
Elizabeth Jane Timms
Elizabeth Jane Timms is a royal historian, writer, historical consultant and research professional. An acknowledged expert on British and European royalty, she speaks on matters royal historical for television and radio, including on historic royal weddings at Windsor for BBC Radio Berkshire prior to the first Royal Wedding (2018). She regularly writes for magazines, journals, newsletters and the web. As a historical consultant, she responds to a wide range of enquiries from media to private individuals, as well as for books, talks and research projects. She has been an active contributor to the academic royal journal Royalty Digest Quarterly since 2012. She specializes in Queen Victoria's family and is an authority on Russia's last Tsarina, Alexandra Feodorovna. (1872-1918). She joined the team of freelance writers for the magazine History of Royals in 2016. She has also written for the European Royal History Journal. She writes a popular blog as resident historian for Royal Central, the web's most popular site on the British Royal Family and the Monarchies of Europe. Currently, she is a freelance contributor to Tudor Life magazine. She wrote a series on Mozart for the Prague Post (2017-2018) and writes and researches on Mozart; her two-part series on Mozart in London appeared in the Newsletter of the Friends of Mozart Society, New York City (2016). She has been an active member of many heritage societies, such as The Georgian Group. She was elected a member of the Royal Historical Society in 2017 and is an honorary member of the Tudor Society. She is a poet and a member of Oxford University Poetry Society. Her poetry is forthcoming or has appeared in various literary journals and magazines, including The Oxonian Review, Coldnoon: International Journal of Travel Writing & Travelling Cultures, North of Oxford Journal, Cornish Story Magazine, Nine Muses Poetry and elsewhere. She lives in rural Oxfordshire.
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Queen Victoria’s King Charles spaniel: Dash
‘Islay is still plagued by him every evening—a thing which he much enjoys—and constantly begs for...
Blog PostsElizabeth Jane Timms21st Aug 2018 -
The personal jewellery of the last Tsarina, Alexandra Feodorovna
The personal jewellery of the last Tsarina of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918) provides a living, tangible timeline of her private life,...
Blog PostsElizabeth Jane Timms14th Aug 2018 -
Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee Statue at Windsor
‘Never, never can I forget this brilliant year… so full of marvellous kindness, loyalty & devotion of so many millions which...
Blog PostsElizabeth Jane Timms13th Aug 2018 -
An Imperial Russian summer at Windsor
The visit of the future Tsar Nicholas II to Queen Victoria in the summer of 1894 has a fabled quality; it...
Blog PostsElizabeth Jane Timms8th Aug 2018 -
Queen Victoria in her letters and journals
Queen Victoria began her journal in 1832 at the age of thirteen and continued to keep it until old age, with...
Blog PostsElizabeth Jane Timms7th Aug 2018 -
‘Dearest Mary’: Letters from the last Tsarina
‘What sorrows this last year brought us, what endless anxieties, what worries and losses – God grant the new year may...
HistoryElizabeth Jane Timms6th Aug 2018 -
Looking at the wedding of Queen Victoria in objects
Queen Victoria famously wrote of her wedding day – 10 February 1840: ‘“Oh! This was the happiest day of my life!”...
Blog PostsElizabeth Jane Timms6th Aug 2018 -
Looking inside the bedrooms of Queen Victoria
A bedroom gives a uniquely personal insight into any historical personality and a royal personage no less so. Many key moments...
Blog PostsElizabeth Jane Timms5th Aug 2018 -
Queen Victoria’s dogs
Queen Victoria’s love of dogs provided the inspiration for royal sculpture and painting, as well, of course, the Queen’s journal entries....
Blog PostsElizabeth Jane Timms1st Aug 2018 -
Postcards from Russia: Earl Mountbatten of Burma and his Romanov cousins
On 25 June 1900, Victoria, Princess Louis of Battenberg – born Princess Victoria of Hesse – gave birth to a son...
Blog PostsElizabeth Jane Timms31st Jul 2018