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Home2021March

Month: March 2021

Book Reviews

The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication by Alexander Larman Book Review

March 31, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

*contains affiliate links* The abdication of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom shook the country to its core. Unable to marry the twice-divorced Wallis Simpson while also remaining as King and as head of the Church, he decided to abdicate. The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication is meticulously researched, though this does [read more]

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Dorothea of Courland

Dorothea of Courland – The evening of life (Part five)

March 29, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part four here. In France, she was welcomed by her son Louis, and she was also joined by her daughter Pauline with her husband Henri and newborn daughter Marie. Dorothea was delighted by her granddaughter, whom she described as “fair, fat, and fresh, always in a good temper, laughing and restless, a little angel…” [read more]

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Dorothea of Courland

Dorothea of Courland – An end and a beginning (Part four)

March 28, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part three here. In 1825, Dorothea thought it was time to finally have a home she could call her own, and she purchased the château of Rochecotte. It was to be her favourite home for the next twenty years. She spent years improving it and enlarging it. Charles had his own rooms there, and [read more]

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Dorothea of Courland

Dorothea of Courland – Becoming the Duchess of Dino (Part three)

March 26, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part two here. Dorothea accompanied Charles to the Congress of Vienna as he needed someone to play the part of hostess and his wife Catherine was off having an affair with someone else. Dorothea was ready for a change of scenery, but she would have to leave her two little sons behind. This would [read more]

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Dorothea of Courland

Dorothea of Courland – An empty marriage (Part two)

March 24, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part one here. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince of Benevento, had focussed all his attention on his nephew Count Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord as his heir. And his heir needed a wife – preferably a rich one. It was probably Count Aleksander Batowski was hinted at Charles that Dorothea might be the woman for his [read more]

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Dorothea of Courland – A wealthy heiress (Part one)

March 22, 2021 Moniek Bloks 0

On 21 August 1793, Princess Dorothea of Courland was born as the daughter of Dorothea von Medem, Duchess of Courland and Peter von Biron, the last Duke of Courland (in present-day Latvia). Or was she perhaps the daughter of Count Aleksander Batowski? No one knows for sure, but she was recognised by the Duke as [read more]

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