Nancy Goldstone
@nancygoldstone.bsky.social
Author and historian of queens, empresses, and all things royal and imperial
Flailing About in the Trump Bunker open.substack.com/pub/lawrence...
Flailing About in the Trump Bunker
During previous administrations, a cabinet meeting at Camp David would have aroused only moderate interest. Past presidents used the retreat mostly to escape the frenetic bustle of Washington. They tr...
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Trump’s Economy: The Yellow Brick Road Over Quicksand open.substack.com/pub/lawrence...
Trump’s Economy: The Yellow Brick Road Over Quicksand
It was hardly a surprise when, in her memorable testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, one of the many blondes that Donald Trump has dumped, defended her sele...
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What a lovely review to wake up to this morning! Thank you so much, fictionfan! Review: The Rebel Empresses by Nancy Goldstone | History fictionfanblog.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/r...
Review: The Rebel Empresses by Nancy Goldstone | History
Goldstone starts by describing the 1867 meeting of the two foremost celebrities of their day, Eugénie, Empress of France, and Elisabeth, Empress of Austria. People line the streets to catch a glimp…
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I said from the beginning, the thieves who broke in were amateurs... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Mastermind of €88m Louvre heist thought they ‘could have taken more’
Alleged thieves in October 2025 robbery damaged a gem-encrusted crown worn in the 19th century by Empress Eugénie
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Charisma and character are two separate qualities Remember t̶h̶e̶ Maine! open.substack.com/pub/lawrence...
Remember t̶h̶e̶ Maine!
The Graham Platner circus seems finally to have ended, but in addition to the immediate fallout, the episode has raised questions of both strategy and leadership in the Democratic Party. This is a par...
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Marion Davies in 1929 at the SDMOPA Beaton exhibit
Attended the opening of the Cecil Beaton exhibit last night at the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts. It traveled from the National Portrait Gallery in London. So many rare (and gorgeous!) images...it is worth a trip from LA to come to see it, it is FABULOUS! www.sdmart.org/exhibition/c...
Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World - San Diego Museum of Art
July 11, 2026–January 10, 2027 Photographer, fashion illustrator, Oscar-winning costume designer, social caricaturist, and writer Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) was an...
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Don't miss the link to the excellent History Nerds podcast at the end of the piece! Reflections on Turning 250 open.substack.com/pub/lawrence...
Reflections on Turning 250
For at least a century, “white Christian nationalism” had been forced to lurk in the dark corners of American politics, but now, with the enthusiastic encouragement of Donald Trump, it has been thrust...
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Excellent piece but personally I believe that if the Democrats do win in 2028 the conservatives on the Supreme Court will find a way to take back all the presidential powers they just lavished on Trump. open.substack.com/pub/lawrence...
The Supreme Court Has Given Us Precisely the Government the Founders Spent Four Months Trying to Prevent
That the Constitutional Convention was held under less than propitious circumstances is an understatement. Not only were delegates forced to sit cheek by jowl day after day in an unventilated hall wit...
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Gonna be interesting to see, if Dems take Congress and the White House by 2028, if the Court is going to try to find some way to undo their decisions. A left-wing dictatorship might not be as appealing to them as a right-wing dictatorship.
Yes, exactly. Tough Times for the Three Amigos open.substack.com/pub/lawrence...
Tough Times for the Three Amigos
It seems like just yesterday that Vladimir Putin was going take over Ukraine in a matter of weeks while bolstering both his popularity and his unquestioned rule at home; Benjamin Netanyahu had cleverl...
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The gift of pure joy for Juneteenth ❤️
TofuNYC 🏳️🌈🗽🇺🇦 🇬🇱🚫👑🖕🧊@groguspeak.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Knicks are loving every minute of it. 🧡💙
Harvard and Princeton graduate, Grammy winner, and former First Lady Michelle Obama appreciation post
The fastest way to get that tarp down from the Kennedy Center is to celebrate it by taking a picture of it, slapping it on a T-shirt with the inscription Happy Birthday Trump! and selling it. Whoever does that will make a fortune and it will kill Trump to see someone else making money on it.
Great piece Raphael Warnock, Mike Johnson, and the Real War on Christianity open.substack.com/pub/lawrence...
Raphael Warnock, Mike Johnson, and the Real War on Christianity
In a recent interview in the New York Times, Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, also senior pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, spent much of his time discussing what the Times called his “emph...
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This is a great story and unfortunately very necessary at this time.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2mo agoWith rising grocery prices, many Americans are struggling to provide healthy, complete meals for their families. One chef is teaching his TikTok followers how to eat well on a budget, one $5 meal at a time. https://to.pbs.org/4uVSR6d
A possible break in the case! Something fun to think about while we wait for the results of today's elections... www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
Louvre heist of the century: New lead points to Belgium
French investigators have now shifted their sights to Belgium after a crucial analysis of suspicious phone records. An update on the extraordinary manhunt after one of the most daring art heists in hi...
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Again, if you are in the San Diego area, come to this reading on June 15 at the North Coast Rep theater! This play couldn't be more topical, we are living through this moment all over again! northcoastrep.org/readings-at-...
Readings at the Rep | North Coast Repertory Theatre
Readings at The Rep
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Another great piece by my favorite Substack author! How We Got Gerrymandering – and the Bill of Rights open.substack.com/pub/rightsan...
How We Got Gerrymandering – and the Bill of Rights
Guest post from Lawrence Goldstone:
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