Grand Duchess Olga during her last years in Canada Grand Duchess Olga, younger sister of Russia’s last Czar, Nicholas II, lived in Canada...

Eleanor of Castile Carolyn Harris: You have been researching Eleanor for Castile in your spare time for 10 years. How did you become...

The Royal Family on the Buckingham Palace balcony after the 2012 Trooping the Colour Parade I am quoted in Patricia Treble’s article “Why...

HRH The Prince of Wales during the filming of Royal Paintbox Royalty have acted as patrons to artists for centuries. Henry VIII and his...

Caernarfon Castle In 1538, King Henry VIII of England received a report that Caernarfon Castle in Wales was “moche ruynous and ferre in...

The Palace of Holyroodhouse The Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh is Queen Elizabeth II’s official residence in Scotland. Every year,...

The Queen’s drawing room aboard Britannia Inside Britannia’s royal apartments, the modern world is forgotten. The Queen launched the ship...

Kronborg Castle in Helsingør, Denmark “But what is your affair in Elsinore? We’ll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.” – Hamlet, Act...

The Changing of the Guard outside the Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen Denmark is Europe’s oldest monarchy and the seaside capital,...

Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester My latest article on the Magna Carta 2015 Canada website discusses the impact of Magna Carta on...

In Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts, Professor James Anderson Winn, author of The Poetry of War and John Dryden and His World, argues that...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and family dog Lupo at Kensington Palace. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s finances...

Kensington Palace My column in today’s Ottawa Citizen corrects some longstanding misconceptions about Royal Finances, discussing the...

The site of Greenwich Palace, favourite residence of King Henry VIII My column in this weekend’s edition of the Kingston Whig Standard...

While Cixi was interested in modernizing the rest of China, her court remained as it had been for centuries with eunuchs addressing the...

The Duchess of Cambridge with the newborn Prince George of Cambridge in July, 2013 The christening of Prince George of Cambridge on...

St. James’s Palace in London Prince George of Cambridge will be christened by The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, at St. James’s...

My most recent column in the Kingston Whig-Standard discusses why the current royal family should take a break from Balmoral one year and...