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Elisabeth of Valois

Elisabeth of Valois – “A right Spaniard!”

Thursday, 23 April 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Elisabeth of Valois was born on 2 April 1545 as the daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de’ Medici. She was born in the Château de Fontainebleau. Elisabeth was their second child. Her elder brother was King Francis II of France, who was married to Mary, Queen of Scots. She would have [read more]
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Anne Marie Louise of Orleans

Marie of Bourbon – The Montpensier heiress

Saturday, 30 November 2019, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Marie of Bourbon was born on 15 October 1605 as the daughter of Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier and Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse, Duchess of Joyeuse in her own right. She would turn out to be their only child and her father died on 27 February 1608 – making her Duchess of Montpensier in [read more]
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Elizabeth Patterson

The Bonaparte Women – Elizabeth Patterson (Part three)

Saturday, 12 October 2019, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Read part one here. Read part two here. By 1824, Elizabeth returned to America to find her father did not want her in his house – he had moved a mistress in. She wanted nothing more than to return to Europe immediately but could not do so until the following year. This time, she would [read more]
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Elizabeth Patterson

The Bonaparte Women – Elizabeth Patterson (Part two)

Friday, 11 October 2019, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Read part one here. Elizabeth was enthusiastically welcomed back in the Baltimore society, but her father had been left with her husband’s debts. He was – understandably – quite angry. Then the letters Jérôme had written, finally began to arrive. Elizabeth became optimistic once more, but as more letters came in, this waned somewhat. Jérôme [read more]
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Elisabeth in Bavaria

Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria – Between duty and love

Wednesday, 2 October 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria was born on 22 February 1847 at 5.20 in the morning as the daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria. She would be one of eight (surviving) siblings, and her sisters included Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Helene, Marie Sophie and Mathilde Ludovika. She was their penultimate [read more]
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Blanche of Valois

Blanche of Valois – The French Queen of Bohemia

Sunday, 1 September 2019, 0:00 CaraBeth 2
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia married four times.  His first wife was Blanche of Valois.  They both met as children at the French court.  The marriage of Blanche and Charles was one of four royal marriages that tied the Bohemian royal family to the French royal family in the 14th century. [read more]

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