For this International Women’s Day I’d like to shine a spotlight on five royal women who should be remembered for their bravery. Sophie of Hohenberg The daughter of the assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg tried to negotiate her brothers’ release from Dachau concentration camp with Heinrich Himmler, [read more]
Read part one here. Louise finally found some measure of happiness again. Count Vittorio Alfieri wrote of their time together, “During these two years in Rome, I led a truly happy existence. This Villa Strozzi, near the Baths of Diocletian, afforded me a delightful retreat. The long mornings I spent wholly in my study, never [read more]
Louise of Stolberg-Gedern was born on 20 September 1752 as the daughter of Prince Gustav Adolf of Stolberg-Gedern and his wife, Princess Elisabeth of Hornes. She was one of four siblings, all girls. She was baptised in the Cathedral of Mons and had the following godparents: Prince Maximilien-Emanuel of Hornes, Prince Frederic Charles, Prince of [read more]
On 30 June 1688, a group of Protestant nobles invited William III, Prince of Orange, husband of Mary, daughter of King James II of England and VII of Scotland, to come to England with an army in a bid to overthrow his Catholic father-in-law. Upon his arrival, James II declined to attack the invading the [read more]
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