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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner Book Review

Thursday, 19 March 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

I went into Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown with great expectations, having even seen the witty Lady Anne on The Graham Norton Show telling him all about her honeymoon. Lady Anne was the daughter of Thomas Coke, 5th Earl of Leicester and Lady Elizabeth Yorke. She was a [read more]

Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls by Marlene Wagman-Geller Book Review

Thursday, 12 March 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

“Even a palace can be a prison”, says a young Princess Victoria in The Young Victoria film from 2009 as she walks along the fence of Kensington Palace. Being born royal, or even with money, can be a burden as Women of Means proves. Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and [read more]

The Romanov Royal Martyrs: What Silence Could Not Conceal Book Review

Thursday, 5 March 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

The Romanov Royal Martyrs: What Silence Could Not Conceal is a book that caught my eye quite early on. It was originally released in Greek before being released in English in September 2019. Although it claims to uncover many “unknown and unrevealed” facts from texts never published in English before, I have not found anything [read more]

Q&A with Hugo Vickers, author of The Crown Dissected: An Analysis of the Netflix Series The Crown Seasons 1, 2 and 3

Tuesday, 25 February 2020, 6:00 Brittani Barger 0

I had the opportunity to do a short question and answer session with the author of “The Crown Dissected: An Analysis of the Netflix Series The Crown Seasons 1, 2 and 3”, Hugo Vickers. We spoke about his book that analyses The Crown, as well as the main focus of the Netflix show, Queen Elizabeth [read more]

Book News March 2020

Saturday, 22 February 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

The War Queens: Extraordinary Women Who Ruled the Battlefield Hardcover – 10 March 2020 (US) & 26 March 2020 (UK) History’s killer queens come in all colors, ages, and leadership styles. Elizabeth Tudor and Golda Meir played the roles of high-stakes gamblers who studied maps with an unblinking, calculating eye. Angola’s Queen Njinga was willing to [read more]

The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women: Queen Victoria and the Women’s Movement by Arianne Chernock Book Review

Thursday, 6 February 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Queen Victoria, who reigned from 1837 until 1901, would have been the perfect forerunner for the women’s movement but unfortunately, the nineteenth-century feminists were to be disappointed. Queen Victoria condemned the women’s rights movement with the words, “the movement of the present day to place women in same position as to profession – as men” [read more]