Nur Jahan was born 31 May 1577 in Kandahar as the daughter of Mirza Ghias Beg and his wife, Asmat Begum. Shortly before her birth, the caravan her family had been travelling in was robbed, leaving the family penniless. According to some accounts they were forced to abandon her by the side of the road, [read more]
This article was written by Carol. Read part one here. Margaret of Flanders was born in 1202, the younger daughter of Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders and Hainault, and Marie of Champagne. By 1205 she and her older sister Joan were orphaned. She and her sister were raised at the French court since Philip Augustus, [read more]
Once upon a time, this place was called Schloss Jägerhof and it was inhabited by Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici, the wife of the late Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, visited by Marie Louise of Austria, wife of Emperor Napoleon I and until 1885 it was used as a residence for the family of Karl Anton, Prince of [read more]
A regent is “a person appointed to administer a state because the monarch is a minor, is absent or is incapacitated.” Luisa de Guzmán was born on 31 October 1613 as the daughter of Juan Manuel Pérez de Guzmán, 8th Duke of Medina Sidonia and Juana Lorenza Gomez de Sandoval y la Cerda. On 12 January [read more]
Catherine of Aragon continues to fascinate readers 500 years after she became Henry VIII’s first queen. Her life was one of passion and determination, of suffering and hope, but ultimately it is a tragic love story, as circumstances conspired against her. Having lost her first husband, Henry’s elder brother Prince Arthur, she endured years of [read more]
Oud-Amelisweerd in the Netherlands doesn’t really look like it has much of a royal connection. It was built in the 13th century, but it was destroyed by French troops in 1672. It wasn’t rebuilt until 1770. It passed through noble hands before being sold to King Louis Napoleon of Holland in 1808. He held the [read more]
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