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]
Joan of Acre’s first marriage was of her father’s choice. However, after the death of her first husband, she did something that shocked the English court – marrying against her father’s wishes. This caused quite the outrage from her hot-tempered father. But Joan was eventually able to win her father over to her side. Early [read more]
Lee Radziwill, the younger sister of former first lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis, and former royal through her second marriage to Polish Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł, reportedly died at the age of 85 last Friday. She was born Caroline Lee Bouvier on 3 March 1933, in Southampton, New York, to John Vernou Bouvier II and Janet Norton Lee [read more]
Informally Royal: Studio Lisa and the Royal Family Hardcover – 1 November 2018 (US) & 1 March 2019 (UK) A chance meeting in 1936 gave Lisa and Jimmy Sheridan the opportunity of a lifetime. Keen amateur photographers, their company, Studio Lisa, were engaged by the then Duke and Duchess of York to take informal, casual photographs [read more]
Isabella was born circa 1216/1217 as the only of King Leo I of Armenia and his second wife, Sybille of Cyprus. She had an elder half-sister named Stephanie, who died in 1220 leaving behind a young son who died not much later. She was still in infancy when she was betrothed to the third son [read more]
The death of Queen Victoria truly was the end of an era and when the end finally came on 22 January 1901, she was surrounded by her family. Curtain down at Her Majesty’s includes quotes, letters and diary entries from those who were there. Also included are the bulletins that at some point were issued [read more]
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