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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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The Royal Women

Queen Victoria to the German Crown Princess – 19 January 1876

Saturday, 19 January 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Osborne – 19 January 1876 I feel and enter into all your anxieties and troubles about your dear children, but Papa and I felt the same. But experience has taught me alas! that youth is so wayward and foolish that all one’s wish to make them do what is for their good and what is [read more]
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Hawaii

Nāhiʻenaʻena – The Princess who was in love with her brother

Friday, 18 January 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Nāhiʻenaʻena was a Hawaiian Princess born probably circa 1815, but we do not know this for certain, nor do we know the place of her birth.  Her parents were Kamehameha I, the founder and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii and Keōpūolani, his highest ranking wife. We do know that her mother insisted on keeping “this last child” [read more]
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Margaret of York – The devoted Duchess (Part one)

Wednesday, 16 January 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Margaret was born on 3 May 1446 as the daughter of Richard, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville. Her birthplace is unfortunately uncertain. She was their third daughter and sixth child out of twelve. Her father had a claim to the throne through both the second and the fourth son of King Edward III and [read more]
Places To Visit

Vyšehrad and the mythical Princess

Tuesday, 15 January 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Vyšehrad is a historic fort in Prague, located on the right bank of the Vltava River, across from Prague Castle. Within the fort stands the Basicila of St. Peter and St. Paul, which, according to my guidebook, holds graves belonging to “the old royal family.” So far, I’ve only found that Duke Vratislaus II of [read more]
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Austria

Sisi – The Wandering Empress (Part 3)

Monday, 14 January 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 1
Read part one here. Read part two here. What use the solitary tear? It merely dims my sight A remnant of the olden times Left behind my eyes You ancient, solitary tear Dissolve Now, too. – Sisi   While on Madeira, Elisabeth led a quiet and solitary life in a villa by the sea. She [read more]
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The Royal Women

Queen Victoria & The Kensington System

Saturday, 12 January 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
The future Queen Victoria was born on 24 May 1819 to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George III, and the widowed Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She had come ahead in the unexpected baby race between her uncles, following the death of the future King George IV’s only legitimate child, Charlotte of [read more]

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