Which Victorian murderess inspired Thomas Hardy’s "Tess of the D’Urbevilles"? Who lived to regret her "deathbed" conf...

 “In the past,” Archduke Franz Ferdinand said, “I believed that kings and emperors made all the decisions for their people. Now, though, I ...

 The ill-fated Crown Prince Rudolf was born on 21st August 1858. Countess Larisch, writing after his death, rather dramatically described h...

 On 17th August 1887, the future Emperor Karl of Austria was born. He was the son of Franz Ferdinand's brother, 'the gorgeous Archd...

                                 King George IV, like many of his contemporaries, developed an interest in exotic animals and created a larg...

On the 6th August 1870, the Prussian were victorious at the Battle of Worth. The Prussian Crown Prince, Frederick (Fritz) had just led his t...

Although Britain did not enter WW1 until 4th August 1914, the war began on 28th July. Contrary to popular opinion, it was not a war betwee...

On July 24th 1905, the Kaiser and the Tsar met aboard the Kaiser's yacht to sign the Treaty of Bjorko, agreeing to come to one another...

I greatly admire and simultaneously feel sorry for King Cetshwayo - the King of the Zulus, whose well-disciplined and ...

Due to propaganda, many people think that Wilhelm II tried to erase his father's memory, but this is far from the truth. At his behest...

I am surprised that this lovely story is not better known...a true account of an impoverished working woman, who met and married her hand...

On a bright summer’s day in June 1887, a procession of mounted kings and princes moved sedately through the streets of London in celebrati...

As people might be looking for something different to read while being confined to the house, I am reducing the price of the Kindle version...

On 28th March 1884, Queen Victoria's youngest son, the haemophiliac Prince Leopold, died in Cannes. From 'Queen Victorias Granddaugh...