Jane Boleyn, born Parker, was the wife of George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, the brother of Queen Anne Boleyn. George and Anne had both been executed in 1536. Jane was a distant cousin of King Henry VIII of England, being a descendant of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso, the maternal grandmother of King Henry VII. She grew [read more]
The Palais Leuchtenberg was built in the 19th century for Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg, and it was the largest palace in Munich. Between 1853 and 1933, it was known as the Luitpold Palais. It currently houses the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance. Eugène de Beauharnais, husband of Princess Augusta of Bavaria, the sister [read more]
The Theatine Church in Munich, Germany, was built from 1663 to 1690, as a thanksgiving for the birth of Prince Max Emanuel, the heir of Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria and his wife, Henriette Adelaide of Savoy. It was built in the Italian high-baroque style and was designed by Agostino Barelli. The facade was only [read more]
Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography has now opened at The King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace. The new exhibition, which features 150 items from the Royal Collection and the Royal Archives, tracks the evolution of royal portrait photography over the last 100 years. Alessandro Nasini, curator of Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography, said, ‘The [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]
Text by Brittani Barger Born on 22 June 1932 in the English Missionary Hospital in Isfahan, Iran, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary was the elder child and only daughter of Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary and his German wife, Eva Karl. Soraya was introduced to the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, in 1948. The Shah had recently divorced his first [read more]
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