Princess Berenice was one of the most significant royal women of the Herodian Dynasty. She was the niece, daughter-in-law, and sister-in-law of King Herod the Great. She was also the daughter of Queen regnant Salome I of Iamnia, Azotus, and Phasaelis. She was the wife of Prince Aristobulus. While her marriage was unhappy, she was [read more]
Queen Mary’s Kensington Bow Brooch is a “pavé-set bow in the form of a double ribbon, the larger two diamonds in cut-down settings, with pavé-set baroque pearl pendant.” Embed from Getty Images The brooch was given to the then Princess Mary of Teck by the inhabitants of Kensington to mark her wedding to the then [read more]
Salome I was the queen regnant of Iamnia, Azotus, and Phasaelis. She was the sister of King Herod the Great of Judea. Chroniclers have often depicted her as “the female counterpart of her brother in her unbridled passions, her intellectual capacity, her ambition, and her ruthlessness.”[1] In the chronicles, she plots the deaths of her [read more]
Read part one here. Their marriage wasn’t always harmonious. Charles Emmanuel had a weak constitution, and he had been unable to join his brothers in military service. This made him rather melancholy, which sometimes led to explosive behaviour. This led to fights between him and his father, during which Marie Clotilde often tried to intervene. [read more]
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Marie Clotilde of France was born on 23 September 1759 as the eldest surviving daughter of Louis, Dauphin of France and Maria Josepha of Saxony. Her three surviving elder brothers were King Louis XVI, the Count of Provence (later King Louis XVIII) and the Count of Artois (later King Charles X). Her only surviving sister [read more]
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