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Book News Week 51
*contains affiliate links* Book news week 49: 18 December – 24 December 2023 Queen Victoria After Albert: Her Life and Loves Hardcover – 21 December 2023 (US)
Articles by Moniek Bloks
Royal Jewels
Queen Mary’s Richmond Brooch
Queen Mary’s Richmond Brooch consists of a “pierced and scrolled outline, pavé-set with brilliant, with a detachable oval pearl and brilliant centre, and a detachable pavé-set pearl pendant; with suspension loop at the top for use as a pendant, and with two loops at the bottom for additional pendants.” The brooch was given to the [read more]
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Book News Week 50
*contains affiliate links* Book news week 50: 11 December – 17 December 2023 Women of Power: Formidable Females of the Medieval World Hardcover – 15 December 2023 (UK) Royals on tour: Politics, pageantry and colonialism Paperback – 12 December 2023 (US)
Empress Masako of Japan
Empress Masako of Japan – Times of joy and sorrow
Masako Owada was born on 9 December 1963 as the daughter of Yumiko Egashira and Hisashi Owada in a public hospital in the Tokyo suburb of Toranomon. Two years later, she was joined in the nursery by twin sisters. When Masako was not even two years old, the family moved to the Soviet Union into [read more]
Royal Jewels
The Duchess of Teck’s Emperor of Austria Brooch
The Duchess of Teck’s Emperor of Austria Brooch is “formed as a plaited circle, with pearl centre and 12 brilliant in cut-down collet settings around the edge, suspending a collet chain and three detachable baroque pearl pendants.” The brooch was given to Princess Mary Adelaide, the Duchess of Teck, by Emperor Franz Joseph I of [read more]
Book News
Book News Week 49
*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]