I was very excited to receive this book from Amberley Publishing. This is the story of Joan of Kent, the First Princess of Wales. Besides being married into the royal family, she actually belonged to it by blood. She was the daughter of Edmund of Woodstock and Margaret Wake, who was Baroness Wake of Liddell [read more]
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna was born on 28 July 1860 at the Peterhof Palace in Russia. She was the daughter of Princess Cecilie of Baden, known as Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna, and Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich. She was their only daughter, and she had six brothers. Her marriage to Friedrich Franz, the Hereditary Grand Duke [read more]
I was lucky enough to receive a copy of this brand new book called ‘Henry VIII’s Last Love, The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady in Waiting to the Tudors’. I’m a big fan of the Tudor-era and I had actually read a bit about Katherine Willoughby beforehand. She’s also featured in the not so [read more]
Gwenllian of Wales has perhaps one of the most tragic stories I have read in awhile. She was born in Abergwyngregyn, near Bangor in Gwynedd in June 1282. She was the only child of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales and Eleanor de Montfort. Eleanor was the daughter of Simon de Montfort and Eleanor of [read more]
Paul Friedmann originally released a two-piece biography of Anne Boleyn way back in 1884. Part of this biography has been reprinted in the ‘Great Tales of British History’ series. Anne Boley was, of course, the second wife of Henry VIII. Henry famously separated from Rome and founded the Church of England to divorce his first [read more]
I’ve been meaning to read more about Margaret of York ever since I went to Mechelen to find the Palace of Margaret of Austria, which also happened to be right across the street from Margaret of York’s Palace. You can find that blog post here. Palace of Margaret of York, now the City Theatre I [read more]
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