By synthesizing the known source material about the daily lives of the Grand Duchesses and analyzing their reading material and cultural...

Artist's interpretation of Napoleon Bonaparte courting the widowed Rose de Beauharnais, who he would later rename Josephine On May 20,...

My column in the Saturday Kingston Whig Standard discusses how the monarchy may change in the coming years. The Queen’s children and...

Frieda also places the entire Borgia family in context. Pope Alexander VI is famous as the corrupt figure whose excesses brought the...

My column in today’s Ottawa Citizen discusses the increased political scrutiny that the Prince of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Prince...

1882 painting of King Muhammad XII of Granada surrendering to King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile after the Fall of...

In a column for today’s Kingston Whig-Standard, I discuss why the recent criticism concerning the Duchess of Cambridge’s work ethic,...

The outbreak of the First World War was difficult for this united family as it meant the departure of Lady Elizabeth’s elder brothers for...

Caroline Mathilde’s bold decision to take control over her personal and political destiny may appear unusual for a Princess raised to...

The earliest surviving portrait of King Richard III, dating from 1520 Researchers at the University of Leicester announced yesterday that...

I will be discussing the authentication of King Richard III’s remains on the CTV news channel today (February 4, 2013) at 1:10pm EST and...

My op-ed in today’s Ottawa Citizen compares the Royal Succession Bills of 2013 to the 1701 Act of Settlement. On Thursday January 31, the...

My guest post today on the Bloomberg Echoes: Dispatches from Economic History blog analyzes the what inheritance the Duke and Duchess of...

The King, a well known womanizer, at first assumed that his wife’s cousin had fathered a child out of wedlock and offered to help keep...

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands announced today that she will abdicate on April 30, 2013, allowing her...

My op-ed in today’s Globe and Mail online discusses the history of royalty and military service in both the United Kingdom and Canada....

The current practice favours the succession rights of younger brothers over their elder sisters. As Queen Elizabeth II’s eldest child,...

The Great Survivors is an excellent introduction to the full scope of current European royal monarchy. Peter Conradi places all the...

Princess Margriet of the Netherlands Celebrates Her 70th Birthday on January 19. Please see my article in the Ottawa Citizen about her...

The future Edward VII’s evolution from a self indulgent Prince to a mature King is at the heart of Ridley’s well researched and well...