Carolyn Harris

Dr. Carolyn Harris is a historian, author and royal commentator. Harris was awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario in 2025. Harris is an instructor in history at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, receiving the Excellence in Teaching Award for Arts and Science in 2016 and 2021. She received her Ph.D. in European history from Queen’s University at Kingston 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, Political Quarterly and the BBC History Magazine, and she is the author of 3 books: Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada (Dundurn: 2015), Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe: Henrietta Maria and Marie Antoinette (Palgrave Macmillan: 2016) and Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting (Dundurn: 2017). She is the co-editor of a book series about royal consorts, English Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty (Palgrave Macmillan: 2022-2023) and the Production Lead for the Royal Studies Journal (Winchester University Press). Harris lives in Toronto. For more about her work, please visit her website royalhistorian.com

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