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Marie Mancini

Marie Mancini – Princess Colonna (Part three)

Friday, 4 December 2020, 6:00 Amy Eloise Kelly 0

Read part two here. Marie Mancini and King Louis XIV were still deeply in love with each other despite Marie being sent away from the French court by her uncle Cardinal Mazarin and Louis being due to marry another woman. All the Cardinal could do now was be direct with the King, and he wrote [read more]

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Marie Mancini – The love of King Louis XIV (Part two)

Wednesday, 2 December 2020, 6:00 Amy Eloise Kelly 0

Read part one here. The travelling and the hectic nature of court life did not agree with fourteen-year-old Marie, and she began to feel unwell and looked “a pitiful state” after a few weeks at the French court. It was decided that Marie and young Hortense should return to a convent for a while for [read more]

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The Royal Women

Mary Stuart O’Donnell – An Irish Lady in exile (Part two)

Friday, 28 February 2020, 6:00 Amy Eloise Kelly 1

In part one of Mary Stuart O’Donnell’s story, we learned of how she was born after most of her family fled Ireland for the continent in The Flight of the Earls 1607. Mary was raised by her mother in Donegal and then by her grandmother Lady Kildare in London. Mary was due to inherit her [read more]

Claudia Octavia

Claudia Octavia – The neglected Empress

Monday, 3 February 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Claudia Octavia, or just Octavia, was born in late 39 AD or early 40 AD as the only daughter of the Emperor Claudius of the Roman Empire by his third wife, Valeria Messalina. Her father became Emperor in 41 AD, and she had a younger brother named Britannicus born around that time. Her mother was [read more]




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