*review copy* *contains affiliate links* Queen Victoria was the longest-reigning British monarch until Queen Elizabeth II broke that record. She became Queen just one month after turning 18, and she would reign until her death in 1901 at the age of 81. She married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, on 10 [read more]
Born on 18 February 1984, Stéphanie Marie Claudine Christine de Lannoy is the youngest of eight children. A Belgian noble from birth, Stéphanie was born in East Flanders to Count Philippe de Lannoy and Countess Alix. She attended the Dutch language Sancta Maria de Ronse school before continuing her education at Collège Saint-Odile in France [read more]
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Princess Marie Astrid of Luxembourg was born on 17 February 1954 as the daughter of Jean, the then Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium. She was their eldest daughter, and four more siblings, Henri (born 1955), Jean (born 1957), Margaretha (born 1957) and Guillaume (born 1963), followed. Embed from Getty Images [read more]
Margaret of Austria was born on 16 February 1536 as the daughter of the future Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anne of Bohemia and Hungary. She was their ninth child and seventh daughter. She was born in Innsbruck. Alongside her sisters Helena and Magdelena, she expressed the wish to stay unmarried. Nevertheless, when Margaret [read more]
[Not to be confused with her aunt, Queen Amytis of Babylon] Amytis Shahbanu was the first Persian Queen of the Achaemenid dynasty. She was the daughter of the last Median king, Astyages. King Astyages was defeated by his grandson, King Cyrus the Great. In order to legitimately procure Media, King Cyrus the Great had to [read more]
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