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.

Sunday, 15 September 2013

A publicity post about "The Immaculate Deception"

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My lovely publishers at MadeGlobal have posted some publicity information about the theatrical adaptation of "The Immaculate Deception,...

Sunday, 25 August 2013

Two reviews from the archives

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From the archives of History Today, two reviews of biographies of two of history's unluckiest queens - Anne Boleyn and Marie-Antoine...

Monday, 19 August 2013

Anne Boleyn's last secret

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Leanda de Lisle, whose biography of the Grey sisters is one of my favourite reads, along with her wonderful account of the final years ...

Sunday, 4 August 2013

The Ring of the Heavens: Marie-Antoinette's jewellery

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Tea at Trianon has a profile and link to this beautiful ring, which once belonged to Marie-Antoinette.

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Sunday, 14 July 2013

How will the Royal birth be announced?

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An interesting article from Yahoo that neatly summarises the mix of modernity and tradition that we can expect when the Court formal...

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Sunday, 16 June 2013

Progress on the book

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Well, progress on my first non-fiction book, a history of the British monarchy, is going well. I was slightly behind where I would have ...

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Monday, 10 June 2013

Is the new "theory" that Elizabeth I was secretly a man too stupid to merit a discussion?

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Yes.

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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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