The Queen’s former gynecologist, Dr. The Queen’s birth attendants remained exclusively female during Tudor times. Queen Victoria and her youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice Queen Victoria made further changes to the Victoria also popularized the use of childbirth anesthetic by requesting the newly invented chloroform The future Queen’s younger sister, Princess Margaret also arrived in complicated conditions.

My new article in the Canadian Encyclopedia is about Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022 including Click here to read Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee – 2022 in the Canadian Encyclopedia

the past seventy years includes a chapter that I wrote about Royal Tours of Canada in the Reign of Queen

I discussed Queen Elizabeth II’s COVID-19 diagnosis and popular interest in the Queen’s health with Lucia Stein at ABC News Australia Click here to read “Queen Elizabeth II’s COVID-19 diagnosis casts a shadow

I discussed Canada’s plans for Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee with Janet Davison at CBC News for Platinum Jubilee sparks range of ways to mark Elizabeth’s 70 years as Queen” at CBC News

I discussed the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and the history of royal funeral traditions with Click here to listen to Britain Bids Farewell to Queen Elizabeth II on CBC The Current Click here to listen to Carolyn Harris on The Queen’s Funeral on Canada Talks Click here to read “The Queen’s funeral

Click here to read "Boris Johnson said Queen Elizabeth II had bone cancer.

I discussed the Queen’s absence from the Remembrance Sunday ceremony in London in an interview with CTV

Hugo Vickers, author of biographies of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Princess Andrew of Greece The Quest for Queen Mary is a fascinating and entertaining look at royal court culture during Queen I found Forsting’s analysis of Isabel II especially interesting as she was a contemporary of Queen Victoria While Queen Victoria’s upbringing was left to her mother, Isabel II’s education was the subject of widespread Victoria because of her turbulent personal life.

I compared popular perceptions of Queen Elizabeth II and the monarchy in 1992 – the year the Queen considered to be her annus horribilus – and 2021 in an interview with ABC News Australia Click here to read Queen

Since Queen Elizabeth II’s 1953 televised coronation ceremony is so well known, a number of journalists George of Denmark, consort of Anne, and Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, consort of Victoria, were both junior He explained to his biographer, Gyles Brandreth, “Queen Victoria was an executive sovereign, following The Prince Consort was effectively Victoria’s private secretary. But after Victoria the monarchy changed. It became an institution.

University of Toronto Review:  Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone was the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria and she was encouraged to write down her memories. She challenges the popular perception of the elderly Queen Victoria as dour and humourless, remembering Borrowed from Robarts Library Review: A fascinating collection of scholarly articles about the role of Queens Queen Elizabeth I is usually the sole exception to this pattern as she famously encouraged the piracy