Background
She was born in Florence, Oregon and grew up in Frederick, Maryland.
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Elena Vidal
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Vidal graduated in 1984 from Hood College in Frederick, Maryland with a Bachelor in Psychology, and in 1985 from the State University of New York at Albany with an Master of Arts in Modern European History.
Career
She is known for her defense of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette by means of her novels Trianon and Madame Royale and her Tea at Trianon blog. In May 1984 Vidal was a student delegate at the Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference in Annapolis, Maryland. She has worked as an elementary school teacher and private tutor.
In 2006, Vidal was interviewed by Doug Keck on the EWTN Bookmark show.
In April 2009 she was a speaker at the Eucharistic Convention in Auckland, New Zealand. In August 2010 Vidal spoke at The Catholic Writers Conference in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. In October 2010 she was presented to His Imperial and Royal Highness Archduke Imre of Austria and to His Imperial Highness Prince Bertrand of Orleans-Braganza in York, Pennsylvania. In 2011, Vidal interviewed David Chambers, the grandson of ex-Communist spy Whittaker Chambers, published in the The American Conservative (United States of America) and The National Observer (Australia).
In August, 2011 Vidal became a reviewer for the Historical Novels Review, the journal of the Historical Novel Society.
Politics
Vidal"s great-grandfather was the socialist politician James Vint Laughland.
Membership
Vidal is a member of the Catholic Writers Guild and the Eastern Shore Writers Association.
