The story of the ‘royal malady’ highlights the growth of the press and how it has shaped how the British public perceives the royal family.
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Thanks to detailed menu records from Kew Palace kitchens, we have a fascinating picture of the Christmas foods that were popular in the royal palaces.
Whalebone is the colloquial English term for a material known as baleen. Baleen is not bone.
There are many areas in the show where historical fact is sacrificed on the altar of artistic license, but glimmers of the real Queen Charlotte shine through.
Queen Charlotte captured viewers’ attention in the Netflix series Bridgerton as the snuff-sniffing, gossip-garnering, biracial wife of the “mad king” George III.
Not everything that was painted can be taken as fact.
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Lecturer in History, The Open University
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Research associate in material and visual cultures of 18th-century Britain, University of York
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Lecturer, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Birmingham
