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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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Catherine de' Medici

Starz to make series called “The Serpent Queen,” based on the life of Catherine de’ Medici

Friday, 5 February 2021, 8:39 Moniek Bloks 0
Starz is set to make a period drama called “The Serpent Queen”, which will be based on the life of Catherine de’ Medici, Queen of France. The eight episodes will be based on the book “Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France” by Leonie Frieda. “‘The Serpent Queen’ may be the most cunning account of [read more]
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The Duchess of Windsor

The Duchess of Windsor – The trip to Austria

Friday, 5 February 2021, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
In February 1935, the Prince of Wales invited Wallis and Ernest Simpson to join him for a ski holiday in Kitzbühel in Austria. Wallis had eagerly accepted the invitation, but Ernest had no interest in skiing, and the two ended up quarrelling about the trip. Wallis remained determined to go, with or without Ernest. In the [read more]
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The Habsburgs by Martyn Rady Book Review

Wednesday, 3 February 2021, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
*contains affiliate links* The Habsburgs now live in people’s imagination as those rulers with the large jaw who eventually were so inbred that they died out. Now, this is not entirely true, and their legacy deserves more than that. They once ruled large parts of Europe and even of the New World and the Far [read more]
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Maria Pia of Savoy

Maria Pia of Savoy – The penultimate Queen of Portugal (Part four)

Monday, 1 February 2021, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Read part three here. Maria Pia spent much of the year 1888 scouring Europe to find a wife for her second son Afonso. However, he was quite against marriage, and the long trip eventually became a source of ridicule. She returned home without a new daughter-in-law and to a sick husband. When she attended the [read more]
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Maria Pia of Savoy

Maria Pia of Savoy – The penultimate Queen of Portugal (Part three)

Sunday, 31 January 2021, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Read part two here. Her many charitable acts could not silence her critics, and she was known to retort, “Those that want Queens should pay.” It didn’t help that her main critics were her father-in-law Ferdinand, King by right of his wife Queen Maria II until her death in 1853, and his morganatic second wife, [read more]
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Maria Pia of Savoy

Maria Pia of Savoy – The penultimate Queen of Portugal (Part two)

Friday, 29 January 2021, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Read part one here. As the news of the engagement spread around Europe, congratulations began pouring in. Queen Victoria was disappointed in Luis’s choice and wrote, “Naturally the change so sudden… in your opinion astonishes me greatly. But since you have made your choice, I have nothing more to say, except to wish that it [read more]

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