Judith Martin is an American journalist and author best known as "Miss Manners," her widely syndicated etiquette advice column. She previously worked as a reporter and critic at the Washington Post for over two decades. She contributed occasional pieces to The Weekly Standard on cultural and historical subjects.
Who lured his cousin, confidant, and sovereign by promising him sex with one of their famously virtuous relatives, and then stabbed him repeatedly, remaining in the bloody murder chamber for more than three hours afterwards, to laugh and joke about it with his lackey-accomplices? We know from the…
That little American girls still yearn to be princesses only shows how little history they read. So it is too bad that The Deadly Sisterhood, which is about Italian Renaissance princesses, is not written for them. It verifies the reality of all those Disney lures: the sumptuous weddings to princes,…