Introduction: The ‘Myth of Dārā’ is Born The day is August 29, 1659. A judge takes his seat in the diwan-i-khas at the Lal Qila in Delhi. The scene is intense, as the eldest...
In 1860 the Crown Princess of Prussia wrote to her mother, Queen Victoria, about her concerns over her brother’s proposed match with Princess Alexandra of Denmark. Stating that “an alliance with Denmark would be...
Despite continued academic and popular interest in the Boleyns, a member of their extended family has been absent from scholarship for the past hundred years. This article will examine the available information on this...
The year 2024 marks the 500th anniversary of the first printed edition of Juan Luis Vives’s De institutione foeminae Christianae.[i] This landmark text on female education continues to have lasting impact on modern understanding...
As the simultaneous publication of Prince Harry’s memoir Spare in fifteen languages last year demonstrated, royal affairs remain a subject of international as much as domestic fascination. Yet in the seventeenth century, when Europe...
نہ تھا شہر دہلی یہ تھا چمن کہو کس طرح کا تھا یاں امنن” “جو خطاب تھا وہ مٹا دیا فقط اب تو اجڑا دیار ہے “Delhi was never just a city; it was...
“Thus the knight held this prophecy [of King Arthur] to be true, and attached thereunto great faith and credit; for such is the nature of them [the English] in their country that they very...
Scholars have long acknowledged the importance of producing an heir and securing the succession for medieval kings and queens. More recently, there has been interest in how royals who struggled to have children negotiated...
In 1734, the central chancellery of Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, informed its sovereign about the number of official letters which he had sent during his first full year as a ruling prince –...
Comparatively little has been written about the reign of Elizaveta Petrovna, Empress of Russia from 1741-1761. Daughter of Peter the Great and the woman who brought Catherine the Great to Russia, Elizaveta or Elizabeth’s...
