Royal History Q&A: Sara Cockerill, author of Eleanor of Castile: The Shadow Queen
Eleanor of Castile Carolyn Harris: You have been researching Eleanor for Castile in your spare time for 10 years. How did you become...
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Carolyn Harris
Sep 15, 20141 min read
Interview: Why a Large Family Makes Sense For The Royals
The Royal Family on the Buckingham Palace balcony after the 2012 Trooping the Colour Parade I am quoted in Patricia Treble’s article “Why...
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Carolyn Harris
Sep 10, 20143 min read
The Royal Paintbox: Friday September 12 at 10pm ET on PBS
HRH The Prince of Wales during the filming of Royal Paintbox Royalty have acted as patrons to artists for centuries. Henry VIII and his...
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Carolyn Harris
Aug 23, 20143 min read
Royal Travelogue 5: Caernarfon Castle and the Princes of Wales
Caernarfon Castle In 1538, King Henry VIII of England received a report that Caernarfon Castle in Wales was “moche ruynous and ferre in...
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Carolyn Harris
Aug 16, 20143 min read
Royal Travelogue 4: The Queens Who Shaped Edinburgh’s Palace of Holyroodhouse
The Palace of Holyroodhouse The Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh is Queen Elizabeth II’s official residence in Scotland. Every year,...
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Carolyn Harris
Aug 14, 20142 min read
Royal Travelogue 3: The Royal Yacht Britannia’s Last Harbour
The Queen’s drawing room aboard Britannia Inside Britannia’s royal apartments, the modern world is forgotten. The Queen launched the ship...
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Carolyn Harris
Aug 7, 20143 min read
Royal Travelogue 2: “400 Years of Legal Piracy” Hamlet’s Castle Kronborg and Denmark’s Sound Dues
Kronborg Castle in Helsingør, Denmark “But what is your affair in Elsinore? We’ll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.” – Hamlet, Act...
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Carolyn Harris
Aug 6, 20142 min read
Royal Travelogue 1: Castles of Copenhagen
The Changing of the Guard outside the Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen Denmark is Europe’s oldest monarchy and the seaside capital,...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 24, 20141 min read
Magna Carta and the Development of Parliament
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester My latest article on the Magna Carta 2015 Canada website discusses the impact of Magna Carta on...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 17, 20143 min read
Friday Royal Read: Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts by James Anderson Winn
In Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts, Professor James Anderson Winn, author of The Poetry of War and John Dryden and His World, argues that...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 9, 20141 min read
Interview on Royal Finances: “Two-kitchen Kate’ stirs royal spending ruckus”
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and family dog Lupo at Kensington Palace. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s finances...
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Carolyn Harris
Jun 24, 20141 min read
The Truth About Royal Spending
Kensington Palace My column in today’s Ottawa Citizen corrects some longstanding misconceptions about Royal Finances, discussing the...
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Carolyn Harris
Feb 8, 20141 min read
The Queen’s Crumbling Palaces
The site of Greenwich Palace, favourite residence of King Henry VIII My column in this weekend’s edition of the Kingston Whig Standard...
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Carolyn Harris
Jan 2, 20140 min read
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Carolyn Harris
Dec 9, 20130 min read
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Carolyn Harris
Nov 6, 20131 min read
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang (Review)
While Cixi was interested in modernizing the rest of China, her court remained as it had been for centuries with eunuchs addressing the...
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Carolyn Harris
Oct 2, 20134 min read
The 7 Most Controversial Royal Christenings
The Duchess of Cambridge with the newborn Prince George of Cambridge in July, 2013 The christening of Prince George of Cambridge on...
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Carolyn Harris
Sep 27, 20135 min read
The Chapel Royal at St. James’s Palace from King Henry VIII to Prince George of Cambridge
St. James’s Palace in London Prince George of Cambridge will be christened by The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, at St. James’s...
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Carolyn Harris
Aug 13, 20131 min read
Why The Royal Family Should Take A Canadian Vacation
My most recent column in the Kingston Whig-Standard discusses why the current royal family should take a break from Balmoral one year and...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 30, 20134 min read
What to Expect at Prince George of Cambridge’s Christening
The Duchess of Cambridge leaving the hospital with Prince George of Cambridge on July 23, 2013 the day after his birth. The next big...
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