Queen Victoria at the time of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 My column in today’s Ottawa Citizen discusses the history of Victoria Day in Canada. There is no holiday in the English speaking world like Victoria Day, which honours Queen Victoria as

I will be discussing the history of Victoria Day in Canada with Matt Holmes on AM 900 CHML talk radio

’s visit consists of two days in Vancouver on May 16 and 17 and two days in the provincial capital, Victoria Prince Andrew, the Duke of York In Victoria, the Duke of York will be chief of  the 150th Victoria Highland While in Victoria, the Duke of York will also dine with Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon and present The Duke’s presence in British Columbia for the Victoria Day long weekend,  which is the Queen’s official Other members of the royal family previously held this appointment including Queen Victoria’s son-in-law

The house contained shabby furnishings dating from the Victorian era and was infested with termites. Churchill was dismayed when the Duke of Windsor appeared to question Great Britain’s ability to achieve victory

of Wales Buckingham Palace announced this week that the Prince of Wales will represent his mother, Queen The decision to send the Prince of Wales to Sri Lanka as the Queen’s representative in 2013 demonstrates In 2012, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh toured the United Kingdom in honour of the Diamond Jubilee The Prince of Wales’s representation of the Queen at the 2013 CHOGM is part of the broader pattern. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother lived to age of 101 and there is no reason to believe that the current

Willem-Alexander and Maxima, the new King and Queen of the Netherlands attending the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Daniel Westling in 2010. discusses the challenges facing the new King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, who succeeded his mother, Queen article in the Kingston Whig-Standard Click here to read my interview with Janet Davison of CBC.ca about Queen

Queen Elizabeth II’s consort, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, arrived in Toronto today, (April

The final chapter of Elizabeth of York is the strongest because the best documented year of the Queen Elizabeth’s accounts in the last year of her life reveal an active queen consort whose reputation for As Queen, Elizabeth of York is less well documented than future generations of Tudor women but Amy Licence illustration on playing cards to a broad popular audience in Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen

Queen Victoria with her son, Edward VII (who was married to Alexandra of Denmark), her granddaughter, Queen Victoria’s eldest son, the future King Edward VII, married the most famous Alexandra in British The marriage was immensely popular with Queen Victoria’s subjects. The future Queen Alexandra as Princess of Wales While none of Queen Victoria’s daughters received Alexandra Other descendants of Queen Victoria named Alexandra include Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,

Cecily Neville narrowly missed her opportunity to become queen when her husband Richard of York was killed wives, mother and daughters of England’s last Plantagenet Kings set precedents for the famous reigning queens

revived popular interest in modern analysis of the bones in the urn but both Westminster Abbey and Queen Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great “Boadicea Haranguing the Britons” by John Opie 3) Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni The Celtic Queen fought her last battle against the Romans in 60 or 61 AD and is believed The precise location of the battle and the Queen’s final resting place in unknown. Montfort Edward II receiving the English Crown 5) Edward II King Edward II was deposed by his wife, Queen

stones on Grand Cayman Island for the 6 sailors who drowned in the 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail In 1994, Queen The royal visit to Grand Cayman by the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh in 1994 commemorated one of the most