Queen Elizabeth II’s christening robe will go on display next month as part of the centenary exhibition Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style at Buckingham Palace. The christening robe has been worn by 62 royal babies in total, and was first worn by Queen Victoria’s eldest child, Victoria, Princess Royal, later Empress Frederick. It [read more]
Read part one here. Despite his obvious reluctance to marry Frederica, Prince Louis wrote to her father, “The better I get to know Frederica, the more fortunate I feel to have such a wife, with whom, I am convinced, I will live happily and contentedly.” The official engagement took place on 24 April 1793. The [read more]
Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was born on 2 March 1778 in the Old Palace in Hanover as the fifth daughter of Charles II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was just two years younger than her sister Louise, who would become Queen of Prussia. In addition to Louise, there were two more surviving [read more]
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Elisabeth of Bavaria married one king and became queen of three kingdoms- Germany, Jerusalem, and Sicily. However, her time as queen was brief, giving her little time to leave a mark on the history of these kingdoms. Early Life Elisabeth of Bavaria was probably born around the year 1227 at Trausnitz Castle in Landshut, Bavaria. [read more]
On 27 February 1881, the future Wilhelm II, German Emperor, married Auguste Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein. They became secretly engaged on 14 February 1880 after his parents, and in particular his mother, Victoria, future German Empress, played a crucial role in overcoming the protests of other family members. Especially his grandfather, Wilhelm I, who had objected [read more]
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