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The Race to Save the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport Book Review

Sunday, 21 October 2018, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 0

The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world, and its aftershocks still reverberate today. In Putin’s autocratic Russia, the Revolution itself is considered a crime, and its anniversary was largely ignored. In stark contrast, the centenary of the massacre of the Imperial Family was commemorated in 2018 by a huge ceremony [read more]

Book News November 2018

Saturday, 20 October 2018, 6:55 Moniek Bloks 0

My Husband and I: The Inside Story of the Royal Marriage Paperback – 20 November 2018 (US) & 5 April 2018 (UK) When a young Princess Elizabeth met and fell in love with the dashing Naval Lieutenant Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, it wasn’t without complications. The romance between the sailor prince and the [read more]

Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII’s Unwanted Wife by Sarah-Beth Watkins Book Review

Sunday, 14 October 2018, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 1

Anne of Cleves left her homeland in 1539 to marry the king of England. She was never brought up to be a queen yet out of many possible choices, she was the bride Henry VIII chose as his fourth wife. Yet from their first meeting the king decided he liked her not and sought an [read more]

Book News October 2018

Saturday, 22 September 2018, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

The First Iron Lady Paperback – 18 October 2018 (UK) History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as ‘the cleverest queen consort Britain ever had’. The intellectual superior of her buffoonish husband George II, Caroline is credited with hastening the Enlightenment to [read more]

Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household by Adrian Tinniswood Book Review

Sunday, 16 September 2018, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Monarchs: they’re just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry VIII tripped over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back on the alcohol bills. In Behind the Throne, historian Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the reality of five centuries of life at the [read more]

The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman Book Review

Thursday, 13 September 2018, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns, and antidotes tested on condemned prisoners. Servants licked the royal family’s spoons, tried on [read more]