Senteni Masango, the eighth wife of Africa’s last absolute monarch, has died after allegedly committing suicide. She was found dead in the early hours of Friday morning. She reportedly took about 40 amitriptyline capsules, which are normally used to treat a number of mental illnesses. The Queen leaves behind two daughters. Only a week earlier, [read more]
King Henry I of England (r.1100-1135) holds the record for an English monarch with the most acknowledged illegitimate children. He is estimated to have had between 20 and 25 illegitimate children, most of them daughters. Unfortunately, not much is written of these daughters. The chroniclers seemed to care more about his illegitimate sons, especially Robert, [read more]
Read part one here. On 11 June 1509, Catherine finally became Queen of England, as the wife of King Henry VIII. Preparations immediately began for a joint coronation, and they were crowned on 24 June 1509 in Westminster Abbey. It was a happy match and Catherine was soon pregnant with her first child. On the [read more]
If there is one word that could safely characterise the life of Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia it would be “exile”. Even her birth happened in the margins of royal protocol and rules. Her parents, King Alexander of Greece and Aspasia Manos, a commoner and daughter of a Greek colonel, fell in love in 1915 and [read more]
This article was written by Sophie Strid. Hedvig Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp was born 22 March 1759 in Eutin, Germany. The youngest child of the Duke of Holstein-Oldenburg and Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel, Hedvig Elisabeth was Queen of Sweden from 1809 until 1818, as well as Queen of Norway from 1814. At the age of [read more]
Ostend in Belgium seems like an unlikely place for a palace. From 1834, the palace in Ostend was made available as a summer residence for King Leopold I and his second wife, Louise of Orléans. The house is perhaps best remembered as the place where Louise died of tuberculosis. She was often in ill-health and [read more]
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