Princess Joanna of England was born around October 1165 in the Chateau d’Angers in Anjou (in what is now France). She was the youngest daughter and seventh child of King Henry II of England and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine. Many historians referred Princess Joanna either as Joanna Plantagenet or simply Joan of England. Most [read more]
Princess Helen of Greece is an outstanding figure of Romanian history although little known to the larger public. The fact that she left Romania in 1948 after the Communist regime abolished the monarchy and for the next fifty years the royal family was a forbidden topic, contributed largely to the shadows around the figure of [read more]
Antoinette de Mérode was born on 28 September 1828 as the daughter of Count Werner de Merode and his wife, Countess Victoire de Spangen d’Uyternesse. She married Charles, the future Prince of Monaco on her 18th birthday in Brussels. She was described as “golden haired.” The newlyweds received a warm welcome in Monaco, but they soon returned to [read more]
This article was written by Carol. Violant of Bar was born in 1365, the daughter of Robert, Duke of Bar and Marie of Valois, a daughter of the French King John II. Violant had a pampered upbringing and was given the education of a royal princess. At the age of 15, she married the heir [read more]
Christine Marie of France was born on 10 February 1606 in the Louvre Palace in Paris as the daughter of Henry IV of France and Marie de’ Medici. On her 13th birthday, she married the future Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy at the Louvre Palace. She was then known as the Princess of Piedmont. She [read more]
Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese princess, married Charles II in 1662 and became the merry monarch’s Restoration queen. Yet life for her was not so merry – she put up with the king’s many mistresses and continuous plots to remove her from the throne. She lived through times of war, plague and fire. Catherine’s marriage [read more]
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