Marie Mancini – The love of King Louis XIV (Part two)
Read part one here. The travelling and the hectic nature of court life did not agree with fourteen-year-old Marie, and she began to feel unwell […]
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Marie Mancini – A niece of Cardinal Mazarin (Part one)
Anna Maria Mancini was born into an aristocratic family to parents Girolama Mazzarani and Baron Lorenzo Mancini and was the fourth of their ten children. […]
Marie Antoinette and The “Let them eat cake” myth
Marie Antoinette has gone down in history as one of the most despised Queens, not in the least because of her perceived indifference to the […]
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 […]
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 […]