At the end of December 1473, King Henry IV of Castile had several meetings with his half-sister Isabella in Segovia. He agreed to meet with her at the Alcazar, which was reportedly quite cordial. Isabella had gone from his chosen heiress to a repudiated heiress in the last years, and their relationship had been complicated. [read more]
Christina of Denmark was born in November 1521 as the daughter of Isabella of Austria and King Christian II of Denmark. The exact date has not been left to us. She had two elder siblings, John (born 1518) and Dorothea (born 1520). Her mother was a sister of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. At the [read more]
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The late Princess Birgitta of Sweden wasn’t in the Swedish line of succession. Princess Birgitta was born in 1937 as the second daughter of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Her siblings are Princess Margaretha (born 1934), Princess Désirée (born), Princess Christina (born 1943) and the current King [read more]
The Nine Provinces Tiara is a versatile tiara belonging to the Belgian Royal Family. The tiara was a wedding gift to Princess Astrid of Sweden when she married the future King Leopold III of Belgium. The tiara was made in 1926 by a Belgian jeweller named Van Bever and was a gift on behalf of [read more]
The Spanish Inquisition was established by King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile in 1478. They were given a Papal Bull by Pope Sixtus IV, and they first used to appoint two inquisitors in 1480 in Seville to seek out heretics. It focused mainly on those who had been forced to [read more]
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