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Catherine de' Medici

Review: The Serpent Queen (2022) – Episode 2

Sunday, 25 September 2022, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 0
*contains affiliate links* *spoilers* The Serpent Queen is back as Catherine once again summons Rahima – having picked her as her maid. Her fellow servants now turn against her and try to sabotage her. Catherine believes that Rahima is not responsible for the prank and turns into another lesson. We continue with Catherine’s past as [read more]
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Elisabeth in Bavaria

Empress Elisabeth’s famous diamond stars

Saturday, 24 September 2022, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Empress Elisabeth of Austria’s most iconic portrait is the one by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, in which she wore the diamond stars in her hair. The stars were ordered by the Empress from jewellers Köchert and Pioté in Vienna. They consisted of diamonds and a centre pearl. Some of the stars were given to her ladies-in-waiting, [read more]
The Greville Ivy-leaf Clips
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The Greville Ivy-leaf Clips

Friday, 23 September 2022, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
The Greville Ivy-leaf Clips were from the collection of Dame Margaret Greville, the wife of the Hon. Ronald Greville. Margaret and her husband had had no children, and she bequeathed all her jewellery to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother upon her death in 1942. The clips were made for Margaret by Cartier. One of them [read more]
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The Royal Mistresses Series

Frances Stewart – The unrequited love of King Charles II

Wednesday, 21 September 2022, 6:00 Amy Eloise Kelly 0
King Charles II ruled over England, Scotland and Ireland from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 until his death in 1685. Before Charles’ reign, there had been the English Civil War, followed by a period called The Interregnum, an 11-year period of rule by a largely Puritan government without a monarch. Due to this [read more]
The final farewell of Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II

[Photogallery] The final farewell of Queen Elizabeth II (Part three)

Tuesday, 20 September 2022, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Read part two here. For four days, Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin lay in state in Westminster Hall as mourners filed past. Embed from Getty Images On 16 September, the late Queen’s four children, King Charles III, the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex, kept vigil over the coffin. Embed from [read more]
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The royal tombs of Roskilde Cathedral

Monday, 19 September 2022, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
The first church on the site of Roskilde Cathedral was built by Harold Bluetooth, who died around 985. This was a wooden church, and no traces of it have ever been found. This wooden church was replaced in the 1000s by a stone church by King Cnut’s sister Estrid from money she received after he [read more]

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