Confessions of a Ci-Devant

Musings on history, life, popular culture, and art by historian Gareth Russell. All opinions, unless otherwise stated, are either my own or possibly Gabrielle de Polignac's.

Friday, 28 September 2012

Missing Royals and Murder Mysteries: Anastasia and the allure of romance

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The story of Anastasia Romanov is one of the great melodramas of royal history. In life, the real Grand Duchess Anastasia was the teen...

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Tuesday, 18 September 2012

A state funeral for Richard III? Don't make me laugh.

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Richard III died in battle on 22nd August 1485. He had been King of England and Lord of Ireland for just over two years, having seized t...

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Saturday, 15 September 2012

Is the Palace finally getting sassy with the Press?

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It's been a long time since we saw a case of the famous cerca regna tonat that Thomas Wyatt captured with his poetry in the dark ...

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Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Golf, Rory and the ghost of the Anglo-Irish

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23 year-old Rory McIlroy is, almost without question, the most globally-successful sportsperson to come out of Northern Ireland. Right n...

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Monday, 3 September 2012

The Uncrowned Queen of Ireland: The Life of Isabel of Gloucester

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"And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names." - From William Shak...

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Gareth Russell: Gareth Russell is the author of four works of non-fiction, including the critically-acclaimed biography of Queen Catherine Howard, "Young and Damned and Fair", and two novels set in his native Belfast.

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