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Princess Diana with Michael Jackson at his concert for the Prince’s Trust at Wembley, London, July 1988. (Photo by Princess Diana Archive/Getty Images)
If you’re a regular visitor to the blog, you’ll probably notice that I’ve changed the header image. What can I say: I’m fickle.
Well, actually, I changed the image to match the new beige background color, and I changed that because the previous purple background, while quite royal, made it hard to read the blog’s text while the rest of the blog was taking its sweet time loading… OK, never mind, let’s just go back to calling me fickle.
I fear the blog title doesn’t show up very well against the new image, but I can’t find a title color that works better with that image. Aargh. Also, I’m wondering if the blog has too many colors going on now…? I’d hate to kill the pink/purple in the sidebar, but should I??? Oh, dear. I should, shouldn’t I.
Obviously I am not a design guru. If you have an opinion about this new look, good or bad, please share it. Or feel free to simply point at the blog and laugh heartily.
In case you’re wondering, the new header image is from an 1815 painting of Heidelberg Castle by Carl Philipp Fohr. According to Wikimedia Commons, it is in the public domain.
Here are some of the new royalty books scheduled for publication in July. As always, publication dates are subject to change.
A Princess Found: An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All by Sarah Culberson and Tracy Trivas. Raised in the United States, Sarah Culberson was surprised to learn that she was related to royalty.
Pharaohs by Joyce Tyldesley. An illustrated history of Egyptian rulers from 3100 BC to 332 BC.
Queen Elizabeth II edited by Elizabeth Roberts. Photos documenting the life of the current British queen.
Jane Seymour: Henry VIII’s True Love by Elizabeth Norton. Biography of the Tudor king’s third wife.
Mary Boleyn: The True Story of Henry VIII’s Mistress by Josephine Wilkinson. Biography of the sole survivor of a family torn apart by lust and ambition.
The French Mistress: A Novel of the Duchess of Portsmouth and King Charles II by Susan Holloway Scott. The daughter of a poor nobleman, Louise must please jaded King Louis XIV and spy for France.
The Devil’s Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici by Jeanne Kalogridis. Married to a handsome prince but overshadowed by his mistress, Catherine turns to sorcery.
I’ll publish the full list of new royalty books on the Royal Books page next month.
If I could only read one of the books listed above, it would probably be “The Devil’s Queen” because I enjoyed Jeanne Kalogridis’s previous novel The Borgia Bride. Which book would you choose?
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