Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia was born on 11 March 1892 as the daughter of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia and Princess Milica of Montenegro, known as Grand Duchess Militza Nikolaevna of Russia. Her father was a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. She was her parents’ eldest child, and two more sisters [read more]
Matilda was born in around 1105 in Boulogne in Northern France; she was of noble and royal descent as her parents were Eustace III, Count of Boulogne and Mary of Scotland. Her mother Mary was the daughter of the Scottish King Malcolm III and Matilda’s bloodline also heralded from the pre-conquest kings of England. Despite [read more]
Princess Sara, the Dowager Duchess of Harar, has died on 17 February 2019 at the of 90. The Princess was born Sara Gizaw on 1 January 1929 as the daughter of Gizaw Abera. She received her education at the Royal Infirmary Nursing School of Edinburgh. She married Prince Makonnen, Duke of Harar, the second son of Emperor Haile Selassie of [read more]
Read part one here. The start of the First World War saw Sylvia sign up as a nurse, but she could not stand the sight of blood, and she ended up in the pantry doing the dishes. At the end of the year, Vyner also returned to England just as his father arrived in Sarawak. Sylvia [read more]
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is perhaps the most famous woman alive and yet we actually know very little about her. We will probably have to wait until her death to be provided with an official biography and until then we are left grasping at what we can see in the press. Elizabeth [read more]
Princess Maria Volkonsky was born Maria Raevskaya on 25 December 1805 as the youngest daughter of Russian general Nikolay Raevsky and Sophia Konstantinova. Her mother wrote, “She is totally unlike anyone in the family. Her face is all eyes – very dark with long lashes… She gazes at me unsmilingly, and she does not even [read more]
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