October 2021 - History of Royal Women

Review: MAISON AMSTERDAM City, fashion, freedom – Queen Máxima’s wedding dress

Friday, 29 October 2021, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

I’ll be the first to admit that I know absolutely nothing about fashion and so going to a fashion exhibition is quite outside my comfort zone. However, the end of the MAISON AMSTERDAM exhibition at the New Church in Amsterdam had a very special surprise – Queen Máxima wedding’s dress. They had kept the whole [read more]

Consort Ruji – The theft of the King’s military seal

Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 6:00 Lauralee Jacks 0

Consort Ruji has captured the hearts of China for many centuries. She has been praised for being a hero and saving the Zhao state from the powerful Qin state. She saved them by stealing the military seal from her husband, King Anli of Wei. Stealing the King’s military seal was an act of high treason. [read more]

Former Princess Mako and husband Kei hold press conference following wedding

Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 14:20 Moniek Bloks 0

Former Princess Mako and her new husband Kei Komuro have held a press conference following their wedding today. Although a question and answer session had been planned, it was changed at the last minute to the couple answering questions that had been submitted beforehand. The two both also read out a statement. Embed from Getty [read more]

A look at Japan’s Princess Mako

Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 3:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Princess Mako of Akishino was born on 23 October 1991 at the Imperial Household Agency Hospital in Tokyo as the eldest daughter of Prince Fumihito and Princess Kiko, now Crown Prince and Princess of Japan. She has a younger sister named Princess Kako and a younger brother Prince Hisahito. Embed from Getty Images She was [read more]

Book review: The Tsarina’s Daughter by Ellen Alpsten

Monday, 25 October 2021, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 1

*review copy* *contains affiliate links* The Tsarina’s Daughter by Ellen Alpsten tells us the tale of Empress Elizabeth of Russia, the daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I of Russia. Born in 1709, when her parents were not yet officially married, Elizabeth’s road to the throne would not be an easy one. It follows [read more]

Book News November 2021

Saturday, 23 October 2021, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

*contains affiliate links* When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe Hardcover – 12 October 2021 (US) & 12 November 2021 (UK) Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilisation of age-old norms and the waging of religious wars―yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacific culture cultivated by a cohort of [read more]