Carolyn Harris

Dr. Carolyn Harris is an instructor in history at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. She received her Ph.D. in European history from Queen’s University in 2012. Her writing concerning the history of monarchy in the UK, Europe, and Canada has appeared in numerous publications including the Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, Smithsonian Magazine, Reader's Digest Canada and the BBC History Magazine, and she is the author of 3 books: Magna Carta and Its Gifts to CanadaQueenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe: Henrietta Maria and Marie Antoinette and Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting. She is currently co-editing a book series about royal consorts, English Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty. She lives in Toronto. See royalhistorian.com

Articles by Carolyn Harris

Prince Rupert of the Rhine
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Prince Rupert of the Rhine
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
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Royals Who Lived in Canada
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Sylvia Stark
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King Edward VIII
2010 Royal Tour - Ottawa
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10 Interesting Facts About Queen Elizabeth II
Royal Tour 1901
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1901 Royal Tour
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Lady Monck
Queen Elizabeth Way
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10 Places in Canada Named After Royalty
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Princess Margaret
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with Prime Minister King
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10 Memorable Royal Tours of Canada
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French Canada and the Monarchy
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with Prime Minister King
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King George VI
Grand Duchess Olga
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Grand Duchess Olga
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Princess Anne (HRH The Princess Royal)
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Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught
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Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, 2022
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Autumn Phillips
Duchess of Devonshire
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Evelyn Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Lady Aberdeen
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Lady Aberdeen
The National Council of Women
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John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen
Andrew Archibald Macdonald
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Andrew Archibald Macdonald
Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada
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Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
Jonathan McCully
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Jonathan McCully
John Hamilton Gray, New Brunswick
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John Hamilton Gray (New Brunswick)
Charles Fisher
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Charles Fisher
Terrasse Dufferin and Chateau Frontenac
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Lord Dufferin
Duke of Devonshire
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Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
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Crown
Princess Patricia of Connaught
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Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Viscount Byng of Vimy
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Viscount Byng of Vimy
Joseph Boyle, explorer
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Joseph Whiteside Boyle
Earl Athlone and Princess Alice
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Alexander Cambridge, Earl of Athlone
Anna Leonowens
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Anna Leonowens
Induction of Governor General Sir John Douglas Campbell, Marquess of Lorne
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John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne
Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley
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Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley
Queen Victoria
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Queen Victoria
Madeleine de Verchères
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Madeleine de Verchères
Victoria Day
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Victoria Day
Peter Mitchell
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Peter Mitchell
King Charles III
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Sovereign
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Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck
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The Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor General of Canada
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
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Royal Tours of Canada
Minto, 4th Earl of
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Gilbert John Murray Kynynmond Elliot, 4th Earl of Minto
Martha Louise Black
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Martha Black
Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché
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Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché
Catherine O’Hare Schubert
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Catherine Schubert
Frederick Arthur Stanley
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Lord Stanley
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Monarchism
Lord and Lady Lansdowne
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Lady Lansdowne
Queen Elizabeth II
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Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee — 2002
Prince William Royal Tour, 2011
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Prince William (HRH The Prince of Wales)
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Queen Mother (HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother)
King Charles III
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King Charles III
Prince Philip
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Prince Philip (HRH The Duke of Edinburgh)
2010 Royal Tour - Ottawa
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Queen Elizabeth II
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Magna Carta
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The Charter of the Forest
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St. George's Society of Toronto
Thomas Heath Haviland
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Thomas Heath Haviland
Royal Tour, 1939
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1939 Royal Tour
John William Ritchie
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John William Ritchie
Lady Dufferin (née Hariot Georgina Rowan Hamilton)
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Lady Dufferin
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Anne Elizabeth Haviland
Kate Middleton, Prince William
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Catherine (HRH The Princess of Wales)
Queen Victoria
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Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee – 1897
Mercy Coles
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Mercy Anne Coles
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Elizabeth Lee Macdonald
2010 Royal Tour - Ottawa
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Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee – 2012
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Letters Patent, 1947
Prince Harry
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Prince Harry (The Duke of Sussex)
Lorne, Marquess of
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Princess Louise
Patriation of the Constitution
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Constitutional Monarchy
Georges and Pauline Vanier
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Pauline Vanier
Tulip Festival
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Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
Earl Athlone and Princess Alice
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Princess Alice Countess of Athlone
Princess Patricia of Connaught
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Princess Patricia of Connaught
Meghan Markle
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Meghan (The Duchess of Sussex)
King Charles III
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Camilla, Queen Consort
Queen Victoria 1887
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Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee – 1887
Lady Evelyn Byng
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Lady Byng of Vimy
Conference at Québec
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Feo Monck
King George V and Queen Mary
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King George V
Lady Grey
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Lady Grey

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