Many of you will not know the city of Leeuwarden in the north of the Netherlands, but its Fries Museum is currently home to the exhibition Icons: topstukken uit de National Portrait Gallery (or translated: Icons – Masterpieces from the National Portrait Gallery). They were able to borrow many masterpieces from the National Portrait Gallery [read more]
A ruby and diamond bangle, which was a first-anniversary wedding present to the Duchess of Windsor from her husband, is set to be auctioned on 9 November in Geneva. The order for the bangle was probably placed with Cartier Paris earlier in the year 1938 and was delivered to the Duke of Windsor shortly before [read more]
Born on 10 December 2014, Princess Gabriella is Monaco’s youngest princess. She is the only daughter of Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene of Monaco and holds the full title of Her Serene Highness Princess Gabriella Thérèse Marie of Monaco, Countess of Carladès. Gabriella was born in Monaco’s Princess Grace Hospital Centre, two minutes ahead [read more]
“Being the daughter of a King can be hard, but it can also be an exceptional opportunity.” Princess Marie-Esmeralda of Belgium was born on 30 September 1956 as the youngest daughter of King Leopold III of Belgium, who had abdicated in 1951, and his second wife Lilian, Princess of Réthy. From her father’s first marriage [read more]
Read part one here. Nevertheless, Maria Amalia was quickly pregnant with her first child, which turned out to be a short-lived girl born in 1723. A second daughter – named Maria Antonia Walpurgis – was born on 18 July 1724, followed by a third daughter – named Theresa Benedicta – on 6 December 1725. The [read more]
On 28 September 2006, Empress Maria Feodorovna, born Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was finally buried next to her beloved husband at the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia. While her husband, Emperor Alexander III of Russia, had died in 1894, Maria Feodorovna had lived through the Russian Revolution and had only begrudgingly fled [read more]
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