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Book News December 2020
*contains affiliate links* Hermine: an Empress in Exile: The untold story of the Kaiser’s second wife Paperback – 1 January 2021 (US) & 11 December 2020 (UK) Hermine Reuss of Greiz is perhaps...
View ArticleThe Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer Book Review
*contains affiliate links* The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain is the fourth book of its kind to be written by Ian Mortimer. The previous books have been on Medieval England, Elizabethan...
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Book News January 2021
*contains affiliate links* The Lives of Saint Constantina: Introduction, Translations, and Commentaries (Oxford Early Christian Texts) Hardcover – 4 November 2020 (UK) & 4 January 2021 (US)...
View ArticleExplore Sweden with HRH Crown Princess Victoria Book Review
Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden’s two-year plan to explore every Swedish province on foot has turned into an ode to Swedish magnificent natural beauty. Throughout the seasons, the Crown Princess...
View ArticleQueen Victoria and the Romanovs by Coryne Hall Book Review
*contains affiliate links* Queen Victoria’s relationship with the Romanovs began with the tragic tale of her aunt Juliane, whose disastrous marriage to Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia ended...
View ArticleThe Child of the Sun: Royal Fairy Tales and Essays edited by Silvia Irina...
*contains affiliate links* Elisabeth of Wied and her successor as Queen as Romania Marie of Edinburgh were both avid writers. Elisabeth wrote under the name Carmen Sylva while Marie Silvia Irina...
View ArticleElizabeth I: The Making of a Queen by Laura Brennan Book Review
One of the best-known Queens in history is Queen Elizabeth I of England, without a doubt. Many books have already been written about her and embarking on adding to that collection must be a daunting...
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Book News February 2021
*contains affiliate links* The Trouble with Women in Power: Leaders Who Dared to Change the World Hardcover – 26 November 2020 (UK) & 16 February 2021 (US) From Cleopatra to Margaret Thatcher, and...
View ArticleThe Habsburgs by Martyn Rady Book Review
*contains affiliate links* The Habsburgs now live in people’s imagination as those rulers with the large jaw who eventually were so inbred that they died out. Now, this is not entirely true, and their...
View ArticleBook Review: Anna Duchess of Cleves: The King’s Beloved Sister by Heather R....
Anna Duchess of Cleves: The King’s Beloved Sister is the first book from author Heather R. Darsie and has been well-received since it was published as a hardback in 2019. Amberley publishing has now...
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Book News March 2021
*contains affiliate links* Katherine Parr: Opportunist, Queen, Reformer: A Theological Perspective Hardcover –15 March 2021 (US) & 15 December 2020 (UK) Unlike other biographies, which have...
View ArticleThe Top Ten Royal and Aristocratic Memoirs
*contains affiliate links* This article was written by Carol. Royal memoirs have been a popular genre for a long time. Perhaps the earliest were those of Marguerite of Valois (1553-1615) and La Grande...
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Book News April 2021
*contains affiliate links* The Daughters of George III: Sisters and Princesses Paperback – 28 February 2021 (UK) & 28 April 2021 (US) In the dying years of the 18th century, the corridors of...
View ArticleThe Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication by Alexander Larman Book Review
*contains affiliate links* The abdication of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom shook the country to its core. Unable to marry the twice-divorced Wallis Simpson while also remaining as King and as...
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Book News May 2021
*contains affiliate links* Chronos Crime Chronicles – Jane Parker: The Downfall Of Two Tudor Queens? Paperback – 1 May 2021 (US) & 30 April 2021 (UK) Jane Parker, later Viscountess Rochford, was...
View ArticleTsarina: A Novel by Ellen Alpsten Book Review
*contains affiliate links* The origins of the future Catherine I of Russia are rather obscure. She was probably born as Marta Helena Skowrońska on 15 April 1684. Her parents died of the plague when she...
View ArticleThe Importance of Pawns by Keira Morgan Book Review
*contains affiliate links* The Importance of Pawns by Keira Morgan begins as Anne of Brittany, Duchess of Brittany and Queen of France, lays dying. After two marriages to Kings of France and many lost...
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Book News June 2021
*contains affiliate links* Queen Victoria: This Thorny Crown (Spiritual Lives) Hardcover – 8 June 2021 (US) & 8 April 2021 (UK) This biography evokes the pervasive importance of religion to Queen...
View ArticleHistoric Newspapers – William and Kate: A Royal Ten Years Review
*review copy* Can you believe it has been ten years since Prince William married Catherine Middleton in Westminster Abbey? It seems like only yesterday that we watched the fairytale wedding on TV!...
View ArticleBook review: Elizabeth I’s Last Favourite: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex...
*contains affiliate links* *Review copy* Sarah-Beth Watkins has written a number of biographies on well-known Tudors, and the latest on Robert Devereux follows her tried and tested format yet...
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