Margaret of Wessex was born circa 1045 in exile in Hungary to Edward the Exile and Agatha (of unknown origin). She was thus a granddaughter of the King of England, Edmund Ironside. After the Danish conquest, her father was exiled to firstly to Sweden and then to Kiev. He relocated to Hungary as an adult. [read more]
The first two creations of the Dukedom of Cambridge were for the sons of the future James II and his first wife, Anne Hyde. Both boys died young and thus never had children themselves. The third creation was for the future George II, who was styled as Duke and Marquess of Cambridge from 9 November [read more]
Many royal women sought a religious life, especially after the deaths of their husbands or even from their early childhood. I have compiled a list, probably incomplete, of many of those female saints. Adelaide of Italy Adelaide was born around 931 and she was respectively Queen of Italy as the wife of Lothair II of [read more]
On 8 February 1587 at the age of 44 and after 20 years of imprisonment, Mary Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringhay Castle after being implicated in the Babington plot. She was only told she would be executed the day before and she wrote several things, including her last will and testament. Mary to [read more]
I just finished watching this 2013 film about Mary, Queen of Scots with the same name. I do not believe that this has been widely distributed and that really is a shame. This movie is partly in English and partly in French and begins with Mary as a baby with her mother. I love that [read more]
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