviews 2: Bessie Blount, the King’s Mistress by Elizabeth Norton
Norton does a masterful job of interpreting documents pertaining to the Blount family, Henry Fitzroy, and other sixteenth century court...
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Carolyn Harris
Mar 23, 20122 min read
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge Makes Her First Public Speech at the East Anglia Children’s Hospice in Ipswitch
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge meet with President Barack Obama of the United States and his wife Michelle. Since becoming a member of...
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Carolyn Harris
Mar 20, 20122 min read
The Tudor Book Reviews 1: Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile
One of the great strengths of Sister Queens is Fox’s attention to the settings were these two princesses spent their lives. She has...
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Carolyn Harris
Mar 16, 20123 min read
Royals at the Olympics: The Involvement of European Royalty in the Modern Olympic Games
King Edward VII opening the 1908 London Olympic Games at White City Stadium Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh,...
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Carolyn Harris
Mar 10, 20123 min read
Prince Harry in Jamaica, the Duchess of Cambridge in Leicester and the Apprenticeship of a New Generation of Royals
Prince Harry and Kate Middleton (later the Duchess of Cambridge) attending Prince William's 2008 Investiture into the Order of the Garter...
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