Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, is reportedly insisting that there will be no "blooding" for her three children: Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

This longtime ritual calls for members of the royal family to smear blood on their faces from their first kill during fox or stag hunting. Royal author Tom Quinn claimed in his new book that Kate ...

Our lives are redolent with rituals, from personal to promulgated, from silly to serious, from religious to civic and secular. In The Politics of Ritual, Molly Farneth casts a determined eye on the ...