Maria of Aragon was born on 29 June 1482 as the daughter of Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon. Her mother had been pregnant with twins, and Maria’s twin was stillborn a day and a half later. It is unclear if her twin was a boy or a girl. Maria [read more]
Queen Mary’s Cluster Earrings are “each with a large cushion-cut brilliant with two concentric millegrain and pavé-set bands of small diamonds.” Embed from Getty Images Queen Mary had the earrings created in 1939 by having the Mackinnon diamonds removed. These diamonds had initially been a pair of solitaire earrings given to her for her wedding [read more]
Read part one here. However, Maria now also wished to see her mother despite her brother’s attempt to persuade her. She had renounced all possibilities of a marriage, forcing her brother to make another decision. She “decided to remain single and in the kingdom, in the midst of her friends, her books and the poor, [read more]
Read part one here. During her regency in Spain, she took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience as the only woman in the male-only Jesuit order under a pseudonym, Mateo Sánchez. This was only allowed on the condition that her membership be kept an absolute secret. As a powerful protector of the Jesuits, she intervened [read more]
Joanna of Austria was born in Madrid on 24 June 1535 as the daughter of Isabella of Portugal and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. She would be their last surviving child, and she had two elder surviving siblings: the future King Philip II of Spain and Maria of Austria. At the time of her birth, [read more]
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