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My name is Moniek and I am from the Netherlands. I began this website in 2013 because I wanted to share these women's amazing stories.
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Isabella of Parma
Austria

Isabella of Parma – Exceeding expectations (Part two)

Friday, 17 December 2021, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Read part one here. By the middle of 1759, Isabella’s marriage to Archduke Joseph of Austria, the future Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, the eldest son of Maria Theresa, was arranged. He had reportedly seen a painting of Isabella and had fallen head over heels in love and refused to marry anyone else. However, this [read more]
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Austria

Isabella of Parma – The dignity of a Princess (Part one)

Wednesday, 15 December 2021, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Isabella of Parma was born on 31 December 1741 as the daughter of Philip, Duke of Parma, the second son of King Philip V of Spain, and Louise Élisabeth of France. At the time of her birth, her father was not yet Duke of Parma, and she was born in the Buen Retiro Palace in [read more]
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Marina of Greece and Denmark

The Duchess of Windsor and the Kents (Part two)

Tuesday, 14 December 2021, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Read part one here. When it finally came to planning a wedding, Edward assumed that at least some of his family would attend. A date was arranged by Louis Mountbatten, who later wrote, “I succeeded in fixing a date for your wedding that suited Bertie, George, etc.” But then “other people stepped in.” In the [read more]
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Marina of Greece and Denmark

The Duchess of Windsor and the Kents (Part one)

Monday, 13 December 2021, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Besides her future husband, it was probably Prince George, Duke of Kent and later also his wife Princess Marina, who had the most contact with Wallis, as members of the royal family. Prince George was King George V’s fourth son, and he first met Wallis in 1931 at the same time his brother did – [read more]
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The Duchess of Windsor

“My heart is so full of love for you…”

Sunday, 12 December 2021, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 0
On 12 December 1936, the former King Edward VIII was on his way to his place of exile – Schloss Enzesfeld in Austria. There was technically no requirement for them to stay apart while Wallis’s divorce was not yet final, but they wanted to avoid having the decree contested at all cost. Unfortunately, this meant [read more]
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The Duchess of Windsor

The mysterious creation of the Dukedom of Windsor

Sunday, 12 December 2021, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 1
Upon King Edward VIII’s abdication, he immediately became a Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland with the qualification of Royal Highness. On 5 February 1864, Queen Victoria had issued Letters Patent saying, “that besides the Children of Sovereigns of these Realms, the Children of the Sons of any Sovereign of Great [read more]

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