Masako Owada was born on 9 December 1963 as the daughter of Yumiko Egashira and Hisashi Owada in a public hospital in the Tokyo suburb of Toranomon. Two years later, she was joined in the nursery by twin sisters. When Masako was not even two years old, the family moved to the Soviet Union into the diplomatic [read more]
Margaret of Tyrol was one of the 14th century’s wealthiest heiresses. As the heiress to the Duchy of Carinthia and County of Tyrol in present-day Austria, she was a very desirable bride. She inherited land caught between three powerful rivalling dynasties: the Habsburgs of Austria, the Luxembourgs of Bohemia, and the Wittelsbachs of Bavaria. Margaret [read more]
After many years of inbreeding, King Charles II of Spain was destined to die childless. He was described as, “short, lame, epileptic, senile and completely bald before 35, always on the verge of death but repeatedly baffling Christendom by continuing to live.” We are dealing with a man who died of poison two hundred years [read more]
Salome Alexandra was Judea’s last queen. She was the wife of two of Judea’s kings. However, her second husband, Alexander Jannaeus, chose her out of all his sons to be his successor. She was a woman who is known to have brought her country peace and prosperity. While she remains largely forgotten by today’s world, [read more]
Isabella of Gloucester was born circa 1160 as the third and youngest daughter William, Earl of Gloucester and his wife, Hawise. Her father was a first cousin of King Henry II as the son of Robert of Gloucester, the Empress Mathilda’s illegitimate half-brother. Unfortunately, despite her famous relations, nothing is recorded of her childhood. In [read more]
The Herminen-Palais is also known simply as Palais (Palace) Bückeburg. It lies in the middle of Bückeburg in Germany and was completed in 1896 to serve as the widow’s residence of Princess Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont, the wife of Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe. The Palace served as a military hospital during the Second World War and from [read more]
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