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]
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]
*contains affiliate links* Margaret was born in late July 1522 as the illegitimate daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Johanna Maria van der Gheynst, the daughter of a carpet manufacturer. Johanna Maria worked as a maid for the Governor of Oudenaarde, who hosted the then 22-year-old and unmarried Charles for six weeks. Margaret [read more]
The Golden Women (Gouden Vrouwen) exhibition in the Stadsmuseum in Rhenen finally sees some of its treasures return home. The items on display were found in the area in 1951 in the largest medieval burial ground in the Netherlands. Around 1100 men, women and children from the period between 400 and 800 were buried there, [read more]
The National Portrait Gallery has announced a new exhibition – Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens. The new exhibition will chronicle the representation of the six Queens: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr, through the works of Hans Holbein and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. The [read more]
The city of Breda has a deep connection to the Dutch Royal Family due to the marriage of the 11-year-old heiress Johanna van Polanen, the only child of John III, Lord of Polanen and the Lord of Breda, and Engelbert I, Count of Nassau. They were the great-great-grandparents of William I, Prince of Orange and [read more]
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