A small curtsey/bow to a member of the royal family is traditional but not in any way obligatory. But curtseying to the Duchess of Windsor, who was very explicitly *not* a member of the royal family, would have been an embarrassing social gaffe.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.