We’ve Moved the Blog!
After six years of running the Line of Succession blog on WordPress, we’ve packed up our posts and moved them here to Substack. Why the change? A few good reasons:
Less Time on Tech, More Time on Writing
Running a WordPress site means constant maintenance: updates, plugins, spam comments (900+ in the last six weeks alone!). Substack handles all of that for us — so I can focus on researching, writing, and sharing rather than patching.
A Better Experience for Readers
Email delivery built in: Every new post is delivered straight to your inbox if you subscribe.
Simple archive: You can browse all past articles right here without wading through menus.
Cleaner design: No clutter, no distractions, just the content.
A Stronger Community
Substack has comments and discussion built-in, but it’s also a network — people interested in royal history can find this publication through Substack’s discovery features. That helps new readers find us.
Future Possibilities
Right now, everything remains free, just as before. But Substack opens the door to things we couldn’t easily do before, like:
Premium subscriptions for readers who want deep-dive essays or exclusive research.
Special series (e.g. detailed profiles of key succession crises).
Direct reader support without running ads inside the blog itself.
What Stays the Same
The site you know at blog.lineofsuccession.co.uk continues to be the home of our articles. The main lineofsuccession.co.uk site is still there too, with the live database and charts. And the style of writing you’re used to — careful, factual, occasionally nerdy — doesn’t change.
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