For the occasion, Queen Máxima wore a jaw-dropping set featuring the red gemstone that King William originally gifted to ...

But within the families of kings and queens, royals who married their relatives were not unusual, even as recently as the ...

Fourteenth-century English king Edward III’s devoted wife of over 40 years, Philippa of Hainault ... Hollman presents the queen as a steadfast and mostly traditional matriarch, who periodically ...

Philippa of Hainaut (24 June 1314 – 15 August 1369) was Queen of England as the wife of King Edward III. Edward, Duke of Guyenne, her future husband, promised in 1326 to marry her within the following ...

Before becoming the Queen of England, she was Princess ‘Charlotte of Mecklenburg ... Another debate is that the first Black Queen of the Royal Family was Philippa of Hainault, consort of Edward III.

Murder of Queen Brunhild, 613 Brunhild, who lived around 543–613, became the queen consort of the Frankish kingdom of Austrasia through her marriage to King Sigebert I.

Queen Isabella, consort ... Hainault – Edward III’s queen – also made donations to the church, helping to fund its roofing. Queen Philippa’s eldest daughter, Princess Isabella of England ...

Of the nine children of Queen Victoria’s children ... Edward had married Philippa of Hainault at York Minster twenty years prior to this date. Other medieval wedding venues included the more ...

Cracking open a Philippa Gregory novel is like yanking down ... She is, or will be, or serves, a queen. Some beady-eyed adviser is going to warn her about the imprudence of defying His Majesty.

He was returned to England and a great procession accompanied the cortege ... This was supervised by John Thirske and encroaches on the tombs of Eleanor of Castile and Philippa of Hainault in the ...

Twenty-eight queens consort ... England. After years of in-fighting, she deposed her husband, Edward II, in favour of their son, Edward III. She acted as regent on his behalf before he forcibly took ...

Queen Camilla's reality is like something from fiction, so it's no surprise her most interesting facts are full of variety and larger-than-life anecdotes. Chasing true love - despite some controversy, ...