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• 8/21/2022
  

  In Search of the Ladies-in-Waiting to Anne Boleyn

  by Sylvia Barbara Soberton

  Paying attention to the women who surrounded Anne Boleyn helps to clarify myths and misunderstandings about her elevation and her demise. 

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• 2/20/2022
  

  The Strangely Forgettable Burial Place of Henry VIII

  by Emma Levitt

  Though the monarch's grandiose plans for his own tomb were never fulfilled, they reveal much about Henry VIII's ideas of power and masculinity, and pose an ironic contrast to the austere slab that marks his resting place today. 

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• SOURCE: Der Spiegel
  3/12/2021
  

  Racism, White Supremacy and the British Royal Family

  by Brooke Newman

  The treatment of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle by the royal family is a huge missed opportunity for leadership as denial of racism is growing in Britain. 

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• 6/12/18
  

  It’s No Downton Abbey, but It’s Just as Much a Part of English History

  by Jennifer Tucker

  Widnes, where the Royals are visiting this week, was where the chemical industry was founded during the Industrial Revolution.

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• SOURCE: Inquisitr
  1-23-14
  

  Kate Middleton, Prince William ‘Dull,’ According to Historian

  BBC historian Christopher Lee says Kate and William are "dull and inoffensive."

• SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
  8-4-13
  

  Forbidden love of a star-crossed prince

   It has all the ingredients of a romantic bestseller: a prince and a princess are desperately in love but, forbidden from marrying, they beg the Queen and the Pope for help.It even boasts a tragic ending, as the young prince dies shortly after becoming engaged to another woman, while his fiancée is comforted by his heartbroken family.In fact it is the true story of how Prince Albert, Duke of Clarence and Avondale and grandson of Queen Victoria, wooed Princess Hélène of Orléans, whose father was a pretender to the French throne.The couple’s intimate correspondence has now come to light, showing for the first time the details of an affair which at the time came close to causing a constitutional crisis. Prince Albert considered renouncing his right to accede to the throne to marry Hélène, who was forbidden from joining the Royal family because she was a Roman Catholic....

• SOURCE: Daily Mail (UK)
  4-22-13
  

  Skeleton of 4,400-year-old woman wearing golden jewellery is discovered in royal borough

  The discovery of the 4,400-year-old burial site of a woman adorned with gold jewellery has prompted speculation that Windsor's royal connection goes back further than suspected.Archaeologists working in a quarry near the royal family's Berkshire residence have unearthed a rare Copper Age grave of a middle-aged woman buried with some of Britain's oldest gold ornaments.The find is doubly significant since grave sites from the era containing such fine jewellery, which also included lignite and amber, are usually associated with men....