Moniek Bloks, Author at History of Royal Women

Schloss Cecilienhof & The Marble Palace

Friday, 3 July 2015, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Schloss Cecilienhof is now perhaps best known as the place of the Potsdam Conference in 1945. Before that, it was the home of Crown Princess Cecilie and Crown Prince William. Construction began in 1914 after the Marble Palace proved inadequate for them. The two palaces are about 1 kilometre apart. Crown Princess Cecilie As you [read more]

Dunfermline honours St. Margaret of Scotland with a pilgrimage

Wednesday, 1 July 2015, 11:00 Moniek Bloks 1

Over a thousand people came to Dunfermline last Sunday to take part in a new summer pilgrimage honouring St. Margaret of Scotland. The Pilgrims were led by a school pipe band and the relics of St. Margaret were carried by the Archbishop of St. Andrews & Edinburgh. The amount of people that turned up was [read more]

Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women by Justin C. Vovk Book Review

Wednesday, 1 July 2015, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

I’ve been meaning to read Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women, The Fall of the Age of Empires by Justin C. Vovk for a while now. It’s not exactly a new book, having been first released in 2012. This book concentrates on four women and the role they played in the age that saw the downfall [read more]

Charlottenburg Palace and Gardens & Schloss Schönhausen

Monday, 29 June 2015, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 2

Charlottenburg Palace is the largest palace in Berlin, and it sits in the Palace Garden. Naturally, there was some construction going on while I was there. The Palace was commissioned by Sophie Charlotte of Hanover. She was the sister of George I of Great Britain and the wife of the first King of Prussia, Frederick I. [read more]

Johanna of Polanen and Anna of Egmont & Castle Breda

Friday, 26 June 2015, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

A while ago I booked a historical walk through the city of Breda in the Netherlands. Breda was one of the original Nassau cities, and it was quite centrally located in the Netherlands when Belgium was also still a part of the Netherlands. Right now it’s situated pretty southernly. The first stop is this Nassau [read more]

Charlotte and Feodora: A troubled mother-daughter relationship in Imperial Germany by John van der Kiste Book Review

Wednesday, 24 June 2015, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 1

Princess Charlotte of Prussia was born as the daughter of Victoria, Princess Royal and Frederick III, German Emperor on 24 July 1860 in Potsdam. She married her second cousin, the future Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Prince Bernhard. From this marriage, a single daughter was born on 12 May 1879, who was the first great-grandchild of Queen [read more]