Read part three here. Maria Pia spent much of the year 1888 scouring Europe to find a wife for her second son Afonso. However, he was quite against marriage, and the long trip eventually became a source of ridicule. She returned home without a new daughter-in-law and to a sick husband. When she attended the [read more]
Read part two here. Her many charitable acts could not silence her critics, and she was known to retort, “Those that want Queens should pay.” It didn’t help that her main critics were her father-in-law Ferdinand, King by right of his wife Queen Maria II until her death in 1853, and his morganatic second wife, [read more]
Read part one here. As the news of the engagement spread around Europe, congratulations began pouring in. Queen Victoria was disappointed in Luis’s choice and wrote, “Naturally the change so sudden… in your opinion astonishes me greatly. But since you have made your choice, I have nothing more to say, except to wish that it [read more]
Maria Pia of Savoy was born on 16 October 1847 at the Royal Palace in Turin as the second daughter of the future King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy and his wife Adelaide of Austria. She was given the name Pia in honour of her godfather Pope Pius IX, and it was also he who [read more]
AF Studios have revealed the teaser trailer for the period drama “Margrete – Queen of the North”, the first biopic about Queen Margaret I of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. She was the founder of the Kalmar Union that joined the Scandinavian kingdoms together for over a century. The producers, SF Studios’ Birgitte Skov and Lars Bredo Rahbek, told [read more]
From their first meeting on 10 January 1931, Wallis Simpson slowly rose to become the Prince of Wales’ favourite. At the time, the Prince of Wales’s favourite was Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness, who was unhappily married to Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness. They eventually divorced in 1933 and Thelma became known as Thelma, Viscountess Furness [read more]
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