Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s news quiz. Join us each week to test your knowledge of the stories making the headlines. This week: All eyes are on Catherine, Princess of Wales. That is, if our eyes can be trusted. Catherine, 42, has been out of the public eye since …
Read More »Royal genes? Science offers a reality check on King Charles’s ancestral lineage
Open this photo in gallery: The Bayeux tapestry, which depicts Britain’s conquest by William the Conqueror in 1066, pictured on Sept. 13, 2019, in Bayeux, France.LOIC VENANCE/Getty Images The coronation of King Charles III on Saturday may elicit excitement or indifference, but regardless of one’s opinion of the ceremony there …
Read More »A stay at Prince Edward County’s revamped Royal Hotel is a journey in local details
The Royal Hotel has anchored Picton, Ont.’s Main Street since 1879. Built to service an influx of commercial travellers and tourists brought into the area by the Prince Edward County railway, it was, according to The Settler’s Dream, a pictorial history of the County’s older buildings, the grandest accommodation in …
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