There are over 100 tombs in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. Many of these are located underneath the Basilica in the crypt, and as you may have guessed, the majority of these tombs are of popes. However, there are also four royal women buried among them. Matilda, Countess of Tuscany The first royal woman [read more]
Counterplay (Tegenspel) – A Century of Female Kingship is the new exhibition at the Loo Palace in Apeldoorn. The exhibition tells the story of the Netherlands’ three reigning Queens – Queen Wilhelmina, Queen Juliana and Queen Beatrix – against a backdrop of significant social changes and public perceptions of women. As Queens, the women were [read more]
Countess Palatine Sabina of Simmern was born in Simmern on 13 June 1528 as the daughter of John II, Count Palatine of Simmern and Beatrix of Baden. She was their tenth and penultimate child. Following the death of her mother in 1535, she was taken in by her relative, the future Frederick II, Elector Palatine, [read more]
The Église Notre-Dame des Victoires du Sablon in Brussels is the site of a burial chapel belonging to the comital and princely Thurn and Taxis family. The church was built in the 15th century, and it suffered damage several times over the years. It was renovated in the 20th century. The chapel for the Thurn [read more]
Princess Stéphanie of Windisch-Graetz was a descendant of the Belgian royal family and the Habsburgs. She was born on 17 July 1939 as the daughter of Prince Franz Joseph of Windisch-Graetz and Countess Ghislaine d’Arschot Schoonhoven. Her father was a son of Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, who in turn was the daughter and only [read more]
The city of Leeuwarden in the north of the Netherlands is playing host to a unique new exhibition, “Wu Zetian: the Only Female Emperor of China,” in The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics. Wu Zetian was born around 624 as the daughter of Wu Shihuo, Duke Ding of Ying and Lady Yang. She was born [read more]
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