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She-Wolves: England's early queens explored in Helen Castor lecture

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26th March 2021
Women have always struggled with how the world sees them in positions of power, and historian and author Dr Helen Castor compared some of England’s early royal women to modern politicians in an online lecture this week.Pointing out “the precedent set by the Tudor queens in England was partial and pragmatic,” Castor explained how women learned that they “could rule, but…
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Prince Charles and his Greek Ancestry

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21st March 2021
Last week it was announced that Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall would travel to Greece later this month and attend its Bicentenary Independence Day celebrations. This will be Charles’s third visit to a country where his royal ancestry goes back three generations.The Prince of Wales’s great-grandfather, King George I of Greece, was the…
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Royal History Mystery: Did Princess Louise have children?

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19th March 2021
Princess Louise, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, holds an interesting spot in history. She supported higher education for women and feminist causes and was closely involved in the arts – not at all common for a Victorian princess. In opposition to her siblings, her mother wanted her to marry a British suitor rather than a foreign one. Louise married the…
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Mother knows best - the Regency before the 20th century

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10th March 2021
It might be very much in the ‘just in case’ corner but The Regency Act 1937 is a powerful document that decides who controls the Crown if the Monarch is either unable to carry out their duties or if the throne passes to a child. And the Act that sets the stall out in the 21st century is rather different from previous provisions. For until the early 20th century, it was presumed that if…
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