I am very happy to announce that my first book about the royals is finally out! Vicky, Dear: The Life of Victoria, Princess Royal, and Empress Frederick…

Victoria Princess Royal with the Greyhound Eos, by Sir Edwin Landseer, Royal Collection Trust. From her birth until that of her younger brother's, Albert E…

Photographs - Left: Hand-coloured photograph of Victoria, Princess Royal, now Princess Friedrich of Prussia, with her first son, Prince Wilhelm, later Kaiser W…

After the old Houses of Parliament was burned down and the ensuing problems that occurred while planning the new building, Prime Minister Robert Peel thought o…

Shortly before the early hours of November 21, 1840, Queen Victoria woke up feeling  in utter discomfort. Heavily pregnant with her first child, she was expect…

Victoria, Princess Royal and later known as the Empress Frederick, was intelligent and liberal minded but also suffered from a terrible fate in her adopted lan…

Princess Viktoria of Prussia was the second daughter and fifth child of Prince Frederick of Prussia, later Emperor Frederick III, and Victoria, Princess Royal,…

A portrait of the Empress Frederick when she was still Crown Princess of Prussia. By Winterhalter, Wikimedia Commons Cronberg, August 6, 1901 After a…

This is a condensed version of an obituary published by The New York Times on Aug. 6, 1901, on the death of the Dowager Empress Frederick of Germany.   A …

The Empress Friedrich of Germany.  Image: Wikimedia Commons Cronberg, August 5, 1901 - A dispatch to the New York Times reports the passing of Dowager Empr…