Maria Manuela of Portugal was born on 15 October 1527 as the daughter of King John III of Portugal and his wife, Catherine of Austria. She was their second child but the first surviving one. Seven more siblings would follow, but just one brother would live long enough to father an heir. The archbishop of [read more]
Germaine of Foix was born in 1488 as the daughter of John of Foix, Viscount of Narbonne, a son of Eleanor, Queen of Navarre, and Marie of Orléans, a sister of King Louis XII of France. A younger brother named Gaston was born the following year. There were likely more siblings, who did not survive. [read more]
Sarah Margaret Ferguson was born on 15 October 1959 as the daughter of Ronald Ferguson and Susan Wright. She has an older sister named Jane. Embed from Getty Images Following her parents’ divorce in 1974, her father remarried to Susan Deptford and had further three children. Her mother remarried to Héctor Barrantes. The divorce was [read more]
In March 1469, the future King Ferdinand II of Aragon and his father, King John II, had signed the Capitulaciones de Cervera, which stated that Ferdinand had the right to administer justice in Castile, but everything else would have to be agreed upon by Isabella. He was not even allowed to leave Castile without Isabella’s [read more]
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Amestris Shahbanu was one of the most powerful Persian Queens during the Babylonian Empire.[1] She was Queen to King Xerxes I and the mother of King Artaxerxes I. Greek historians, Herodotus and Ctesias, have portrayed her to be as a ruthless Queen who has an unquenchable thirst for blood.[2] However, modern historians believe this depiction of [read more]
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