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Germany

Wilhelmshöhe Palace and Löwenburg Castle

Wednesday, 18 September 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is home to the Wilhelmshöhe Palace or rather what is left of it after it was bombed during the Second World War. The middle part of it was reconstructed to serve as an art museum. The artwork is simply amazing, and they had an entire exhibition dedicated to Rembrandt’s Saskia, but they also [read more]
Franziskaner-Klosterkirche
Kunigunde of Poland

The Franziskaner-Klosterkirche ruins in Berlin

Wednesday, 4 September 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
The Franziskaner-Klosterkirche was founded in 1250 as a monastery church. It evolved over the years but was closed during the Reformation in 1539. The monastic buildings are gone now but the church continued to evolve. The church was destroyed during the bombing of Berlin on 3 April 1945. The ruins were not secured until 1959 [read more]
antwerp cathedral
Belgium

Charlotte of Bourbon’s grave at the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp

Wednesday, 14 August 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 1
Charlotte of Bourbon was born in 1546 or 1547 as the daughter of Louis, Duke of Montpensier and Jacqueline de Longwy, Countess of Bar-Sur-Seine. Her father supposedly intended for her to enter the church as well as some of her sisters, as he did not wish to pay a dowry for all of them. She [read more]
inverness
Mary Queen of Scots

Inverness Castle and Mary, Queen of Scots

Wednesday, 7 August 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 2
In 1562, Mary, Queen of Scots visited Inverness Castle – or rather, she tried to. On 9 September, the gates of the castle were closed to her by Alexander Gordon on the order of the 4th Earl of Huntly. Subsequently, Mary’s supporters besieged the castle for three days until it finally fell. Alexander Gordon was [read more]
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Eleonore and Simone – Princesses in the cemetery

Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Sometimes lesser known royals do not end up in grand mausoleums and are buried among us commoners. Two of these Princesses – Eleonore of Lippe Weissenfeld and Simone Arnoux – are buried in The Hague at the Oud Eik en Duinen cemetery. Eleonore of Lippe Weissenfeld was born on 11 August 1913 in Dresden as the daughter of [read more]
Elisabeth of Bohemia

The Cistercian Abbey of Zbraslav

Tuesday, 5 February 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
The Cistercian Abbey of Zbraslav near Prague was a very significant monastery in the Kingdom of Bohemia. It was founded in 1292 by King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and several members of the Přemyslid dynasty are buried there. The abbey was abolished in 1789 by Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor. It was briefly used as [read more]

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