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Book Review: Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific World by Jennifer Thigpen

*review copy* *contains affiliate links* Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai’i’s Pacific World is a book that focuses on the relationship between Hawaiian royalty and the mission wives who arrived in Hawaii to bring Christianity. The Hawaiian queens are immensely fascinating, and this book had the opportunity to be so [read more]

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Book Review: Raised to Rule: Educating Royalty at the Court of the Spanish Habsburgs, 1601-1634 by Martha K. Hoffman

*review copy* *contains affiliate links* Raised to Rule: Educating Royalty at the Court of the Spanish Habsburgs, 1601-1634 by Martha K. Hoffman focuses on the children of King Philip III of Spain and his wife, Margaret of Austria. They had five children who survived to adulthood and three children who died young. Their eldest daughter, [read more]

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Book Review: VERA: Princess of the Imperial Blood Vera Konstantinovna by Paul Gilbert

*contains affiliate links* Princess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia was born on  24 April 1906 as the daughter of Grand Duke Konstantine Konstantinovich of Russia and his wife, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna (born Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg). She had six brothers and one surviving sister.  She grew up in the splendour of Imperial Russia and was [read more]