Christine Tran articles

The Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg is a house of many faces. From Imperial tryanny to revolution, read on and unearth the secrets of the Winter Palace.

Elizabeth I may have had many ladies-in-waiting in her royal court, but she only trusted Bess of Hardwick to do her dirty work.

Virginia Oldoini, better known as the Countess of Castiglione, might be the original Queen of the Selfie. But few know her dark history.

Catherine de Medici played the game of thrones better than anyone in history—yet few people know this ruthless queen's dark history.

In 1952, Princess Margaret’s father died, her sister took the throne, and Margaret fell in love. Sadly, that union was doomed to a tragic end.

History has painted Queen Catherine Howard as a “fallen woman” whose seductions led her to the block. Sadly, her real story is even darker.

Any piece of writing about Bette Davis threatens to be only about her feud with Joan Crawford, but Davis was a Hollywood juggernaut on her own terms.