Expert Author: Linore Rose Burkard | Category: Humanities Submitted: 2008-04-29 | Word Count: 712 | Views: 34 Imagine if Queen Victoria never came to the throne...because her cousin, Princess Charlotte Augusta, beat her to it. Of course this couldn't have happened; Despite being as wildly popular to the England of her time as Princess Diana was to ours, Princess Charlotte never became the Queen she might have been, and by birth, should have been, for the simple reason that she died before getting the chance to. Read on to catch a glimpse of Her Royal Highness, Princess Charlotte --passionate, a sometime pawn of her warring parents, and the Princess of Wales during the regency until her death in 1817.
Expert Author: Linore Rose Burkard | Category: Holidays Observances Submitted: 2007-11-26 | Word Count: 670 | Views: 28 Every mother knows the joy of the holidays starts with holiday cleaning, right? NOT. After holiday cleaning is more like it. Who can stand to decorate, bringing out all that merry stuff, while the house is already cluttered? The children, perhaps, but not me.
A new study suggests that who we know is perhaps more important than what we know, when it comes to our weight. Think of it this way: instead of "sharing the wealth," your friends could be "sharing the weight!"
Expert Author: Linore Rose Burkard | Category: Book Writing Submitted: 2006-12-30 | Word Count: 553 | Views: 73 The Regency debutante comes in very handy for authors like me, even though she is as individual as the writers who create her. She can appear in just about all shapes and sizes--within a framework of having the ability to attract "Mr. Right," of course. (In other words, she can be anything as long as it's attractive enough for the purposes of a romance.)
Expert Author: Linore Rose Burkard | Category: Home And Family Submitted: 2006-12-07 | Word Count: 646 | Views: 6 Use the holiday season as the perfect time to tame the media beast in your home!
Expert Author: Linore Rose Burkard | Category: Humanities Submitted: 2006-08-13 | Word Count: 782 | Views: 214 Why did an intelligent, vain and charismatic Prince marry a woman he couldn't stand to be in the same room with? And what of that earlier marriage to a twice-widowed Catholic? Read on, to see what happened when the Regent took a wife--twice.
Expert Author: Linore Rose Burkard | Category: Humanities Submitted: 2006-07-30 | Word Count: 735 | Views: 231 Some authors (not to mention book covers) would have you believe that to dress in Regency style was to be overly immodest or even exposed. I beg to differ.
Expert Author: Linore Rose Burkard | Category: Humanities Submitted: 2006-07-11 | Word Count: 631 | Views: 170 The miniature portrait was being produced in many places in Europe, but nothing paralleled the popularity of the medium in Britain, especially between around 1769 to 1830. In short, it was a favored Regency form of expression and decoration.