By 1463, the future Queen Isabella was 12 years old and of marriageable age. At the time, both her brothers were still alive, but even then, any man who would marry her would become one of the most powerful men in the country. Her half-brother, King Henry IV, sought the support of Portugal while the [read more]
On 10 April 1959, Michiko Shōda married the future Emperor Akihito of Japan. They had met on a tennis court in 1957, and the engagement ceremony took place on 14 January 1959. Embed from Getty Images Michiko was a commoner, and it was widely rumoured that her future mother-in-law opposed the engagement. However, the couple [read more]
Read part three here. While at Alaejos, Joan fell in love with Archbishop Alonso de Fonseca y Ulloa’s nephew, Pedro de Castilla y Fonseca. Pedro was a descendant of King Peter of Castile through his illegitimate son, Diego. He was ten years younger than her, and Joan became pregnant. However, her pregnancy, or at least [read more]
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STARZ has released a first look at the second season of The Serpent Queen, featuring Samantha Morton as Catherine de’ Medici and Minnie Driver as Queen Elizabeth I. The second season of the drama is set to return in the summer 2024.
Text by Brittani Barger Born on 22 June 1932 in the English Missionary Hospital in Isfahan, Iran, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary was the elder child and only daughter of Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary and his German wife, Eva Karl. Soraya was introduced to the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, in 1948. The Shah had recently divorced his first [read more]
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