HRH Grand Duchess Maria Teresa-Life and Lifestyle Article

[kwanfan]

The Royal Articles editors are starting a new Life and Lifestyle section of the articles venture which will focus on - yep, you guessed it - Life and Lifestyle issues. That section is hopefully going to be anchored by a series of articles which focus on the lifestyles of individual royals, and the articles will all have the same basic format.

The sections in the articles are as follows:

• Style and fashion (formal and informal, to include jewellery, makeup, hairstyles, etc, as well as clothes; should include fashion development from before the wedding - or since leaving school for those who were born royal - to the present; emphasis will be different for male royals since we probably don't want to know about makeup and jewellery!)
• Education and work experience
• Home and family life (can include a little bit of background of the birth family as well as family lifestyle as a royal, but it should concentrate on the latter)
• Official duties (from the viewpoint of showing what sort of things they're interested in and how they go about their official life)
• Patronages and charities (same viewpoint as above)
• Hobbies, pastimes, and cultural interests
• Summary of overall development since joining the royal family (or since leaving school, for those who were born royal)

As duties, charities, patronages, children, and fashion and style change over time, the sections can be updated to reflect that, so the articles hopefully won't go out of date. The idea is to start with modern crown princesses and then extend the series to cover other princesses, princes, monarchs, and historical royals. The series isn't going to include children, though, and we're giving a low priority to princes and princesses still in full-time education who aren't doing any royal duties. It also isn't going to include girlfriends or boyfriends or even fiance(e)s of royals; it's going to concentrate on real-life actual royals.

Marengo suggested that some articles in this series could be written by two or more authors, each writing different sections on the topics that interest them the most.

There's an article on Diana, Princess of Wales under way already, thanks to TheTruth, who wrote an article on Diana's fashion and has very kindly agreed to have that article be converted to the Style and Fashion section of a Life & Lifestyle Focus article. We're currently working on expanding that article to be the first of the new series, but we're also looking to get other articles under way.

So if you want to try your hand at writing one or more sections of a Life & Lifestyle Focus article on HRH Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg, please let me know, and I'll see how we can distribute the work. Since it's still early in the process, the overall format isn't totally set in rock yet, so we'd welcome feedback on this article series - but mostly we want authors!

Feel free to ask questions about this venture here - like I said, it's something of an experiment at this stage.
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