July 2019 - Page 2 of 7 - History of Royal Women

Louise Margaret of Prussia – “A dear, sweet girl” (Part one)

Thursday, 25 July 2019, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Louise Margaret of Prussia was born on 25 July 1860 at the Marble Palace in Potsdam as the daughter of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia and Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau. Her father was a nephew of William I, German Emperor and a double cousin of Frederick III, German Emperor, who was also the husband [read more]

Ada of Huntingdon – A Scottish Princess as Countess of Holland

Wednesday, 24 July 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Ada of Huntingdon was born circa 1139 as the daughter of Henry of Huntingdon, a son of King David I of Scotland and Maud, Countess of Huntingdon, and Ada de Warenne. Her brothers Malcolm and William would later succeed as Kings of Scotland. She probably married Floris III, Count of Holland sometime in 1162. She [read more]

The Bonaparte Women – Elisa Bonaparte

Tuesday, 23 July 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Elisa Bonaparte was born Maria Anna on 3 January 1777 at Ajaccio, Corsica as the daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino. She was thus a younger sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. She was given the name Maria Anna in honour of an elder sister who had died a few days after her baptism. She assumed [read more]

Princesses of Orange – Wilhelmina of Prussia (2)

Monday, 22 July 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Wilhelmina of Prussia was born on 18 November 1774 as the daughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt. Not much is known about her early life. She received an education in several languages, needlepoint and painting. She married her first cousin William, then Prince of Orange, on 1 October [read more]

Queen Victoria and haemophilia

Sunday, 21 July 2019, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 1

When the future Queen Victoria was born in 1819, no one knew that she was the carrier of a blood disease that would go down in history as the “royal disease.” Haemophilia was quite misunderstood in Queen Victoria’s day, and few haemophiliacs were expected to live to adulthood. Queen Victoria’s youngest son Prince Leopold turned [read more]

Book News August 2019

Saturday, 20 July 2019, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Maria Romanov: Third Daughter of the Last Tsar, Diaries and Letters, 1908–1918 Hardcover – 20 August 2019 (US) & 30 June 2019 (UK) In Maria Romanov: Third Daughter of the Last Tsar, Diaries and Letters, 1908–1918, by translator and researcher Helen Azar with George Hawkins, Mashka’s voice is heard again through her intimate writings, presented for [read more]