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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 Canada, Queenship 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

Prince Rupert of the Rhine

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

Royals Who Lived in Canada

Sylvia Stark

King Edward VIII

2010 Royal Tour - Ottawa

10 Interesting Facts About Queen Elizabeth II

Royal Tour 1901

1901 Royal Tour

Lady Monck

Queen Elizabeth Way

10 Places in Canada Named After Royalty

Princess Margaret

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with Prime Minister King

10 Memorable Royal Tours of Canada

French Canada and the Monarchy

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with Prime Minister King

King George VI

Grand Duchess Olga

Grand Duchess Olga

Princess Anne (HRH The Princess Royal)

Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught

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Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, 2022

Autumn Phillips

Duchess of Devonshire

Evelyn Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire

Lady Aberdeen

Lady Aberdeen

The National Council of Women

John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen

Andrew Archibald Macdonald

Andrew Archibald Macdonald

Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada

Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey

Jonathan McCully

Jonathan McCully

John Hamilton Gray, New Brunswick

John Hamilton Gray (New Brunswick)

Charles Fisher

Charles Fisher

Terrasse Dufferin and Chateau Frontenac

Lord Dufferin

Duke of Devonshire

Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire

Crown

Princess Patricia of Connaught

Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

Viscount Byng of Vimy

Viscount Byng of Vimy

Joseph Boyle, explorer

Joseph Whiteside Boyle

Earl Athlone and Princess Alice

Alexander Cambridge, Earl of Athlone

Anna Leonowens

Anna Leonowens

Induction of Governor General Sir John Douglas Campbell, Marquess of Lorne

John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne

Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley

Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria

Madeleine de Verchères

Madeleine de Verchères

Victoria Day

Victoria Day

Peter Mitchell

Peter Mitchell

King Charles III

Sovereign

Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck

The Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor General of Canada

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth

Royal Tours of Canada

Minto, 4th Earl of

Gilbert John Murray Kynynmond Elliot, 4th Earl of Minto

Martha Louise Black

Martha Black

Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché

Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché

Catherine O’Hare Schubert

Catherine Schubert

Frederick Arthur Stanley

Lord Stanley

Monarchism

Lord and Lady Lansdowne

Lady Lansdowne

Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee — 2002

Prince William Royal Tour, 2011

Prince William (HRH The Prince of Wales)

Queen Mother (HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother)

King Charles III

King Charles III

Prince Philip

Prince Philip (HRH The Duke of Edinburgh)

2010 Royal Tour - Ottawa

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

Thomas Heath Haviland

Royal Tour, 1939

1939 Royal Tour

John William Ritchie

John William Ritchie

Lady Dufferin (née Hariot Georgina Rowan Hamilton)

Lady Dufferin

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Anne Elizabeth Haviland

Kate Middleton, Prince William

Catherine (HRH The Princess of Wales)

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee – 1897

Mercy Coles

Mercy Anne Coles

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Elizabeth Lee Macdonald

2010 Royal Tour - Ottawa

Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee – 2012

Letters Patent, 1947

Prince Harry

Prince Harry (The Duke of Sussex)

Lorne, Marquess of

Princess Louise

Patriation of the Constitution

Constitutional Monarchy

Georges and Pauline Vanier

Pauline Vanier

Tulip Festival

Princess Margriet of the Netherlands

Earl Athlone and Princess Alice

Princess Alice Countess of Athlone

Princess Patricia of Connaught

Princess Patricia of Connaught

Meghan Markle

Meghan (The Duchess of Sussex)

King Charles III

Camilla, Queen Consort

Queen Victoria 1887

Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee – 1887

Lady Evelyn Byng

Lady Byng of Vimy

Conference at Québec

Feo Monck

King George V and Queen Mary

King George V

Lady Grey

Lady Grey