Princess Wen Jiang (also known as Princess Jiang Shi) was known as one of China’s most debased princesses.[1] She has often been depicted as “lascivious and reckless.”[2] Her incestuous affair with her brother, Duke Xiang of Qi, was said to have caused “disorder, which led to misfortune and disaster.”[3] Yet, Princess Wen Jiang was said to [read more]
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Read part two here. On 14 November 1501, Catherine and Arthur finally married in person at St Paul’s Cathedral. She chose to marry in white. She wore a long white satin skirt over a farthingale (which created a hoop shape), pleated in folds. Her face was covered with a white veil with gold edges and [read more]
Princess Claire of Belgium began wearing this pearl and diamond tiara in 2010. Embed from Getty Images Its first outing was for the royal wedding of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Daniel Westling. The tiara features a fleur-de-lis pattern against vertical lines topped with half-pearl buttons. She has since worn it to two more [read more]
Read part one here. However, she was still very malnourished from all the fasting she had done, and she died within an hour of giving birth. A historian at court wrote to the Archbishop of Braga, “The mother [Queen Isabella] was large, while the daughter [Isabella] was so consumed by her thinness that she did [read more]
On 26 November 1504, Queen Isabella I of Castile died at the age of 53. Her husband, King Ferdinand II of Aragon, announced her death to the waiting public and sent messengers across the country with the news. On a hastily erected stand, the Duke of Alba raised Queen Isabella’s banner three times while announcing, [read more]
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