This article was written by Marie. The “Cinderella and the slipper” story – a humble girl marrying into royalty – is a very old one. The Romans even had their own version; only it was set in Egypt – the most fabulously wealthy land of the ancient world. The pharaoh of the story was one [read more]
A newspaper in Leeuwarden was recently granted unprecedented access to the crypt at the Jacobijner church in Leeuwarden. I wrote about this church two years ago, and it is the burial place of: Anna of Nassau (Breda, 5 November 1563 – Franeker, 13 June 1588), daughter of William of Orange and Anna of Saxony Elisabeth of Nassau-Dietz (Leeuwarden, 25 July 1614 – Leeuwarden, 18 September 1614), [read more]
Cologne Cathedral is huge and imposing, and it’s actually quite surprising that there aren’t more royal tombs. The building commenced in 1248 but was halted in 1473, and it was left unfinished until 1880. It was badly hit during the Second World War, but it remained standing, and it was repaired by 1956. It was [read more]
A regent is “a person appointed to administer a state because the monarch is a minor, is absent or is incapacitated.” Eleanor of Aragon was born on 1 February 1402 as the daughter of Ferdinand I of Aragon and Eleanor of Alburquerque. She lost her father at the age of 14, and he was succeeded by her brother Alfonso [read more]
A series of 74 etchings made by Queen Victoria which were a part of a landmark injunction against the press are set to go on display at Harewood House in Leeds. The etchings were gifted to Princess Mary, Princess Royal on her wedding day and were from a descendant of Prince Albert’s private secretary, George [read more]
Arbella Stuart: England’s Almost Queen Hardcover – 15 April 2017 (UK) & 2 February 2017 (US) In 1562, Elizabeth I, the last of Henry VIII’s children, lay dying of smallpox, and the curse of the Tudor succession again reared its head. The queen was to recover, but the issue remained: if the queen did not produce [read more]
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