Marie-Louise O’Murphy – The Irish petite maîtresse (Part two)
Read part one here. After she had been with the King for two years, rumours were circulating around Versailles that Marie-Louise wished to topple Madame […]
France
Constance of Arles – In fear of repudiation
Constance of Arles was born circa 986 as the daughter of William I, Count of Provence and Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou. In 1001, Constance became the […]
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily – A Crown of Thorns (Part three)
Read part two here. The exiled King and his family slowly made their way to England as Maria Amalia, and her husband reluctantly stepped into […]
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily – A Crown of Thorns (Part two)
Read part one here. King Louis XVIII was quite fond of Maria Amalia, and he wrote of her, “I had heard a great deal in […]
The Bonaparte Women – Christine Boyer
Christine Boyer was the first wife of Lucien Bonaparte, the third surviving son of Carlo Bonaparte and his wife Letizia Ramolino and thus the younger […]
The Bonaparte Women – Justine Percoli-Suárez
Justine Percoli-Suárez was born on 27 November 1811 in Florence as the daughter of Bernard Percoli and Julie Niccolini. Her first marriage was to Marquess […]