Released in the United States on 1 June
2018 (and due to be released on 5 July in the UK), Jane Dismore’s
Princess The Early Life of Queen Elizabeth II takes a look back, as
the title states, at Her Majesty’s young life beginning before she
was even born. While writing my review, I’ve tried not to give too
much away, so that you all can enjoy the book for yourselves
without it…
On 20 June 1837, Princess Victoria of
Kent was awoken in her bedroom at Kensington Palace, writing later
in her journal entry for that day, in which significantly the proud
new word ‘alone’ features intermittently (also underlined), we
read: “I was awoke at 6…
Catherine of Braganza has gone down in
history as a rather nice lady who liked drinking tea. The
Portuguese princess who arrived in Portsmouth in 1662 to marry
Charles II has been portrayed as a gentle soul whose heart was
broken by her inability to have children and who instead contented
herself by making a nice cuppa the fashion of the day while trying
to be friends with her husband’s many…
The artworks by the fashionable German
portrait painter and historical artist Friedrich August von
Kaulbach (1860-1920) of Princess Alix of Hesse, later Tsarina
Alexandra Feodorovna and her elder sister, Elisabeth Feodorovna,
‘Ella’ Grand Duchess Sergei of Russia…
It was 4 August 1982. The IRA had
recently set off bombs in Regent’s Park and Hyde Park, and just a
few weeks before that, the infamous Michael Fagan
incident occurred, when a man managed to break into Buckingham
Palace and entered The Queen’s bedroom. But a…
