Great Wall of China longer than believed as 180 missing miles found
Apr 222009
Apr 212009
The Telegraph reports that in photos from the set of the 2010 movie Robin Hood, Russell Crowe “appears to be wearing jeans in place of the rather less macho Lincoln green tights worn by Errol Flynn.”
Weep.
All right. Let me pull myself together and make two comments on this.
1. Robin Hood (assuming he was a real person) lived hundreds of years before the invention of blue jeans.
2. Tights are plenty macho. Just ask Henry VIII. And I doubt I’m the only moviegoer who would like to see another Errol Flynn, especially in tights. Cast David Lee Roth as Robin Hood if you have to, but bring back the tights!
(OK, maybe not David Lee Roth. But how about Orlando Bloom? He’d wear the green tights. And he’d look good in them.)
Henry VIII, not afraid to show his legs
Image source: Wikimedia Commons. According to Wikimedia, this image is in the public domain.
Apr 212009
Today’s totally trivial gossip: British celebrity Katie Price, also known as Jordan, supposedly claimed to be friends with Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughter Zara Phillips, but Zara Phillips (or her spokesperson) reportedly disagrees.
Apr 202009
Royal Husband of the Week
Philip the record-setting consort
Crisis in Thailand
The trouble with the king
The War on Insults Continues
Kuwait arrests former MP for criticizing royal (link expired)
Wild Speculation of the Week
Kate Middleton ‘desperate’ for baby
Royal History in the News This Week
Inbreeding brought down Spain’s Habsburgs – study (link expired)
For a lot more royal news, visit the Royalty.nu News page!
Apr 172009
I’m celebrating The World of Royalty’s 11th anniversary with a parade! My royalty quiz is appearing on Parade Magazine’s website this week to compliment Parade’s upcoming Sunday cover story on Danish royalty.
I’m told Parade has 70 million readers (it is said to be the largest-circulation magazine in the U.S.), so of course I hope a few of them see the quiz on Parade’s site and decide to visit Royalty.nu. We always have room for new royal watchers here in The World of Royalty.
(Disclaimer: Actually this has nothing to do with the site’s 11th anniversary; it’s just a nice coincidence that it was published on the same day.)
Apr 172009
The main World of Royalty website is 11 years old today. All I can say is wow.
OK — maybe I can say a little more than that.
The site started on April 17, 1998 as a single page on Geocities — just a place to keep my history links so I wouldn’t lose them if my computer crashed. (Bookmarking sites like Delicious didn’t exist in Ye Olden Days.)
Soon I added a news page, and some history articles that were frequently revised to reflect suggestions from the site’s visitors. (Wikipedia didn’t exist in the Olden Days, either.)
I moved to the Royalty.nu domain in 2001. The site still has link lists and some history articles, but these days I’m focusing mainly on royal news and royalty books because that’s where I think I can still add something useful.
Will Royalty.nu exist 11 years from now? Probably. It definitely would not have survived for its first 11 years without the kindness, encouragement and support of its loyal visitors. My thanks to you all.
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