Osborne, 27 January 1872 Let me begin by wishing you warmly joy of this dear day, your dear eldest child’s birthday and his first entering his teens as they used to call it here. May God bless and protect him and fit him for his fearfully difficult position. May he grow up good, honest, straightforward, [read more]
Without doubt, Archduchess Sophie was the most significant figure of all the women of the imperial house after Maria Theresia. Sophie was born in 1805 to King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his second wife Caroline of Baden. King Maximilian had thirteen children in total including two sets of twin girls; Sophie was one [read more]
Asma bint Shihab has been regarded as one of Yemen’s greatest queens. While deeply respected by her contemporaries, historians often tend to overlook her story in favour of her more famous daughter-in-law, Queen Arwa. She ruled alongside her husband, her son, and his wife in shaping state politics and handling vast sums of money for [read more]
Victoria Louise of Prussia was born on 13 September 1892 as the seventh child and only daughter of German Emperor Wilhelm II and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Her mother later wrote in her diary, “After six sons, God has given us as our seventh child, a small but very strong little daughter. She was born [read more]
From Queen Victoria to the Empress Frederick – Osborne, 24 January 1891 How terrible, how awful is this death of dear young Baudouin, ‘the hope’ of the country, the pride of his poor parents and the comfort of poor King Leopold who treated him as a son! I send you these telegraphic details from Lord [read more]
When the future Queen Elizabeth II was born on 21 April 1926 to the then Duke and Duchess of York, no one expected that this little girl would one day become Queen. At the time, her uncle, the Prince of Wales and later King Edward VIII, was still young and still expected to marry and produce [read more]
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