Royals, Aristocrats, and World War I: Lecture by Dr. Nancy Parrish

All families may have their disputes–but for family members descended from Queen Victoria, those family spats helped lead to the first world-wide war in the history of humanity. Dr. Nancy Parrish will offer a lively slide presentation tracing the role of royals in the unfurling of what they called The Great War, British aristocrats’ naïve welcome of it, and some of its consequences reaching even into the present century. A final point of the talk will be the question of if—or should—the British monarchy continue?