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...

Danish painter Laurits Tuxen's depiction of the wedding of Emperor Nicholas II and Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1894, two weeks...

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...

Portrait miniature by Nicholas Hilliard of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester (1543-1634), one of the most notorious women of...

The Duchess of Cambridge On April 29, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will celebrate their first anniversary. Catherine was the first...

Princess Elizabeth, accompanied by her sister, Princess Margaret, tests the steam whistle on the royal train during her 1947 tour of...

King Juan Carlos of Spain This past week, prominent members of the Spanish royal family have been injured in hunting accidents in...

Malmaison, Empress Josephine's favourite residence and a prominent setting in Sandra Gulland's Josephine B. trilogy. Despite the ominous...

Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor as a bridesmaid in her cousin Prince William's wedding in 2011. She traveled in the procession with...

Despite their immense wealth, patronage and influence, both women experienced significant mistreatment in their marriages as Marie’s...

King Mswati III of Swaziland, participating in the 2006 Reed Dance, a ceremony where unmarried women pay tribute to his mother and...

Pachter's 1988 pastel drawing of Queen Elizabeth II Trooping the Colour astride a moose. The image was part of a series of landscapes...

Catching up on some reading on the book shaped bench in the lobby of the British Library in London, 2009. As a historian, I am often...

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...

Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani, daughter of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar. Sheikha Mayassa is the head of the Qatar Museums...

The Gatehouse at Sudeley Castle near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. Henry VIII's sixth wife Katherine Parr livedthere during her...

Peter Phillips, son of Princess Anne and eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II attending the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing with his...

View of the entrance to Kensington Palace taken in January, 2009, before the recent refurbishment of the public galleries. The state...

Joyal argues that the appointment of Canadian born Governors General has resulted in a “hybrid” system where the Queen actually reigns...