Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, there lived an inept king and a scorned queen (versions vary; in some she may be wicked, insane, abominable, all of the above). They needed an heir, but ...

In a sad portrayal of Queen Victoria, Rappaport shows her plunged into deep mourning after the death of Prince Albert in 1861 at age 42. The queen avoided public appearances for 10 years, wearing ...

In 1981, Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane traveled to the Soviet Union with his fellow co-founder, industrialist Charles Koch. Crane subsequently wrote a long-form essay about his visit that remains ...

Well-behaved women seldom make history. Nor do women queuing in subzero snow to be turned away without bread remain long well-behaved. On International Women’s Day in February 1917 — a century ago — ...

The year 1862 was a very good one for merchants of grief. Prince Albert, beloved consort of Queen Victoria, had died the previous December, and his bereft widow declared that the period of public ...

The lives of the four daughters—Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia—of Nicholas and Alexandra, Tzar and Tzarina of Imperial Russia, have been both sentimentalized and overlooked in the years since the ...

Rarely, if ever, has a biography been given a more apt title. Usually when authors embark on a biographical project of this magnitude, they will have a pretty fair idea of what tools and materials ...

The Imperial Family on duty at the Catherine Palace, Tsarskoe Selo, circa 1911. From “The Romanov Sisters,” by Helen Rappaport (Scherl - Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo ) The Imperial Family on duty at the ...

Oxford historian Helen Rappaport’s latest book Magnificent Obsession “breathes fresh life into English history's most famous widowhood”, according to Earl Spencer. The endorsement by Princess Diana’s ...

In 1981, Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane traveled to the Soviet Union with his fellow co-founder, industrialist Charles Koch. Crane subsequently wrote a long-form essay about his visit that remains ...