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...

I will be participating in a Postmedia online chat about the Duchess of Cambridge’s pregnancy and other significant royal news items from...

My column in the Saturday Kingston Whig Standard discusses how the monarchy may change in the coming years. The Queen’s children and...

Queen Elizabeth II was admitted to the King Edward VII hospital in London today with gastroenteritis. I discussed the Queen’s health on...

In a column for today’s Kingston Whig-Standard, I discuss why the recent criticism concerning the Duchess of Cambridge’s work ethic,...

The earliest surviving portrait of King Richard III, dating from 1520 Researchers at the University of Leicester announced yesterday that...

My op-ed in today’s Ottawa Citizen compares the Royal Succession Bills of 2013 to the 1701 Act of Settlement. On Thursday January 31, the...

My guest post today on the Bloomberg Echoes: Dispatches from Economic History blog analyzes the what inheritance the Duke and Duchess of...

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...

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands announced today that she will abdicate on April 30, 2013, allowing her...

I will be discussing the forthcoming abdication of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands at 6:30pm EST on the CTV News Channel today (January...

My op-ed in today’s Globe and Mail online discusses the history of royalty and military service in both the United Kingdom and Canada....

The current practice favours the succession rights of younger brothers over their elder sisters. As Queen Elizabeth II’s eldest child,...

For all my Canadian readers, I will be discussing Prince Harry’s return from Afghanistan at 12:30 EST today (January 22, 2013) on the CTV...

The Great Survivors is an excellent introduction to the full scope of current European royal monarchy. Peter Conradi places all the...

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in Canada in 2010 Queen Elizabeth II issued new Letters Patent on December 31,...

Bringing Them Up Royal: How the Royals Raised Their Children from 1066 to the Present Day is an excellent subject for a royal history...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at a Gala in honour of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London St. James’s Palace announced today that the...

Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip on their wedding day, November 20, 1947. On November 20, 2012, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip,...

View of the Tower of London from the Thames showing Traitor's Gate During the wee hours of November 6, 2012, Guy Fawkes night, an...