Newly released documents from the National Archives in Kew from the estate of Princess Louise, Queen Victoria’s fourth daughter, have shown that she died in 1939 with an unpaid cigarette bill of 15 shillings at R Lewis Limited. The death duties file shows that Princess Louise left £239,260, 18 shillings and sixpence, worth more than [read more]
This month sees the UK release of the long-awaited film The Favourite, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos which I have just been to see in order to report my opinions back to History of Royal Women readers! The film focuses on the court of Queen Anne, who reigned from 1702-1714 and is a rather overlooked monarch, [read more]
On the morning of the 14th of July 1958, the world woke up to the shocking news of the murder of King Faisal II of Iraq. But probably, few people were more shocked than the beautiful fiancé of the young King, Princess Sabiha Fazila. Educated in Britain at Harrow, along with his more famous cousin, [read more]
Read part one here. Despite her joy at being in Paris, it was clear that her marriage was a disaster. They quarrelled violently and then made up, sometimes in public. It became a series of scenes. Mathilde accepted his affair with Princess Schouwaloff, but when Valentine de Dino also came into the picture, she was [read more]
The top 10 best-viewed articles of this year were: 1. Cecilie of Greece and Denmark and the tragic plane crash 2. The Mother of Alexander the Great: Olympias 3. Rani of Jhansi – the best and bravest of all 4. Hurrem Sultan – Suleiman’s True Love 5. The Ruin of a Princess – Marie-Thérèse of France 6. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon – [read more]
The Cathedral of Fulda is best known as the burial place of Saint Boniface but it is also the final resting place of Princess Anna of Prussia, Landgravine of Hesse. Anna lived and died in nearby Schloss Fasanerie and later in life she converted to Catholicism. “If you knew what difficulties I had struggled with [read more]
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