Blanche of Lancaster was the mother of King Henry IV of England and the grandmother of King Henry V, but she was never a Queen herself. Blanche was born in either 1345 or 1347 to Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (a great-grandson of King Henry III) and his wife, Isabel de Beaumont. Henry [read more]
Magda Lupescu, later known as Princess Elena can be compared to Wallis Simpson in the way that their stories panned out. Unlike Wallis however, the woman behind the Romanian throne has been mostly forgotten by popular culture today, and details of her life are often hard to piece together. Magda was born as Elena to [read more]
Tsar Nicholas was crowned and formally bestowed with his title of Tsar Nicolas II on 26 May 1896. He had become Tsar almost eighteen months earlier, but the coronation did not occur at the same time as the vast celebrations and ceremonies had to be carefully planned. Tsar Nicholas was not universally liked at the [read more]
Alice was born in 1843 and was the third child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her name was chosen because Lord Melbourne, the former prime minister, had expressed to Queen Victoria that it was his favourite name. As a child, Alice was raised with her eight siblings under the watch of a series of [read more]
George I’s family life was often such a disaster that the fact he kept mistresses was hardly seen as a scandal. Before ascending the throne of Great Britain and Ireland, George I’s marriage had fallen apart. George had divorced and imprisoned his wife Sophia Dorothea after she had an affair. The tale worsened when Philip [read more]
Louise of Savoy was a politically active, assertive woman and a mother of a French king, but she had never been Queen of France herself and was not born into the monarchy. Louise was born to Phillip II of Savoy and his wife, Marguerite de Bourbon. Louise’s father spent most of his life as the younger [read more]
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