Moniek Bloks, Author at History of Royal Women

Book News Week 49

Sunday, 3 December 2023, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 0

*contains affiliate links* Book news week 49: 4 December – 10 December 2023 Gilded Youth: A History of Growing Up in the Royal Family: From the Tudors to the Cambridges Hardcover – 5 December 2023 (US & UK) Queens of the Age of Chivalry (England’s Medieval Queens) Paperback – 5 December 2023 (US) The [read more]

Royal Jewels – The Duchess of Gloucester’s Pendant Earrings

Friday, 1 December 2023, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

The Duchess of Gloucester’s Pendant Earrings were inherited by Princess Mary Adelaide, future Duchess of Teck, from her aunt, Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, in 1857. They were then passed to her daughter, the future Queen Mary, upon her death in 1897. The earrings each have a “detachable pendant pearl suspended from cut-down collets, within [read more]

Review: Napoleon (2023)

Thursday, 30 November 2023, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

From Ridley Scott comes the 2023 biopic Napoleon, starring Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon Bonaparte and Vanessa Kirby as Joséphine de Beauharnais. Napoleon rose to become Emperor of the French with Joséphine by his side, although he would later divorce her to marry the Austrian Archduchess Marie Louise to father an heir. The film begins with [read more]

María Teresa Rafaela of Spain – The Dauphine who found a warm and pure heart

Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

María Teresa Rafaela of Spain was born on 11 June 1726 as the daughter of King Philip V of Spain and Elisabeth Farnese. From her father’s first marriage, she had two surviving half-brothers. She also had five full siblings. María Teresa Rafaela was born Royal Alcazar of Madrid in Spain, and she was under the [read more]

Book News Week 48

Sunday, 26 November 2023, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 0

*contains affiliate links* Book news week 48: 27 November – 3 December 2023 Catherine the Great and the Culture of Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century (Cultures of Early Modern Europe) Paperback – 30 November 2023 (US & UK) Henry VIII’s True Daughter: Catherine Carey, A Tudor Life Hardcover – 30 November 2023 (UK) On The Trail [read more]

Royal Jewels – Queen Mary’s Love Trophy Collar

Friday, 24 November 2023, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Queen Mary’s Love Trophy Collar was made in March 1901 for the future Queen Mary when she was Duchess of Cornwall and York. The collar is “formed of seven brilliant-set panels, each with an amatory trophy of bow, quiver and torch in a laurel-wreath oval suspended from a ribbon-tie, framed by foliate brilliant-set bands.” The [read more]