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Marie Antoinette’s Darkest Days: Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie by Will Bashor Book Review

Tuesday, 2 May 2017, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family’s arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the “waiting room for the guillotine” because prisoners only spent a day or two here before their [read more]
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Diana Princess of Wales

Iconic images of Diana, Princess of Wales, to go on display at Althorp

Monday, 1 May 2017, 17:00 Moniek Bloks 0
A total of 15 iconic images of Diana, Princess Wales are to go on display at Althorp this week. Althorp has been the family home of the Spencers since 1508 and it is also the final resting of Diana, Princess of Wales. The photos by Mario Testino were taken 1997 and turned out to be the [read more]
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Catherine Charlotte de Gramont

Princesses Consort of Monaco – Catherine Charlotte de Gramont

Monday, 1 May 2017, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Catherine Charlotte de Gramont was born in 1639 as the daughter of Marshal Antoine de Gramont and Françoise Marguerite du Plessis, a niece of Cardinal Richelieu. In 1660, she married Louis I of Monaco. She was three years older than him, and rumours went around that she was still unmarried because she had been in love [read more]
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Charlotte of Monaco

Princess Charlotte – The illegitimate daughter

Wednesday, 26 April 2017, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 4
Charlotte wasn’t born a Princess and at the time of her birth nobody probably even imagined the role she would go on to play. She was born as Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet on 30 September 1898 as the illegitimate daughter of Marie Juliette Louvet, a cabaret singer and Louis Grimaldi, who was at the time [read more]
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Queen Aishwarya and the massacre of the royal family

Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 7:00 Brittani Barger 2
Queen Aishwarya of Nepal was born as Lady Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi on 7 November 1949 in Lazimpat Durbar, Kathmandu. Aishwarya was the daughter of General Kendra Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana and Shree Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah. Her family was from the former ruling Rana dynasty of Nepal. She would later meet a tragic end at the hands of her son. [read more]
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Princesses Consort of Monaco – Ippolita Trivulzio

Monday, 24 April 2017, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Ippolita Trivulzio was born around 1600 as the daughter of Carlo Emanuele Teodoro Trivulzio, Count of Melzo and his wife, Caterina Gonzaga. She married Honoré II, Prince of Monaco on 13 February 1616 and was the first consort to bear the title of Princess. At the time of her marriage, she was described as “demure, [read more]

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