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October 22, 2024

A problematic history of obsessing over royal women’s looks, from Camilla to the ‘ugly’ Elizabeth of Austria

Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Australian Catholic University; Magdalena Biniaś-Szkopek, Adam Mickiewicz University, and Robert Tomczak, Adam Mickiewicz University

Elizabeth of Austria, hailed the ‘mother of kings’, is still remembered more for her supposed lack of beauty than for her political legacy.

October 30, 2023

Poppy Cullen, Loughborough University

The visit will acknowledge the more painful aspects of the UK and Kenya’s colonial history.

April 21, 2023

Philip II is the forgotten king of England. Here’s what ‘consort’ really means.