Compatibility and long-term happiness are challenges for any relationship but when you throw in the mix the restrictions of royal life, a strong-willed mother-in-law and a complicated political situation…these challenges sometimes become the road to failure in a marriage. This much can be said about a royal couple that unfortunately didn’t last long but nevertheless [read more]
The first queen of Egypt in modern times, Nazli Sabri, was by all accounts an exceptional character with an exceptional destiny. If one looks at her life’s story, it is impossible to not experience a mix of feelings: admiration, appreciation, disagreement, wonder… Queen Nazli was a complex figure and a tragic character, a woman who was [read more]
If there is one word that could safely characterise the life of Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia it would be “exile”. Even her birth happened in the margins of royal protocol and rules. Her parents, King Alexander of Greece and Aspasia Manos, a commoner and daughter of a Greek colonel, fell in love in 1915 and [read more]
History is full of strange twists of fate, but the case of Narriman Sadek is an exceptional one. Her life was marked by short-lived periods of apparent happiness and long periods of oblivion and sadness. And it always seemed that destiny…external circumstances and other people decided the road of her life. It all started in [read more]
As history would have it, the last foreign princess who married into the British royal family was an exceptional figure, the epitome of royal style and beauty. Born in Athens, Greece, on 13 December 1906, Princess Marina was the youngest child of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, the third son of George I of [read more]
The second daughter of Queen Marie of Romania (born Marie of Edinburgh) and King Ferdinand was born in 1900 at Gotha, at Friedenstein Castle, where her mother was visiting relatives. Her birth generated a series of rumours about her paternity. Was the real father of the beautiful princess not King Ferdinand (Crown Prince at that [read more]
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