Princess Agnes of Salm-Salm was born as Agnes Elisabeth Winona Leclerc Joy on 25 December 1844 in Vermont as the daughter of American general William Leclerc Joy and his second wife, Julia Willard. She may also have been born in 1845 as she told a reporter that she had been 16 years old when she married in [read more]
On 16 May 1879, Pierre Gilliard was born in Switzerland. He may not be royal (nor a woman!) but he was an important person for the Romanovs. Pierre Gilliard came to Russia in 1904 to teach French to the family of George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg. He was then recommended as a French tutor to [read more]
The Kingdom of Serbia began its life in 1882 when Prince Milan I of the Principality of Serbia was proclaimed King. He had been married to his second cousin Natalija Keşco since 1875. Natalija thus became Serbia’s first Queen. Milan and Natalija had two sons together, though only the elder would live to adulthood. In 1888, Milan [read more]
Ilancueitl was the first queen of the Aztecs. She was a Colhuacan princess who married the king of Tenochtitlan primarily for strategic purposes. She would prove to be barren and did not produce any offspring. However, because of her royal blood, later Aztec rulers would claim to be her direct descendants. We do not know [read more]
Youth Anne Boleyn was most likely born in Blickling in either 1501 or 1507. Eric Ives believes that the earlier date is correct.Her father Thomas was the son of Sir William Boleyn of Blickling and her mother Elizabeth was the daughter of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, later Duke of Norfolk. In 1503, Thomas escorted [read more]
Written by Emma Rountree. On 18 October 1926, Queen Marie of Romania arrived in New York City to cheering crowds and a ticker-tape parade. She had come at the behest of her American friends, businessman Sam Hill and modern dancer Loie Fuller. Hill wanted her to speak at the dedication of his new museum, the [read more]
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