Read part one here. Read part three here. Read part four here. On her first day as Duchess of York, Elizabeth awoke at 11 o’clock and had breakfast in bed. She was exhausted by all the events of the previous months. They honeymooned in Scotland where Elizabeth fell ill. She was still ill when they [read more]
Read the first part here. Hortense was now free to respond to the charms of Charles de Flahaut, a man she had long admired. She was staying in Geneva when she met him as he was part of her mother’s entourage. They could not be together long as his military duties required him to go [read more]
While doing research for my next book, I stumbled upon a wedding that took place at Schloss Bückeburg, between Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz and Wilhelm Ernst, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Their wedding took place there as the young woman’s parents had passed and she was under the guardianship of her maternal uncle, Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, who happened [read more]
Upon the death of King William III his only surviving child, Princess Wilhelmina became Queen at the age of 10. As she had no siblings, her potential successor at that time was her aunt Sophie, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Her father’s other siblings had all died without leaving issue. Queen Wilhelmina married Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on 7 February [read more]
During the evening of 21 August 1930, a second daughter was born to the then Duke and Duchess of York at Glamis Castle in Scotland. Her elder sister, the future Queen Elizabeth II, was delighted, “I have got a new little baby sister. She is so lovely, and I am very, very happy to have [read more]
Netflix has just released the trailer for their new film “Outlaw King” about Robert the Bruce, later King Robert I of Scotland. I imagine some of his female relatives, especially his wife Elizabeth de Burgh, will feature as they suffered immensely during the First War of Scottish Independence. Read more about their imprisonment here. Also [read more]
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