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Queen Mary of Denmark

Royal Wedding Recollections – Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark & Mary Donaldson

Mary Donaldson met her future husband, Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, on 16 September 2000 during the 2000 Summer Olympics. He travelled back and forth between Denmark, and they conducted a long-distance relationship. Mary briefly worked in Paris before making the final move to Denmark. On 24 September 2003, it was announced that Frederik’s mother, [read more]

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Book News

Book News Week 20

*contains affiliate links* Book News Week 20 – 13 May – 19 May 2024 Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait  Hardcover – 14 May 2024 (US) The Times British Royal Fashion  Hardcover – 14 May 2024 (US) The Boleyns: From the Tudors to the Windsors  Paperback – 15 May 2024 (UK) Royal Inbreeding and Other Maladies: A [read more]

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Book Reviews

Book Review: Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific World by Jennifer Thigpen

*review copy* *contains affiliate links* Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai’i’s Pacific World is a book that focuses on the relationship between Hawaiian royalty and the mission wives who arrived in Hawaii to bring Christianity. The Hawaiian queens are immensely fascinating, and this book had the opportunity to be so [read more]

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Catherine Parr

See the Firebrand trailer here

Firebrand is based on Elizabeth Fremantle’s novel Queen’s Gambit and focuses on her life as the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII of England. Filming began in April 2022, and the film premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Alicia Vikander stars as Katherine Parr, while Jude Law stars as King Henry VIII. [read more]

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Mary of Teck

Queen Mary’s Sautoir

Queen Mary’s Sautoir consists of “37 graduated cushion-cut brilliants in rub-over and pierced collet settings, each separated by three small brilliants, similarly set. The sautoir unfastens to form two necklaces, one of 19 and one of ten large stones, and two bracelets, each of four large stones.” The sautoir was made in 1928 from a [read more]