The War Queens: Extraordinary Women Who Ruled the Battlefield Hardcover – 10 March 2020 (US) & 26 March 2020 (UK) History’s killer queens come in all colors, ages, and leadership styles. Elizabeth Tudor and Golda Meir played the roles of high-stakes gamblers who studied maps with an unblinking, calculating eye. Angola’s Queen Njinga was willing to [read more]
The American Duchess Paperback – 19 March 2020 (US) & 6 February 2020 (UK) Life has always been made difficult for those marrying into England’s royal family. In 1936, just months into his reign, King Edward VIII proposed to Wallis Simpson, a divorced American woman. Gossip ran wild, and that cacophony of speculation and distrust both [read more]
The Royal Hashemite Court has announced the death of Her Royal Highness Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, the former Queen of Jordan, who died today – 21 August 2019 – in Amman. Princess Dina’s funeral march will take place this afternoon at the Royal Guard Mosque and she will then be buried in the Royal Tombs. Princess [read more]
An embroidered altar cloth, which may have been part of a dress worn by Queen Elizabeth I, will go on display for the first time at Hampton Court Place. The so-called “Bacton Altar Cloth” was discovered in Herefordshire and the curators at Historic Royal Palaces believe that it once formed part of a dress worn [read more]
Sophie of Württemberg was born in Stuttgart on 17 June 1818 as the daughter of King William I of Württemburg and his second wife Catherine Pavlovna of Russia. Her mother died just seven months after her birth. She never grew close to her father’s third wife and new stepmother Pauline of Württemberg. She was very [read more]
Anna Pavlovna was born on 18 January 1795 as the daughter of Paul I of Russia and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg, who was known as Maria Feodorovna after marriage. She was their eighth child. Anna was just six years old when her father was assassinated, and he was succeeded by her 23-year-old brother Alexander I. [read more]
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