Empress Xiaowu’s love story with Emperor Wudi was very tragic. She was known to be one of the most beautiful women in the Han dynasty. She had a meteoric rise to become the Emperor’s favourite. Yet, she knew that the Emperor’s affections for her were fickle. When she fell ill and lost all her beauty, [read more]
Read part one here. After being made to renounce her claim to the Habsburg lands by her uncle Charles, Maria Joseph and Frederick Augustus were married on 20 August 1719. Nevertheless, with Charles’s daughters still in their infancy, there remained a distant possibility of succeeding to the Imperial Crown. The couple would go on to [read more]
Since the former Princess Mako of Japan wed her college sweetheart, Kei Komuro, last week, endless comparisons have been made with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex as both couples have decided to settle in the United States. However, their situations could not be more different. One was forced out of the Imperial Family by [read more]
Maria Josepha of Austria was born on 8 December 1699 as the eldest child of the future Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor and Princess Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. A younger brother named Leopold Joseph was born the following year, but he died of hydrocephalus before his first birthday. A sister named Maria Amalia was born [read more]
I’ll be the first to admit that I know absolutely nothing about fashion and so going to a fashion exhibition is quite outside my comfort zone. However, the end of the MAISON AMSTERDAM exhibition at the New Church in Amsterdam had a very special surprise – Queen Máxima wedding’s dress. They had kept the whole [read more]
Consort Ruji has captured the hearts of China for many centuries. She has been praised for being a hero and saving the Zhao state from the powerful Qin state. She saved them by stealing the military seal from her husband, King Anli of Wei. Stealing the King’s military seal was an act of high treason. [read more]
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