The second bright happy day in our family: at 10.40 in the morning, the Lord blessed us with a daughter – Tatiana. Poor Alix suffered all night without shutting her eyes for a moment, and at 8 o’clock went downstairs to Amama’s bedroom. Thank God this time it all went quickly and safely, and I did [read more]
An American-Russian team is digging at in the Perm region and are hoping to find the remains of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, the younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II and his secretary Nicholas Johnson, who were killed by the Bolsheviks on 13 June 1918. It was in Michael’s favour that Nicholas abdicated that fateful March [read more]
In 1979, the bodies of nine people were discovered near Sverdlovsk by Alexander Avdonin, an amateur archaeologist. It wasn’t until 1998 that these remains were identified as those of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, four servants and three of their daughters, Olga, Tatiana and most likely Anastasia. Embed from Getty Images Embed from [read more]
This article was written by Hannah Pym. Although marriage was the most usual pathway for a royal daughter of England to pursue, in very rare cases a princess was chosen for the religious life, as in the case of Mary, the fourth surviving daughter of Edward I. For a king with an abundance of daughters [read more]
This article was written by Christine. You can also follow Christine on her YouTube channel, The History Gal. Who Was Mary? So frequently, Mary Boleyn is painted as the unsuccessful Boleyn sister, overshadowed by the infamous reputation of her sister, Anne. Others have suggested that Mary’s main storyline in history was as a royal mistress [read more]
A memorial plaque to Princess Gwenllian, daughter and only child of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales and Eleanor de Montfort, has been found vandalised several weeks after it went missing. Princess Gwenllian’s mother died giving birth to her, and her father was killed in battle not much later. Gwenllian was imprisoned for life in the [read more]
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