The Court Historian is published three times a year, in April, August and December. Information about current and future issues is available here.

Archive Issue

Volume 26, No. 3 (December 2021)

ARTICLES
Erin Griffey – ‘Restoring Henrietta Maria’s English Household in the 1660s: Continuity, Kinship and Clientage’
Simon Adams – ‘Providing for a Queen: The Stables under Elizabeth I’
George William Cullen Gross – ‘1651: The Last Coronation in Scotland — An Anomaly?’ - access:
Étienne Faisant – ‘An English Court in a French Château: The Apartments of James II and his Family at Saint-Germain-en-Laye’

Book Reviews
Habsburg Women of Power: Mariana of Austria - Silvia Z. Mitchell, Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman. Mariana of Austria and the Government of Spain (Pennsylvania State University Press: University Park, PA, 2019), 293 pp - Blythe Alice Raviola
Beyond the Court: (Homo)sexuality and Aristocratic Culture - Norman Domeier and Christian Mühling (eds), Homosexualität am Hof: Praktiken und Diskurse vom Mittelalter bis heute (Campus Verlag: Frankfurt/New York, 2020), 401 pp. - Felice Lifshitz
The King of Portugal’s Library: A Story of Bibliophilia and Destruction - Angela Delaforce, The Lost Library of the King of Portugal (Ad Ilissum/Paul Holberton Publishing: London, 2019), 330 pp., 200 colour illustrations. - Charles Sebag-Montefiore
King of the World? - Philip Mansel, King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), 604 pp. - James R. Farr

Conference Report
Dressing a Picture - Katarzyna Kosior

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