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Exhibition: Juliana – A life in dolls

Saturday, 28 May 2022, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

From 1 May 2022, Borg Museum Verhildersum will play host to the exhibition “Juliana: A life in dolls.” As Princess and later Queen, she amassed a collection of over 600 dolls. But the collection of dolls began with Princess and later Queen Wilhelmina and her mother, Queen Emma. Queen Emma took her young daughter on [read more]

The Cartier Halo Tiara

Friday, 27 May 2022, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

The Cartier Halo Tiara’s most famous outing was perhaps when it was worn by the future Princess of Wales on her wedding day on 29 April 2011. Embed from Getty Images The Halo Tiara was purchased from Cartier on 18 November 1936 by the then Duke of York, just weeks before he became King George [read more]

Book Review: Victoria II by Daniel A Willis

Wednesday, 25 May 2022, 5:55 Moniek Bloks 0

*contains affiliate links* I will be the first to admit that I was way out of my comfort zone when I bought this book. It’s not only fiction but also offers an alternative universe where Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had just one surviving child as Prince Albert was shot and killed while Queen Victoria [read more]

Sisi & her sister-in-law Margaretha of Saxony – “The happiness of a pure soul”

Tuesday, 24 May 2022, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Margaretha of Saxony was born on 24 May 1840 as the eighth child and fifth daughter of the future King John of Saxony and his wife, Princess Amalie Auguste of Bavaria. Amalie Auguste was the elder sister of both Sophie (Emperor Franz Joseph’s mother) and Ludovika (Empress Elisabeth’s mother) of Bavaria. Not much is known [read more]

Sisi & her daughter-in-law Stéphanie of Belgium – The “emptiness of the heart” (Part four)

Monday, 23 May 2022, 5:55 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part three here. The Empress and Emperor blamed Stéphanie for Rudolf’s death, but she received a heartfelt letter from Queen Elisabeth of Romania, who wrote, “My dearest Stéphanie, My thoughts turn to your almost hourly in your solitude, and the words of your wonderful letter are chiselled deep into my heart. This letter of [read more]

Sisi & her daughter-in-law Stéphanie of Belgium – The “emptiness of the heart” (Part three)

Monday, 23 May 2022, 5:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part two here. Their duties soon took them away from their young daughter. Stéphanie and Rudolf visited Constantinople and Bulgaria, followed by visits to Carinthia, Carniola, Tyrol, Albania, Greece and Montenegro. They returned to Belgium to celebrate Stéphanie’s father’s 50th birthday in 1885. The following year, both Rudolf and Stéphanie became ill. Stéphanie was [read more]