Yesterday the bodies of Nicolas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, the last emperor and empress of Russia, were exhumed to do DNA-testing on the bodies. The DNA taken will be used to confirm the identities of the last two missing children, Maria and Alexei. The two have been previously identified but subsequent DNA testing is necessary [read more]
Elizabeth of Hesse and by Rhine was born on 1 November 1864 as the second child of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and Alice of the United Kingdom. She was known as Ella in her family. Tragedy struck for the first time in 1878 when diphtheria killed Elizabeth’s youngest sister Marie on 16 November [read more]
The remains of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolayevna and her husband Grand Duke Nicolas Nicholayevna have been re-interred in Moscow on 30 April 2015. Grand Duchess Anastasia was born Princess Anastasia of Montenegro on 4 June 1868 as the daughter of King Nikola I Petroviç-Njegos of Montenegro and Queen Milena of Montenegro. She was one of twelve [read more]
Many royal women sought a religious life, especially after the deaths of their husbands or even from their early childhood. I have compiled a list, probably incomplete, of many of those female saints. Adelaide of Italy Adelaide was born around 931 and she was respectively Queen of Italy as the wife of Lothair II of [read more]
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna was born on 28 July 1860 at the Peterhof Palace in Russia. She was the daughter of Princess Cecilie of Baden, known as Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna, and Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich. She was their only daughter, and she had six brothers. Her marriage to Friedrich Franz, the Hereditary Grand Duke [read more]
I recently received this book, Royal Love Stories, by Gill Paul from Ivy Press. It has the amazing Princess Grace of Monaco on the cover, so I was quite excited. The book talks about 14 love stories, some recent and some not so recent. From history it mentions Peter I of Portugal & Inez de [read more]
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