Joanna of Austria was born on 24 January 1547 in Prague as the daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. Tragically, her mother died three days of childbirth complications, and thus, Joanna never knew her mother. Joanna had 14 siblings, of which three had already passed by the time [read more]
Read part three here. Catherine’s regency needed the assistance of her brother-in-law, Henry, if only because she was still considered a foreigner after all these years. Catherine was fully aware of the difficulties ahead as she wrote to her brother. Meanwhile, the young King was growing up in Catherine’s household. When his mother Joanna was [read more]
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The Dachau concentration camp was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany, and it was initially intended for political opponents. It is located near Munich, and eventually, it also became a place of imprisonment and forced labour for Jews, Romani and other groups. There were around 32,000 documented deaths at the camp, [read more]
Read part two here. In 1543, the marriage between Maria Manuela and her cousin Philip was settled, which had been one of Catherine’s greatest desires, although it was quite controversial at the Portuguese court. Maria Manuela was second in the line of succession, and it was not outside of the realm of possibilities that she [read more]
Princess Claire of Belgium was born Claire Louise Coombs on 18 January 1974 as the daughter of Nicholas John Coombs and his Belgian wife, Nicole Eva Gabrielle Thérèse Mertens. She was born in Bath in the United Kingdom. She has an elder sister, Joanna, and a younger brother, Matthew. When she was just three years old, [read more]
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