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Articles by Moniek Bloks

About Moniek Bloks
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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Queen Sofía of Spain

Taking a look at Queen Sofía of Spain

Monday, 10 August 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 1
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark was born on 2 November 1938 as the daughter of the future King Paul of Greece and Frederica of Hanover. According to her mother’s memoirs, she was born in the sitting room of a small house in Psychico, given to them by the government. Sophie’s younger brother, the future [read more]
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Iran

Sattareh Farman Farmaian – The social worker Princess (Part two)

Sunday, 9 August 2020, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Read part one here. After 32 days, she arrived in Los Angeles – now she just needed to reach Ohio. Along with a handful of other passengers who had no one to pick them up, she was taken in by the Red Cross. A friend of her father, Dr Jordan, lived in Pasadena and came [read more]
Sattareh Farman Farmaian
Iran

Sattareh Farman Farmaian – The social worker Princess (Part one)

Saturday, 8 August 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Sattareh Farman Farmaian was born on 23 December 1921 as the daughter of Prince Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma, a grandson of the Qajar Crown Prince Abbas Mirza, and Massumeh Khanum Tafreshi, the third of his eight wives. She was born in Shiraz, during the dying days of the Qajar dynasty, in present-day Iran. She was the [read more]
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The Royal Women

Queen Wilhelmina addresses the United States Congress

Thursday, 6 August 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
On 6 August 1942, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands addressed a joint session of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives – becoming the first reigning sovereign to do so. She said, “I stand here as the spokesman of my country, not only of those nine million of my compatriots in Europe but also [read more]
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Irene of the Netherlands

The life of Princess Irene of the Netherlands

Wednesday, 5 August 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Princess Irene of the Netherlands was born on 5 August 1939 as the second daughter of the future Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard and she was thus a granddaughter of Queen Wilhelmina. Her eldest sister was the future Queen Beatrix, and her two younger sisters are Princess Margriet and the late Princess Christina. Embed from [read more]
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Berengaria of Navarre

Berengaria of Navarre’s tomb to be restored

Tuesday, 4 August 2020, 8:17 Moniek Bloks 0
For a Queen of England who never set foot on English soil, her tomb has not been able to find a home either. Berengaria of Navarre was the wife of King Richard the Lionheart for eight years until his death in 1199. Berengaria and Richard had had no children together, and she settled in Le [read more]

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