Queen Victoria in her Journal – 15 October 1839 At about half-past 12 I sent for Albert; he came to the Closet where I was alone, and after a few minutes I said to him, that I thought he must be aware why I wished (him) to come here, and that it would make me [read more]
The future Empress Taytu of Ethiopia was born Taytu Betul Hayle Maryam as the daughter of Betul Haile Maryam and Yewibdar. The date of E.C. 1832 (1839-1840 in the Gregorian calendar) is engraved on her tomb as her date of birth, but it is probably not correct as marking birthdays is not an Ethiopian custom. [read more]
This is an article by Lauren Goodall. On 29 February 1484, the earl of Huntingdon ‘set his signet’ on an indenture, promising to ‘take to wife Dame Katherine Plantagenet, daughter to our said sovereign lord’. This extant legal agreement is one of the only late-fifteenth-century documents to explicitly state that King Richard III, who ruled [read more]
Read part one here. Read part two here. By 1824, Elizabeth returned to America to find her father did not want her in his house – he had moved a mistress in. She wanted nothing more than to return to Europe immediately but could not do so until the following year. This time, she would [read more]
Read part one here. Elizabeth was enthusiastically welcomed back in the Baltimore society, but her father had been left with her husband’s debts. He was – understandably – quite angry. Then the letters Jérôme had written, finally began to arrive. Elizabeth became optimistic once more, but as more letters came in, this waned somewhat. Jérôme [read more]
Elizabeth Spear Patterson was born on 6 February 1785 as the daughter of Dorcas Spear and William Patterson. Her parents’ marriage was unhappy, and even as her mother lay dying in 1814, her father brought his mistress to the house. Elizabeth was joined in the nursery by William, Robert, John, Joseph, Edward, Margaret, George, Caroline [read more]
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