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[historywithlaura]

MASTERPOST

I am revisiting my original posts to properly tag to their respective collection, so they can be added to this masterpost.

Last revisited post...

Marie Sophie of Palatinate-Neuburg, Queen of Portugal

An introduction...

Hello! I am Laura

These collections are already properly tagged... check them out!

Descendants of the Monarchs of Ireland

Descendants of the Kings of the Britons

On this day, July edition

Royal Facts & Events

Royal Weddings

This collection tagging is ongoing... but you can check it out!

On this day, August edition

These collections do not have a tag system yet.

On this day, September edition

On this day, November edition

Descendants of the Monarchs of Asturias

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I put the "Royal Weddings" collection under the completed list because all posts were tagged when they were published, but beware that I am far from done revisiting each post.

Regarding the "Royal Facts & Events" collection, I have decided to include only my original posts under this tag. For now, I have no idea how to group the reposts.

About the "Royal Families" and "Centuries" masterposts, Tumblr is giving me a headache with broken tags. So, these masterposts are not going to be published anytime soon.

[royalty-nobility]

King Louis-Philippe Surrounded by his Five Sons

Artist: Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)

Date: 1846

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

Description

Leaving through the main gate of the Palace of Versailles after a military review in the courtyards on June 10, 1837.

Louis Philippe I (1773 – 1850), nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, the penultimate monarch of France, the last French monarch to bear the title "King", and the only French monarch to descend from the Orléans branch of the Bourbon family. He abdicated from his throne during the French Revolution of 1848, which led to the foundation of the French Second Republic.

[royalty-nobility]

Queen Isabella II and her Daughter the Princess of Asturias

Artist: Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805–1873)

Date: 1852

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Patrimonio Nacional, Royal Palace of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Depicted People:

Isabella II of Spain 

Infanta Isabel, Countess of Gergenti

[elsalouisa]

"As a girl my mother must have been exquisite; Winterhalter’s portrait, and the one painted by Lauchert, prove it; she had a remarkable resemblance to the Empress Eugénie and, like the Empress, she kept her good looks until her latest years. That she looked so like Eugénie has historic interest from the fact that Napoleon III. wanted to marry her but, as she was a Protestant, my grandfather would not hear of it. Intellectually and physically mother was very alert and vivid, had the warmest of hearts, and used to enter into our fun and banterings with such verve and spirit that we seldom remembered she was older than ourselves. Very musical, with a wonderful touch and unerring ear, she could repeat any piece of music after one hearing; how she used to delight us after returning from the Opera by sitting down at the piano and playing whole scenes. Her contralto voice was full of soul and if a song was too high she would transpose it at sight for herself or for us; all through her life she was accustomed to improvise at the piano for our delight".

H.R.H. Princess Friedrich Leopold "Behind the Scenes at the Prussian Court"

[historywithlaura]

ADELHEID OF HOHENLOHE-LANGENBURG

Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg

(born 1835 - died 1900)

[margaritiques]

On the 1st of January 1536 King Henry 8th’s wife Queen Anne Boleyn was happily two months pregnant. His former wife Queen Catherine of Aragon was unhappily under house arrest far away in Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire. At the end of January Catherine was dead, Anne had miscarried a boy child and Henry was sending gifts to Jane Seymour. By the end of May, Anne, her brother George, and four others had been executed, and Henry had married Jane.

From Anne Boleyn. Her life as told by Lancelot de Carle’s 1536 Letter by Christopher Smith, published 2023.

[tiny-librarian]

A portrait of Maria Antonia of Austria, Electress of Bavaria. She was the only child of Leopold I and Margaret Theresa of Spain to survive infancy. She had the highest coefficient of inbreeding in the House of Habsburg, which is a number used to measure how inbred a person is.

The highest inbreeding coefficient in the Habsburg dynasty occurred in the Austrian branch where Marie Antoine of Habsburg, daughter of Emperor Leopold I and his niece Margaret of Spain (sister of Charles II of Spain), had an inbreeding coefficient of 0.3053, which is higher than the inbreeding coefficient of the progeny of an incestuous union (parent-offspring or brother-sister). Royal dynasties as human inbreeding laboratories: the Habsburgs

[dragonesdelaemperatriz]

Luckily, she married into the Electoral house of Wittelsbach and went on to have a child, Joseph Ferdinand, who during his brief life was the universal heir to the throne of Spain, in those days the largest empire in the world. Their untimely deaths (she herself also had rights to the throne) triggered the War of the Spanish Succession

[elsalouisa]

"It was considered healthy for us and good for our growing backs to lie flat on the floor for about an hour a day. Mademoiselle used to read to us whilst we underwent this daily trial. She kept on knitting stockings whilst she read. I remember watching her from my position beneath her, trying to reverse her face, making of her nose a chin, and a chin of her nose, but she remained hopelessly homely, as the Americans so politely call “ugly,” whichever way I imagined her face.

Stocking-knitting was for some reason considered a virtuous occupation for little girls. The turning of the heel, the decreasing and increasing it involved was comparable only to the geography of Switzerland and the Alps, with the lakes on both sides of these troublesome mountains. I cannot explain why, but there was always some connexion in my mind between the two. Later on Queen Victoria had a picture made of me by Millais, knitting a green stocking, which still hangs somewhere in Windsor Castle".

"The Story of My Life" Marie, Queen of Roumania

[roehenstart]

Capture of Calais by François I of Guise, Duke of Aumale (1519-1563), January 9. By François Edouard Picot.

[carloskaplan]

Nikola Mihaylov:  Retrato do Príncipe herdeiro Boris de Bulgaria cos seus irmáns Kiril, Nadejda e Eudoxia (1904)

[creeroumourir]

Gerard van Honthorst. ' Amalia and her Daughters watching the Triumph of Frederik Hendrik ', ca. 1650.

[tiny-librarian]

The Marriage of Princess Alice, 1st July 1862

The marriage of Princess Alice, the third child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and Prince Louis of Hesse took place ‘in the strictest privacy’ barely six months after the death of Prince Albert. The ceremony was held in the Dining Room at Osborne ‘which was very prettily decorated, the altar being placed under our large family picture’ (RCIN 405413), as the Queen recorded in her Journal. A portrait of Victoria, Duchess of Kent, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (RCIN 405129) also hangs on the back wall in this painting. The Archbishop of York stands behind the altar and Queen Victoria sits in the light from the window, with Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold next to her. The bridegroom’s parents, Prince and Princess Charles of Hesse, stand facing Queen Victoria. The bridesmaids were Princess Alice’s sisters – Princess Louise, Princess Helena and Princess Beatrice – and Princess Anna of Hesse.

[the-great-monarchies]

Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain

Mariana of Austria (Full Name: Maria Anna. 24 December 1634 – 16 May 1696) was Queen consort of Spain as the second wife of King Philip IV, who was also her maternal uncle. At the death of her husband in 1665, Queen Mariana became regent for her son Charles II, the last Spanish-Habsburg, and she remained an influential figure during his reign.

Born as Maria Anna on 24 December 1634 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, she was the granddaughter of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II. Her parents were Crown Prince Ferdinand and Maria Anna of Spain, the sister of Maria Anna’s future husband, King Philip IV of Spain. Her father, who would become Emperor in 1637, was as yet only King of Hungary and Bohemia, and was away for most of his wife’s pregnancy campaigning in the Thirty Years’ War. Her grandfather Emperor Ferdinand II died when she was 3 and her father became Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III.

Maria Anna, was the second of six children, three of which died in early childhood. Her oldest brother, Ferdinand IV of Hungary died young. Only Maria Anna and her younger brother, the future Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, lived to reach old age.

Queen Mariana is also known as a benefactress for funding in the mid-17th century the Jesuit voyage of Blessed Father Diego Luis de San Vitores and Saint Pedro Calungsod to Guam, in order to Catholicize the indigenous Chamorro people of her namesake Mariana Islands.

Note: the Habsburg dynasty is littered with royal intermarriage and inbreeding, Mariana herself married her maternal uncle, Philip IV (a marriage between an uncle/aunt and niece/nephew is called an Avunculate marriage), to us this may seem unusual or even taboo but for the Habsburg this was a way of keeping their “pure” royal blood even with the risks of hereditary diseases and mutations.

House of Habsburg 4/?

[royalty-nobility]

The Etrurian Royal Family

Artist: François-Xavier Fabre (French, 1766-1837)

Date: 1804

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

Painted in Florence, this canvas depicts Prince Luis I of Parma (1773-1803), who had died the previous year, and his wife, the Infanta María Luisa (1782-1824), daughter of Charles IV of Spain and María Luisa of Parma. Also included are their children, Carlo Ludovico (1799-1883), heir to the throne, and María Luisa Carlota (1802-1857), future wife of Maximilian, Prince of Saxony. In 1801 Napoleon granted Luis and María Luisa the Kingdom of Etruria, which was, however, suppressed by the Treaty of Fontainebleau in 1807 due to the fact that the King and Queen had offered refuge to some of Napoleon’s enemies.

[royalty-nobility]

Prince Otto of Bavaria, King of Greece

Artist: Joseph Karl Stieler (German, 1781–1858)

Date: 1833

Medium: Oil on canvas

Location: Bavarian Administration of State Palaces, Gardens and Lakes, Munich, Germany

Otto of Greece

Otto (1 June 1815 – 26 July 1867) was King of Greece from the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece on 27 May 1832, under the Convention of London, until he was deposed in October 1862.

Otto is depicted in the uniform of the Royal Bavarian Life Regiment. He wears the grand ribbon of the Order of St. Hubertus and the star of the Order of St. George. This depicts him as a member of the Bavarian royal family. The Acropolis in the background, however, indicates Otto's designated kingship in Greece.

[royalty-nobility]

Coronation of Emperor Charles V in Bologna (Couronnement de l'Empereur Charles Quint à Bologne)

Artist: After Gaspar de Crayer (Flemish, 1584–1669)

Date: 17th century

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban, France

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555. He was heir to and then head of the rising House of Habsburg. His dominions in Europe included the Holy Roman Empire, extending from Germany to northern Italy with rule over the Austrian hereditary lands and Burgundian Low Countries, and Spain with its possessions of the southern Italian kingdoms of Naples, Sicily and Sardinia. In the Americas, he oversaw the continuation of Spanish colonization and a short-lived German colonization. The personal union of the European and American territories he ruled was the first collection of realms labelled "the empire on which the sun never sets".

[venicepearl]

Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (22 April 1868 – 6 September 1924) was the third daughter and fourth and last child of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Her given name was Marie Valerie Mathilde Amalie, but she was usually called Valerie.

[archduchessofnowhere]

Widowed for two years, after his first wife Margarete of Saxony gave him no children, [archduke] Karl Ludwig had married in 1862 this princess [Maria Annunziata] of the branch of the Bourbons of Naples, who gave him three sons: the archdukes Franz Ferdinand, Otto and Ferdinand Karl [and also a daughter, archduchess Margarete]. However it soon became apparent that the young woman was suffering from tuberculosis, her frequent fits of coughing, her pale complexion being signs of the disease. Her condition aggravated at the beginning of 1871. [Archduchess] Sophie is worried: “If she took an inflammation of the lungs, she would succumb to it”, she fears at the beginning of January. By May 1, the situation became alarming: Maria Annunziata “was wasting away fast. She’s an skeleton”. Informed the next day that “Annunziata is worse and asked to be administered”, Sophie goes to see her immediately. She attends on her knees to the administration of the extreme unction. After which, the dying woman wishes to be alone with her parents-in-law. She asks them to watch over her husband and children. By way of farewell, [archduke] Franz Karl makes the sign of the cross on her forehead, mouth and chest. Two days later, the poor young woman gave back her soul to God.

Bled, Jean-Paul (2018). Sophie de Habsbourg

ON THIS DAY, IN 1871, ARCHDUCHESS MARIA ANNUNZIATA OF AUSTRIA (NÉE PRINCESS OF BOURBON-TWO SICILIES) DIED. She was born in 1843 as the eldest daughter of King Ferdinando II of the Two Sicilies and his second wife Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria. After the deposition of the Neapolitan Bourbons in 1861, she went into exile with her whole family to Rome. A year later she married her second cousin Archduke Karl Ludwig, a younger brother of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria. They had four children, among them Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination would trigger World War I, and Archduke Otto, the father of Karl I, the last Emperor of Austria.

Annunziata had suffered from a lung illness her whole life, and after the birth of her last child in 1870 her health worsened, dying a year later aged only 28-years-old. She was buried at the Capuchin Crypt in Vienna, the traditional resting place of the Habsburgs.