Othilde or Othelindis is one of the more unknown Countesses of Holland. She was possibly the daughter of the Duke of Saxony or the daughter of a Bernard, Margrave of the Nordmark. It is quite possible that she was, at least, from Saxony as she returned there after she was widowed. She married Dirk III, [read more]
Like her aunt and namesake, the second Kunigunde of Poland did not leave a mark on history. In fact, she stayed at her father’s court until 11 years after her marriage. She finally went to live with her husband in 1356 but died less than a year later. She had very little time to play [read more]
Read part one here. After the formal ceremony, Stéphanie and Rudolf changed into their travelling clothes. She said goodbye to her beloved Toni, her parents and her sister. They travelled to Laxenburg where they were to spend their honeymoon – the carriage ride was completely silent. They arrived in rooms that had not been done [read more]
Several birthday gifts exchanged between Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert have gone on display at Osborne House in their new exhibition Victoria and Albert’s Birthdays at Osborne. It features, among other things, a white marble statue of a nude female figure seated on a rock and a painting of women in various states [read more]
Queen Victoria’s drawings of her children are to go on display for the first time. The etchings were made in the early years of her marriage to Prince Albert and will be exhibited by the British Museum in London to mark the bicentenary of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert from July until September. The [read more]
“The Younger Lady” is the title given to the mother of King Tut whose mummified body was discovered in 1898 in the Valley of the King’s in Egypt in the tomb KV35 by archaeologist, Victor Loret. The mummified corpse was found naked and damaged (due to tomb robbers) alongside two other bodies – one of [read more]
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