Christine Marie of France was born on 10 February 1606 in the Louvre Palace in Paris as the daughter of Henry IV of France and Marie de’ Medici. On her 13th birthday, she married the future Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy at the Louvre Palace. She was then known as the Princess of Piedmont. She [read more]
Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese princess, married Charles II in 1662 and became the merry monarch’s Restoration queen. Yet life for her was not so merry – she put up with the king’s many mistresses and continuous plots to remove her from the throne. She lived through times of war, plague and fire. Catherine’s marriage [read more]
This article was written by Franziska. Brought back to life in fiction The TV series ‘Outlander’ by STARZ is by far one of the biggest successes in television of the past few years. The series is based on the books by Diana Gabaldon and tell the story of WW2 nurse Claire who accidentally travels through [read more]
This article was written by Marie. Joan is the bride whose mother took off with the groom. In this case, the frisky mother was Isabelle of Angoulême: a widowed queen on the look-out for a new husband. But as Joan was only ten at the time, it can’t have been too much of a snub. She probably wasn’t that close [read more]
Marie Caroline Gibert de Lametz was born on 18 July 1793 as the daughter of Charles-Thomas Gibert and his wife, Marie-Françoise Le Gras de Vaubercey. She was originally a stage actress and met Prince Florestan on his return to France in 1815. Prince Florestan was the second son of the reigning Prince of Monaco, Honoré [read more]
This article was written by Carol. Joan of Arc is well-known as the young peasant girl who, during the last years of the Hundred Years War between France and England, claimed God called upon her to come to the aid of the exiled Charles VII of France. She raised the siege of Orleans allowing Charles [read more]
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