History

The English Queens of France

On an autumn day, over 500 years ago, Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, marriedthe French king, Louis XII. The spectacular ceremony in Abbeville in Northern France transformed Mary into the Queen of France. No other English princess held that title after her. In fact, only one other daughter of a King of England had married a King of France when Eadgifu of Wessex married…
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Features

Marie Antoinette's diamonds up for sale

Diamonds once worn by Marie Antoinette are going up for auction later this year. Two diamond bracelets belonging to the ill fated queen are set to go under the hammer in Geneva in November. The gems form part of the collection that Marie Antoinette had sent from France…
Opinion

A King's Husband and a Queen's wife - what would we call a gay monarch's spouse?

Around the same time that the UK introduced new succession laws that allowed girls the same rights as boys, the country also passed same sex marriage legislation. But royal laws haven’t caught up with that yet. In the future, as is the case in most European countries, a prince may take a husband and a princess may choose a wife. But when that happens, what title will be bestowed on them? We…
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Monaco

Princess Charlene rushed to hospital

Reports have emerged that Princess Charlene has been rushed to hospital in South Africa. Channel 24 reported that the Princess was taken to a hospital in Durban on September 1st 2021 after collapsing. The channel shared a comment from the Prince’s Palace in…
Monaco

Prince Albert says Princess Charlene could be back in Monaco sooner than planned

Prince Albert says his wife, Princess Charlene, is ”ready to come home”, just days after the couple were photographed together during a reunion thousands of miles from Monaco. Charlene has been in South Africa since May and has been unable to fly back to the principality because of an ENT infection that followed surgery for a sinus graft. In recent weeks, she has undergone a four…
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