Royal Women

Posthumous portrait painted by Michael Pacher in cirka 1490. A wealthy heiress, Mary of Burgundy was one of the most eligible bachelorett...

Statue of Berenguela of Castile in Madrid (1753) A granddaughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine, and heiress to the kingdom of Castile, Berenga...

Richard and Joan greet Philip II of France Married away to a foreign king at the age of only eleven, Princess Joan of England had to ad...

Elisabeth painted by François Clouet in 1571. Considered as a great beauty and a very intellectual woman, Elisabeth was married off to ...

As I am Norwegian myself, I thought to present to you one of our queens, Christina of Saxony, or Christine av Sachsen as she is known as...

A woman loved by both the people and her husband, she had a strong political influence over her husband the King, until the day he reali...

by Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier d'Agoty, 1775 She could have been a Queen of France had she not died, and she was the first of her gen...

(photo from a tapestry) The woman to whom "The Book of the Duchess" by Geoffrey Chaucer is dedicated to, Blanche of Lancaste...

Born Anne Stanhope cirka 1497 to Sir Edward Stanhope of Sudbury and Elizabeth Bourchier, Anne was through her mother a direct descendant o...

Born as a king’s daughter, but deprived of the title “princess”, Leonora Christina was married to a traitorous and somewhat stupid man (st...