Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot Tiara is “set with brilliant- and rose-cut diamonds, mainly in cut-down silver-backed settings, and 19 pendant baroque pearls.” The design of Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot tiara was based on a tiara that belonged to Queen Mary’s grandmother, Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, Duchess of Cambridge. The latter tiara was later left to Mary’s [read more]
Archduchess Maria of Austria was born on 15 May 1531 as the daughter of the future Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. She was their fifth child and third daughter. She was just 15 years old when she married William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, the brother of Anne of Cleves, who [read more]
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]
The story of Moses and the Princess who saved him in Egypt is known in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. But who was the royal who saved such an important figure in the Abrahamic religions? The story of Moses is written in the Book of Exodus in the Bible and Torah. Called Thermouthis, Bithiah, Merris or [read more]
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