Crown Chronicles

Crown Chronicles is Crown & Court’s ongoing look back — the histories, heirlooms, and inherited dramas that still shape the monarchies of today. Some installments trace centuries-old dynasties; others sit with a single object, a single scandal, or a single decision whose consequences outlived everyone involved in making it. There is no fixed schedule here, only the conviction that the past is rarely as past as it seems.

The Marriage That Ended a War: Henry VII, Elizabeth of York, and the Union That Created Modern Britain

In January 1486, two people who had never met exchanged vows at Westminster Abbey and ended thirty years of civil war. Edmund Calloway on the most consequential royal marriage in British history — and why most people have never heard of it.

The Phillips Line: What Peter’s Wedding Tells Us About the Monarchy Anne Built for Her Children

Peter Phillips married without a title, without a palace, and without fanfare — and in doing so demonstrated exactly what his grandmother built him to demonstrate.

The Law That Could End a Dynasty: Japan’s 1947 Imperial Household Law and the Crisis It Created

From Battlefield to Balcony: The Three-Hundred-Year Journey of Trooping the Colour

The Weight of Diamonds: Princess Amalia, the Dutch Star Tiara, and What It Means to Inherit a Crown

The Quiet Revision: How a Forgotten 1991 Amendment Made Elisabeth Belgium’s First Queen in Waiting