The Year of Queen Wilhelmina – Her first speech from the throne
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands’ first official act after all the inauguration celebrations was her speech from the throne on Prinsjesdag (Literal translation: Little Prince’s […]
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Book News October 2020
Queen of Versailles: Madame de Maintenon, First Lady of Louis XIV’s France Hardcover – 22 October 2020 (US & UK) The rise to power of […]
Isabel Neville – The forgotten Duchess
Isabel Neville was born on 5 September 1451 at Warwick Castle as the elder daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (the Kingmaker), and […]
Lambertikirche in Oldenburg – A mix of old and new
The Lambertikirche in Oldenburg has a long history. A settlement was first recorded there in 1108, though no mention was made of a church at […]
The Year of Queen Wilhelmina – The short life of Prince Maurice
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands would never know any of elder half-brothers. The first of them to die was Prince Maurice, whose life was cut […]
Queen Elizabeth I – The years of waiting (Part two)
Read part one here. Roger Ascham replaced William Grindal as Elizabeth’s tutor when William died in 1548, and he remained as her full-time tutor for […]