Queen Margrethe II of Denmark has announced in her New Year’s Address that she will step down on 14 January 2024. This date also marks the 52nd anniversary of her accession to the throne. She said, “In two weeks’ time, I have been Queen of Denmark for 52 years. Such an amount will leave its [read more]
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After the fall of the French monarchy on 21 September 1792, it was resurrected several times, but it currently does not exist. However, as the lines continued into the 21st century, who would be Queen of France today? King Louis XVI was executed on 21 January 1793, and he was nominally succeeded by his son, [read more]
Read part seven here. King Charles X had begun making decisions, which even worried Marie Thérèse. Soon, the situation spiralled out of control. Crowds of angry men and women refused to work, and police fired into the crowd, costing several lives. This turned into a full-out insurrection at the end of July 1830. King Charles [read more]
Read part six here. Despite her deep unhappiness, Marie Thérèse continued to present herself as the perfect princess. To ease her suffering, her husband took her on a month-long tour of central France, where they were well-received all around. She later wrote to her uncle, “I have concluded that the Bourbons really are affirmed on [read more]
Read part five here. Marie Thérèse still longed for one thing: a child. There were rumours that her husband was homosexual or that he had some kind of medical condition. Another rumour mentioned that Marie Thérèse had possibly been given a poison while in the Temple, which made her sterile. She was also deeply troubled [read more]
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