Anna of Austria was born on 7 July 1528 as the daughter of the future Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. She was the third of their fifteen children. Anna seemed fine just after her birth, but she fell ill shortly afterwards, and she received an emergency baptism as a [read more]
I had the opportunity to do a short question and answer session with the author of “The Crown Dissected: An Analysis of the Netflix Series The Crown Seasons 1, 2 and 3”, Hugo Vickers. We spoke about his book that analyses The Crown, as well as the main focus of the Netflix show, Queen Elizabeth [read more]
A black silk and velvet evening gown embellished with beads and sequins that used to belong to Alexandra of Denmark, who became Queen of the United Kingdom as the wife of King Edward VII, has been discovered hidden away in a private collection. The dress date to around 1908-1910. It was designed for Queen Alexandra [read more]
Blanche of Lancaster was the mother of King Henry IV of England and the grandmother of King Henry V, but she was never a Queen herself. Blanche was born in either 1345 or 1347 to Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (a great-grandson of King Henry III) and his wife, Isabel de Beaumont. Henry [read more]
According to the Daily Express, Lady Godiva’s former home is on sale for £3 million. The property is in Belbroughton, which is a village in the Bromsgrove District of Worcestershire, England, and sits on 34 acres. She lived in the home around 1,000 years ago before the Normans invaded in 1066. However, the Daily Express did say that the “manor house from [read more]
Women were first allowed to take part in the 1900 Paris Olympics Games, and since 1991 all new sports wanting to be included must include a women’s event. The first royal woman I found to have joined the Olympics was Queen Sofia of Spain, then still a Princess of Greece and Denmark. She took part [read more]
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