There is a moment, watching a coronation or a royal wedding or a state funeral, when history stops being something that happened and becomes something happening. The crown passes. The dynasty continues. Centuries of decisions, dynasties, and defining moments compress into a single image that the whole world watches together.
Crown & Court exists for that moment, and for every quieter moment surrounding it.
We believe royalty is not celebrity. It is history with a heartbeat. The men and women who wear crowns, or who once wore them, or who circle the ones who do, are living connections to something larger than any individual life. They are institutions, symbols, and human beings all at once. That tension is endlessly fascinating. We never tire of it.
Crown & Court covers royal families from every corner of the world. The House of Windsor, certainly, but also the imperial families of Japan, the Nordic monarchies, the royal houses of the Gulf, the surviving crowns of Africa and Asia and the Pacific. Every crown tells a different story. We are here to tell them all.
Our Correspondents
Crown & Court publishes the work of six specialist correspondents, each bringing a distinct expertise and voice to royal coverage.
Edmund Calloway spent thirty years as Professor of European Dynastic History at Oxford. He writes about the kings and queens history forgot, and occasionally about the ones it remembers incorrectly.
Vivienne St. Claire is a former fashion editor who has spent two decades cataloguing every brooch, hemline, and colour choice made by queens and princesses worldwide. She believes fashion is always political.
Marcus Webb is a Fleet Street-trained journalist with twenty years covering the British royals. He writes fast, writes fair, and always gets the story.
Nadia Osei-Mensah was born in Accra, raised in Copenhagen, and educated in Tokyo. Fluent in five languages, she covers the royal families the Western press too often ignores.
Charlotte Ashby is a country house enthusiast and royal devotee who brings warmth and intimacy to stories about how royals actually live: the homes, the rituals, the family moments behind the pageantry.
Daniel Harte is a political commentator and self-described reluctant monarchist. He has strong opinions about the institution’s future and absolutely no patience for spin.
The Editor
Crown & Court is edited by Alandra L. Laine, who launched this publication from a conviction that royal journalism deserved something better than breathless tabloid coverage or dry academic analysis. She believes the space between those two extremes, authoritative, elegant, and genuinely curious, is exactly where Crown & Court belongs.
“Royalty is not celebrity. It is history with a heartbeat.”
Our Standard
Crown & Court is committed to accurate, sourced, and fair royal journalism. We cover the institution and the people within it with the seriousness they deserve and the humanity they require. We do not chase rumour. We do not manufacture drama. We report, analyse, and illuminate.
We are glad you found us.