Photographer Annie Leibovitz doesn’t talk to her subjects when photographing them. “I certainly can’t talk to people and take pictures at the same time. For one thing, I look through a viewfinder when I work.” (1) But famed photographer Richard Avedon had a different style. Leibovitz observed that Avedon “seduced his subjects with conversation. He had […]
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The Duke and Duchess of Windsor: We Are Not Amused
Posted in Adolf Hitler, Annie Leibovitz, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the, King George VI, PEOPLE, Richard Avedon, tagged 1957 Avedon photo of Windsors, Adolf Hitler, Annie Leibovitz, biographies of royalty, British History, celebrity photography, Diana Mitford, Diane Arbus, Duke and Duchess of Windsor photos, King Edward VIII, King George VI, Nazi sympathizers, Oswald Mosley, photography, pug dogs, Richard Avedon, Richrad Avedon, the Bahamas, the blackshirts, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the United Kingdom, the Windsor style, the Windsors, Truman Capote, Wallis Warfield Simpson, WWII on October 9, 2009| 44 Comments »
Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor
Posted in Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of political wives, biographies of royalty, biographies of women, Cartier, Cartier's panther jewelry, Chanel, French haute couture, international best-dressed list, Paris couture, the Duchess of Windsor, the Duchess of Windsor's jewels, Wallis style, Wallis Warfield Simpson, Windsor style on September 29, 2009| 7 Comments »
In my previous post, “Coco Chanel, Nazi Lovers, and the Windsor Set,” I described the wave of attention the Duke and Duchess of Windsor received when they settled in Paris in the late thirties. A glamorous social set of fashion designers, Nazi sympathizers, American heiresses, British ex-pats, and assorted other idle rich people welcomed the Windsors and became […]
Coco Chanel, Nazi Lovers, and the Windsor Set
Posted in Adolf Hitler, Coco Chanel, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the, Jackie Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Kennedys, the, PEOPLE, Salvador Dali, tagged Adolf Hitler, biographies of women, biographies of women designers, Coco Chanel, Dallas, Diana Mitford, Elsa Schiaparelli, Elsie de Wolfe, France, French haute couture, french women nazi collaborators photos, Gabrielle Chanel, Great Britain, Jackie Kennedy in Chanel, JFK assassination, Kennedys, King Edward VIII, King George VI, Mona Bismarck, Nazi sympathizers, Oswald Mosley, Salvador Dali, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Nazis, the Windsor Set, Wallis Warfield Simpson, Winston Churchill on September 29, 2009| 13 Comments »
In 1937, after King Edward VIII had given up the British throne to marry his American divorcee, Wallis Warfield Simpson, the two tiny, trim party animals were exiled to France, where they were doomed to live a life of idle nothingness. They were given the new but hollow titles of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Accustomed to […]
Princess Margaret’s Trip to America, 1979, Part Five: La Casa de Sue
Posted in PEOPLE, tagged anti-British protest, british royal family, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Governor Jerry Brown, Hollywood, I.R.A., LInda Ronstadt, Princess Margaret, Princess Margaret in America, Roddy Llewellyn, Sue Mengers on July 23, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Readers, be sure to read my preceding posts on Princess Margaret’s October 1979 Trip to America. Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four The 1970s era Hollywood super agent Sue Mengers was only interested in representing the top talent in the industry. Her“bulging celebrity contacts book” included Barbra Streisand, Jack Nicholson, Mike Nichols, Ali […]
Princess Margaret’s Trip to America, 1979, Part Two: Lord Louis Mountbatten
Posted in British Royal Family/Nobles, Margaret Thatcher, PEOPLE, POLITICS & GOV'T, Prince Charles of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II, ROYALTY/NOBILITY, tagged assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten, Balmoral Castle, british royal family, funeral of lord louis mountbatten, I.R.A., IRA, Irish Republican Army, Margaret Thatcher, Prince Charles, Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II on July 13, 2020| 5 Comments »
First, please be sure you have read this post: “Princess Margaret’s Trip to America, 1979, Part One” It was August in 1979, a time when almost every Briton took a holiday to some faraway family home or destination. Queen Elizabeth II loved to go to Balmoral Castle in Scotland. This year, as in many years, […]
How Much Do You Know About the Royal Family?
Posted in Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the, King George VI, PEOPLE, Prince Charles of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince William & Catherine, Duke & Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mum, Queen Victoria & Prince Albert, ROYALTY/NOBILITY, tagged biographies of royalty, Duke of Edinburgh, King Edward VIII, King George VI, pictures of Princess Diana, pictures of the Queen, Prince Charles, Prince Philip, Prince William, Princess Diana, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II, the British Royal Family, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Queen and corgis, the Queen Mother on January 11, 2011| 3 Comments »
What’s Prince Philip’s favorite drink? Check out our quiz to see how much you know about the Royal Family: 1. In which battle did George VI fight? A. The First Battle of Ypres B. The Battle of Loos C. The Battle of Jutland D. The Battle of Tumbledown 2. What was the name of the […]
1936 The Year of the Three Kings
Posted in King George V, King George VI, PEOPLE, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mum, ROYALTY/NOBILITY, tagged Adolf Hitler, biographies of royalty, British Royal Family/Nobles, Charles Bedaux, King Edward VIII abdication, King George V, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mum, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Warfield Simpson on October 2, 2009| 8 Comments »
The year 1936 brought many changes within the British monarchy. In January of that year, the first monarch of the House of Windsor, King George V, died and his son, Edward VIII ascended the throne. King Edward VIII though was not destined to rule long. He had a married American mistress – Wallis Warfield Simpson – who was […]
Queen Elizabeth’s Grandmother Had the “Gimmies”
Posted in PEOPLE, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Mary (of Teck), ROYALTY/NOBILITY, tagged biographies of queens, biographies of royalty, Britain, British Royal Family/Nobles, House of Windsor, jewelry, King George V, Mary of Teck, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary, Queen Victoria, Royal Collection, Royal Jewels, tiara on March 19, 2009| 44 Comments »
Queen Mary was Queen Elizabeth’s grandmother. She was married to George V. George V was the father of Queen Elizabeth’s father, King George VI, who preceded Queen Elizabeth on the throne. Queen Mary got it wrong. One is supposed to “love people and use things.” She did the very opposite. Mary loved things and used people. The Queen […]
About Lisa
Posted in on February 3, 2009| 166 Comments »
Hi, I’m Lisa Waller Rogers and I write the blog, Lisa’s History Room. “Oh, no! Another history blog?” you might say. Yes, another history blog – and yet not – because this one’s different in a very special way. You see I don’t think of history the way many historians do, as a dull-as-dirt list […]
Princess Margaret: Drama Queen
Posted in British Royal Family/Nobles, French Royalty, King George VI, Marcel Marceau, PEOPLE, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Marie Antoinette, ROYALTY/NOBILITY, tagged amateur theatrics, British pantomimes, costume balls, King George VI, Marcel Marceau, Marie Antoinette, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on July 3, 2020| 2 Comments »
From a very young age, Princess Margaret of Britain (1930-2001) loved to dress up in costumes, act, sing, and dance—and she had real talent. At the age of nine months, for example, she had astounded her grandmother with her gift for music, by humming the waltz from “The Merry Widow.” Her enchantment with the magical […]
Prince Philip Dabbles in Oils
Posted in British Royal Family/Nobles, PEOPLE, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth II, ROYALTY/NOBILITY, tagged british royal family, Prince Philip, Prince Philip painting, Queen Elizabeth II, Sandringham on January 13, 2020| 2 Comments »
Since retiring from public service in August 2017, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has spent most of his time at Wood Farm, a secluded cottage on the edge of the royal Sandringham Estate on the Norfolk coastline. The modest red-brick, five-bedroom property, just a few miles from the big house, allows Philip privacy and […]
Prince Philip and Carriage Racing
Posted in PEOPLE, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, tagged carriage racing, Prince Philip on January 18, 2019| 7 Comments »
In 1971, Prince Philip of England gave up polo. He was fifty years old. Not one to sit still, he cast about trying to come up with some other exciting activity that best befit his physical abilities. In a 2017 interview, Philip said, I was looking round to see what next, I didn’t know what […]
What Freud Did to Prince Philip’s Mum
Posted in British Royal Family/Nobles, Greek Royal Family, King Constantine, King George V, Marchioness of Milford Haven, PEOPLE, Prince Andrew and Princess Alice of Greece & Denmark, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Cecilie, Princess Margarita, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Princess Sophie, Princess Theodora, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Victoria & Prince Albert, Sigmund Freud, the Holocaust, Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra, Victoria, tagged Balkan Wars, Battenberg, Bellevue, Duke of Edinburgh, Greco-Turkish War, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Goebbels, history of Greece, holocaust, House of Battenberg, House of Glucksburg, King George V, Kreuzlingen, Marchioness of Milford Haven, Mountbatten, Nazi Germany, Prince Andrew of Greece, prince philip of greece, Princess Alice of Battenberg, princess alice of greece, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Victoria, Sigmund Freud, spiritualism, the British Royal Family, the Greek royal family, the Russian Revolution, Victoria, World War I on January 9, 2019| 8 Comments »
As I mentioned in my blog post, “Prince Philip’s Mum had a Habit,” Prince Philip of the United Kingdom, known as the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince Consort of Queen Elizabeth II, was born in 1921 on a kitchen table in Corfu, Greece, in a house that had no electricity or running water. But Philip […]
Agatha Christie: Wave Runner
Posted in Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the, LITERATURE, EDUCATION, & REFORM, PEOPLE, Queen Elizabeth II, ROYALTY/NOBILITY, tagged 1924 British Empire Exhibition, Agatha Christie, Archie Christie, biographies of women, biographies of women writers, biographies of writers, Buckingham Palace, Dame of the British Empire, early days of surfing, Edward Prince of Wales surfing, Moana Hotel, pictures of Agatha Christi surfing, pictures of Agatha Christie, pictures of surfing, Queen Elizabeth II, South Africa, surfing, surfing history, surfing in Hawaii, surfing in South Africa, the Makura ship, Waikiki Beach, women surfing, women writers on May 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »
In the early morning hours of August 6, 1922, crime novelist Agatha Christie and her husband, Archie Christie, sailed into Honolulu, Hawaii, on the Makura and hailed a taxi. On their drive to the Moana Hotel, they passed between palm trees and hedges of hibiscus, red, pink, and white oleanders, and blue plumbago. At their hotel, the sea washed right up to the courtyard […]
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