“I didn’t want it to be a straight biography,” he says ... Amazing, amazing. Queen Victoria, who was also born royal, throughout her life she never once, before sitting down, looked ...
In Robert Hardman's new biography about King Charles ... In the past, royal diaries have been released into the public sphere, including that of the late Queen Victoria. Last year, the late Queen's ...
The father of Alice (in Wonderland) was Henry George Liddell (1811-98), a skyrocket of a Victorian public figure who headed ...
A remarkable, inspiring, and influential political, financial, philanthropic, and religious figure, Montefiore led a life ...
Oakley met Queen Victoria, who called her a "very clever little girl." She wowed the British papers. Despite her success, a rivalry with a fellow sharpshooter,Lillian Smith, had grown so tense ...
How much research did you do before you felt confident tackling this story? I first stumbled across these relationships while ...
Although it was Oakley whom Queen Victoria praised when they met, a London illustrated newspaper chose to run a drawing of Smith being presented to Her Majesty instead. Most galling of all ...
Victoria de Marichalar y Borbón, daughter of Infanta Elena, said the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had ‘fled’ the ...
Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway is continuing her sick leave, the Royal House of Norway says. All about Crown Princess ...
She has written for publications in the US and Australia. Julia is currently writing a biography of Queen Victoria for Random House, New York and is also a columnist for The New York Times.
These anecdotal portraits of the six children of King George V and Queen Mary are remarkable for the insipid personalities that emerge, as drawn by Hough, author of Louis and Victoria: The First ...