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It was on this day in 1804 that U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr shot first U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Oddly enoug...

President Obama, the guy the fawning U.S. media has said is "like God", has met with the Vicar of Christ, H.H. Pope Benedict XVI (...

One of the most tragic (and sadly there are many) stories out of late Qing Imperial China is the story of the Imperial Consort Zhen, better...

If the government of monarchy were ever to be totally annihilated from the world, its epitaph could quite honestly read, 'Killed by the...

One of the last great royal soldiers of fortune was Prince Felix zu Salm-Salm. It would be hard to imagine many other soldiers in the servic...

As a protectorate of France Monaco does not have to maintain a large military force (though the police force is extremely large and profess...

For those interested in the history, monarchy and personalities of the Principality of Monaco I have (a couple days ago) started a new blog ...

The Empire of Austria came into being in 1804 as the primary successor state of the dissolved Holy Roman Empire. In 1867 the Kingdom of Hung...

What better monarch to feature for a July 4th post than His Majesty King George III? He may be the only monarch in the history of the world ...

The mother of the last Czar of Russia, Maria Feodorovna was born HRH Princess Dagmar of Denmark, daughter of King Christian IX and Louise of...

The Times Online has a story about the recent institution by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, font of honours, of the Elizabeth Cross, named...

As The Cross of Laeken reports it is the Golden Wedding Anniversary of Their Majesties King Albert II and Queen Paola of the Belgians. Their...

One of the major figures in the State of Vietnam (the anti-communist, French-backed regime led by the former Emperor Bao Dai as Chief of St...

Today is Canada Day, formerly Dominion Day (why do I, an unaffected foreigner far from that frosty land find it so hard to make the change?)...

Coming to you from the Mad Monarchist 'eastern compound' the news of the day, even on the far side of the Atlantic, is the report o...