Éléanore de Bourbon was born on 30 April
1587 to Henri I de Bourbon and his second wife Charlotte Catherine
de la Tremoille. She was closely related to the French royal family
as her father was a first cousin of King Henry IV of France. She
had a half-sister from her father’s previous marriage and a full
brother, who succeeded to their father’s titles. Her future husband
was the son…
A group of Indians have recently
announced their intention to take legal action against The Queen in
a bid to reclaim the Koh-i-noor Diamond that is presently a part of
the Crown Jewels. The Koh-i-noor, which means “mountain of light,”
was mined in India around…
Born as the last of the children of
Empress Maria Theresia and the Holy Roman Emperor, Francis Stephen,
the future Queen of France Marie Antoinette, was also the imperial
couple’s fifteenth child and eleventh daughter. She was born on
November 2 1755, the Feast of the Dead…
The second Princess of Orange, and also
William the Silent’s second wife, is probably the most scandalous
of them all. She was born on 23 December 1544 in Dresden as the
daughter of Maurice, Elector of Saxony and Agnes of Hesse. She
would be their only surviving child and she grew up in the court of
the Saxony Electors. She was just nine when her father died and
continued her education at…
Queen Victoria’s beloved residence at
East Cowes on the Isle of Wight, is to open its doors to the public
again this winter, so that visitors can experience a truly
Victorian Christmas, in what was formerly a private royal and very
family, home. Built in the style of an…
One of the most distinctive and
unmistakable flowers in England is the Tudor Rose. This specific
type of rose is both red (around the outside) and white (in the
centre), and has been in use as the country’s plant emblem since
the Tudor Era. But there is more to the…
Growing up in the Royal Family is an
experience quite unlike the childhood many (if not all) of us had.
Although Prince Charles was lucky enough to have both his parents
in his life, they were both quite absent from his upbringing. This
was both due to the fact mummy and daddy are Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II and Prince Philip and the fact that the Queen was
frightened by the tough nanny Helen…
Anna of Egmont was born
around March 1533 as the daughter of Maximilian van Egmont and
Françoise de Lannoy. She would turn out to be their only child and
thus heiress to her father’s estates. Her father was an ally of
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and he was often…
Catherine Howard was born around 1520 as
the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper, and through
her father’s side of the family she was a first cousin of
Henry VIII’s second wife Anne Boleyn. Though she was of
aristocratic birth, her father was…
One of Britain’s most colourful King’s
and is easily most well known- but not for his heart-warming
personality. Henry VIII most extraordinary claim to fame would be
six wives and their unfortunate fates. Henry accomplished a lot
more in his time as King, like his changes to the English
Constitution and separation from the Church of England. Born the 28
June 1491, King Henry ascended…
