Princess Palace

To be a princess--spoiled and adored! Few real princesses have enjoyed such a life. The real princesses have been lost in our love of fairytales. Princess Palace explores their lives and loves, adventures and tragedies. Let’s celebrate and commiserate with these most (un?)fortunate of women.

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20 April 2026

100 Posts for Queen Elizabeth's Centenary

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In celebration of the Centenary of Queen Elizabeth II's birth on April 21, 2026, here are 100 posts from my blog and others about Britai...
09 March 2026

The Angel of Prussia

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By Johann Friedrich August Tischbein via Wikimedia Commons There he was. The "Monster". The man who had bedeviled her country. The...
06 March 2026

Provocative Portraits

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 As it turns out, 19th Century men also liked sexy portraits of their wives.  Thankfully, renowned royal portraitist Franz Xaver Winterhalte...
02 March 2026

A Princess Who Made Her Own Choices

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via Wikimedia Commons The violet-eyed Princess could not take her eyes off of the handsome young Grand Duke with the piercing light blue eye...
14 February 2026

A Powerful Young Woman Who Never Wore a Crown

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Ingeborg's seal via Wikimedia Commons Scandinavia was a fairly brutal place in the Middle Ages. The daughter of King Håkan V of Norway ...
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Cheryl has a wide range of interests from science to history to the arts, but her overriding preoccupation is with royalty. She has been studying the history of royal Europe since 1981. She frequently lectures on royal topics, seeking always to convey history as vibrant and meaningful. As she says, "These people's lives were not boring when they were living them!"
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