“The book is a fascinating source of well researched information and a great addition to the shelves of royalists and historians alike. Trying to cram 1,000 years worth of knowledge into one book is no mean feat and Harris does it with flair, making the information easily digested.”
Click here to read the review of Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting in History of Royals Magazine
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Click here to read “How Kings and Queens Raised Their Children” at Medievalists.net
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King Edward III, who reigned from 1327-1377. The descendants of his five sons fought against each other in the Wars of the Roses.
In my recent article for Medievalists.net, I discuss medieval royal parents who made decisions that continue to shape the lives of royal children today. From Edgar the Peaceable and Elfrida, who created a defined royal family in the public eye more than one thousand years ago to Henry III and Eleanor Provence who popularized Edward, Beatrice and Margaret as royal names to Edward III and Philippa of Hainault, whose son Edward, the Black Prince was the first heir to the throne to become Duke of Cornwall, aspects of medieval royal parenting continue to be influential for the royal family in the twenty-first century.
For more about royal parents through the centuries, pick up a copy of my new book, Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting
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On June 21, there will be an afternoon tea&royal parenting talk followed by a book signing at Fulford Place museum in Brockville from 2-4pm. See the Brockville Recorder and Times for more information, including ticket prices.
On June 22, I will be signing books at Chapters Rideau in Ottawa from 12-2pm. More details are available here. All are welcome!
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Coronation portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. June 2, 1953
Today is the 64th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation on June 2, 1953. As I discuss in my latest article for the Dundurn Press blog, the decision to televise the ceremony was controversial at the time (a debate dramatized in the first season of the recent Netflix series, The Crown).
The Queen’s ultimate decision to invite the BBC into Westminster Abbey to televise the coronation allowed the Commonwealth to share in the event and made the television a household item. As I discuss in the article, the Queen continues to make use of new technologies to publicize royal events and philanthropy.
Click here to read “The Queen’s Coronation on Camera” at Dundurn Press
by If you’re in Kingston, Ontario on Friday, May 26, visit the Novel Idea bookstore between 2-4pm. I will be signing copies of my latest book, Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte arrive in Canada
I discussed my new book, Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting on The Social. The interview covered how royal children are educated, the impact of marriages to foreign royalty on the upbringing of royal children and why the same names are chosen again and again for princes and princesses.
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Prince Harry at the Invictus Games in London, 2014
Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
“When Charles married again in 2005, it was to Camilla Parker Bowles, who had been involved with Charles for years and divorced from her first husband a decade earlier.
“That’s been widely seen as a softening of attitudes toward members of the Royal Family marrying divorcees,” says Harris.
Other royal families in Europe are “even more relaxed about the whole question of who’s a suitable spouse for royalty,” says Harris, noting, for example, that Crown Prince Haakon of Norway married a single mother.
Harris, whose book Raising Royalty: 1,000 years of Royal Parenting was just released, sees whomever Harry marries as being part of a streamlined Royal Family, a move that was signalled particularly in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012.”
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A 19th century illustration imagining Queen Elfrida welcoming her stepson King Edward the Martyr to her home, moments before his murder by one of her henchmen.
My Mother’s Day article in Smithsonian Magazine discusses the medieval English royal mothers who feature in the first few chapters of my book, Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting
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