Anna Komnene was a Byzantine princess, the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and his wife Irene Doukaina. She was born in the purple – meaning during her father’s reign and in the Porphyra Chamber of the imperial palace in Constantinople, making her a porphyrogenita. She is perhaps best known for her attempt to [read more]
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is perhaps the most famous woman alive and yet we actually know very little about her. We will probably have to wait until her death to be provided with an official biography and until then we are left grasping at what we can see in the press. Elizabeth [read more]
The death of Queen Victoria truly was the end of an era and when the end finally came on 22 January 1901, she was surrounded by her family. Curtain down at Her Majesty’s includes quotes, letters and diary entries from those who were there. Also included are the bulletins that at some point were issued [read more]
While most will remember the last Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, not all will remember Nicholas’s mother who managed to escape the revolution. Maria Feodorovna was born Dagmar of Denmark on 26 November 1847 as the daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel. Her sister was Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, the wife [read more]
When the future Queen Elizabeth II was born on 21 April 1926 to the then Duke and Duchess of York, no one expected that this little girl would one day become Queen. At the time, her uncle, the Prince of Wales and later King Edward VIII, was still young and still expected to marry and produce [read more]
Margaret Tudor was born on 28 November 1489 as the eldest daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. Early in her life, her future marriage was already being discussed. On 24 January 1502 Scotland and England concluded the Treaty of Perpetual Peace, which included the marriage between Margaret and James IV of Scotland. The [read more]
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