This is how a royal Frankish dynasty turned flowing locks into a political weapon, and why cutting them could mean deadly ...

From medieval sovereigns such as Charlemagne and France's Louis IX to the tsars of Russia and the great European royal dynasties of the Hapsburgs, the Bourbons, and the Tudors, the rulers of each ...

John Condren, The dynastic triangle in international relations: Modena, England, and France, 1678–85, The International History Review, Vol. 37, No. 4 (August 2015 ...