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Carolyn Harris
Aug 11, 20122 min read
The Diamond Jubilee Book Reviews 7: God Save the Queen: The Spiritual Heart of the Monarchy by Ian Bradley
Canterbury Cathedral, seat of the Church of England Bradley provides the full historical context for debates concerning the religious...
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Carolyn Harris
Aug 10, 20121 min read
The Monarchy and Québec
My op-ed about Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois`s recent dismissive remarks on the role of the monarchy in Québec was published in...
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Carolyn Harris
Aug 7, 20124 min read
The Royal Regatta: Royalty, Sailing and the Olympic Games
The future King Constantine II of Greece sailing in 1960. He won the gold medal in sailing (Dragon class) at the 1960 Summer Olympics in...
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Carolyn Harris
Aug 2, 20123 min read
The Royal History of Canada’s Maritime Provinces Round 5: Following in the Footsteps of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Dalvay-by-the-Sea
Dalvay-by-the-Sea on the North Shore of Prince Edward Island After traveling to Halifax, Cape Breton Island, Charlottetown and Cavendish,...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 31, 20121 min read
The Victorian Book Reviews 2: Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy by Paul Thomas Murphy
At 525 pages plus footnotes, bibliography and index, Shooting Victoria is longer than most popularly published works of royal history but...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 30, 20124 min read
Zara Phillips and 100 Years of Royal Athletes in the Olympic Equestrian Events
Zara Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne and eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth II’s granddaughter, Zara...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 27, 20124 min read
The Queen Concludes Her Jubilee Tour of the UK in the New Forest and Isle of Wight
Osborne House on the Isle of Wight in 1910, after the former royal residence had been converted into a Naval College. With the 2012...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 23, 20124 min read
The Royal History of Canada’s Maritime Provinces Round 4: Royalty in the Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery
Green Gables in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, the home of Lucy Maud Montgomery's MacNeill cousins and the inspiration for the Cuthbert...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 22, 20122 min read
The Diamond Jubilee Book Reviews 6: Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King by Penny Junor
Junor provides unique examples of how this life in the public eye both expanded and limited William’s experiences. While the publicity...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 19, 20122 min read
The Medieval Book Reviews 4: Richard III: A Life by David Baldwin
After thirty years of Tudor propaganda designed to blacken the late King Richard III’s reputation, Cardinal Wolsey was incredulous that...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 17, 20123 min read
The Royal History of Canada’s Maritime Provinces Round 3: Queen Victoria and Canada’s Confederation
The Confederation Players re-enact the debates surrounding the Charlottetown Conference in 1864 in front of Province House Charlottetown,...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 15, 20121 min read
The Tudor Book Reviews 5: Mary Rose: Tudor Princess, Queen of France, the Extraordinary Life of Henry VIII’s Sister by David Loades
Loades argues that within this context, Mary’s decision to marry Suffolk was neither emotional nor impulsive but instead combined her...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 14, 20121 min read
The Romanov Book Reviews 3: A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia by Russell E. Martin
Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich Selects His Bride by Grigory Sedov Martin judges Sedov’s painting to be the most accurate representation of the...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 13, 20123 min read
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s Honeymoon Photographs, Princess Diana and the Royal Image
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on Canada Day, 2011, some weeks after their honeymoon in the Seychelles. In the past week, the...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 10, 20124 min read
The Royal History of Canada’s Maritime Provinces Round 2: Honouring the King at Fort Louisbourg
The reconstructed stronghold at Fort Louisbourg, Cape Breton, which housed the governor, bachelor officers and ordinary soldiers. The...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 9, 20122 min read
The Tudor Book Reviews 4: The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story from Inside the Vatican by Catherine Fletcher
In The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story from Inside the Vatican, Catherine Fletcher presents the negotiations surrounding the...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 4, 20124 min read
The Royal History of Canada’s Maritime Provinces Round 1: Hanoverian Halifax
View of Halifax from Fort George on Citadel Hill. The city's early history was shaped by the eighteenth century monarchy. I spent the...
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Carolyn Harris
Jun 14, 20122 min read
“The Succession Prospects of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (1895-1918)” now available from Canadian Slavonic Papers
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaeva, eldest daughter of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia in 1913. I am pleased to announce the publication of my...
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Carolyn Harris
Jun 11, 20123 min read
Prince Philip at 91 and the Historical Role of a Reigning Queen’s Consort
Prince Philip in 2008. “When King George died, [biographer Giles Brandreth] asked Prince Philip, “did you know what to expect?” “No,” he...
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Carolyn Harris
Jun 8, 20121 min read
Historical Fiction Roundup 5: Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Bring Up The Bodies is a compelling dramatization of the fall of Anne Boleyn. The use of Thomas Cromwell as the narrator and Mantel’s...
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