I don't think I mentioned that I had sent the expanded family tree to Joanna last week. Actually I took a bit of a shortcut: I found the Windsor family tree on the official royal website, printed it out (they provide PDFs of family trees for the entire line of succession, back to the Saxons!), highlighted the information to be added to our tree, and mailed it off.
I probably should have rewritten the tree, omitting the branches we don't need. That probably would have been more clear for Joanna. But I rationalized it by telling myself that she would have an easier time reading the pre-printed tree than one in my handwriting. I didn't have a rationalization for not creating a new tree in Illustrator, like I did the first time. Unless "I'm lazy" is a rationalization.
Anyway, she wrote back yesterday to let me know she's sending both the new tree and the original back to me for revisions. I'm guessing the formats don't match. I should get that on Monday.
In 1887, the Illustrated London News printed this glorious family tree for Victoria. It was an engraving of a literal tree, with Victoria and Albert's portraits on the trunk, and portraits of all their descendants among the branches. I wish we could have used that tree! But it was a fold-out insert, too big to reproduce in one piece. Plus it couldn't be extended to include the modern royals, as we're doing now.
Other than the family tree, it's been fairly slow the past couple of weeks. I didn't expect this ebb and flow in the production schedule: sometimes it's a flurry of emails between me and several different people, all about different issues. Or racing home from work, to get to the mail center in time to pick up a Fedex package, and Fedex it back the next morning. Then the flurry ends, the minor crises are resolved (or shelved), and suddenly there's nothing for me to do.
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