The Grave of Mary Tudor at St Mary’s Church, Bury St Edmunds
Mary Tudor was born on 18 March 1496 as the daughter of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York at Sheen Palace, later known as […]
France
Marie of Bourbon – The Montpensier heiress
Marie of Bourbon was born on 15 October 1605 as the daughter of Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier and Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse, Duchess […]
The Bonaparte Women: Charlotte Bonaparte Gabrielli
Charlotte Bonaparte was born at Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume on 22 February 1795 as the daughter of Lucien Bonaparte, a younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, and his first […]
The Bonaparte Women: Elizabeth Patterson (Part three)
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 […]
The Bonaparte Women: Elizabeth Patterson (Part two)
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 […]
The Bonaparte Women: Elizabeth Patterson (Part one)
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 […]
