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Month: September 2015

Marie of Cleves’ second secret marriage

September 30, 2015 Moniek 0

Marie of Cleves was born on 19 September 1426 to Adolph I, Duke of Cleves and Marie of Burgundy. Not much is known of her […]

Queen Victoria’s half-sister – Feodora of Leiningen

September 28, 2015 Moniek 14

Queen Victoria may have grown up without much contact with the outside world, but she had some company in the form of her elder half-sister. […]

Inês de Castro – The posthumous Queen

September 25, 2015 Moniek 2

Inês de Castro was born circa 1325 as a noblewoman. She was a descendant of the Castilian Royal Family through an illegitimate line. Her grandmother […]

Alexandra and Nicolas II’s remains exhumed for DNA testing

September 23, 2015 Moniek 0

Yesterday the bodies of Nicolas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, the last emperor and empress of Russia, were exhumed to do DNA-testing on the bodies. The […]

Loosduinen Abbey and the legend of the 365 babies

September 23, 2015 Moniek 0

Loosduinen Abbey is pretty unknown even in the area, but once upon a time, it was a place where a legend was born. It involved […]

The Imprisonment of the Bruce Women

September 21, 2015 Moniek 0

During the First War of Scottish Independence, the female relatives of King Robert (I) the Bruce of Scotland were particularly bad off. Mary Bruce (a […]

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