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I'm having trouble understanding the history and etymology of various titles, such as earl, count, duke, marquis, etc. I seem to have a jumble of English and French titles in my mind. I'm back to 1066 and the Norman conquest, and I can't tell (yet) what titles William the Conqueror bestowed...

Does anyone know of museums in Europe that might have dresses worn by royalty of past times? I'm particularly keen to see something more than shoes (lots of medieval shoes in Paris, Milan and elsewhere in Northern Italy). But how about dresses? Where could I plan to travel to see, for...

I'm reading about Henry III and Edward I of England, and it really struck me how much they believed that they were divinely chosen and backed up by God in all their actions. They were favored in war up until the Battle of Lewes, and so they thought God was literally on their side. God could...

What a wealth of information! Both my husband and I (and many other family members) have a deep interest in European history, and there's no way to have that interest and not be interested in royals. My father's family is from a line of Hawaiian ali'i, on Maui, having moved to Big Island to...