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Mary of Modena and the Warming Pan Prince
She had buried child after child. When one finally lived, they said he had been smuggled into her bed in a warming pan.
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Cymburgis of Masovia and the Habsburg Jaw
For three hundred years, Habsburg royals were painted with the same unmistakable jaw. Legend blames one woman for it. Her own statue doesn't have it.
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Marie Mancini and Louis XIV: "You Are the King and You Weep"
He was the most powerful king in Europe. He wept at the carriage door while she climbed in. You are the king, she said, and you weep. He dried his eyes and married someone else. She spent the next fifty years making sure the record was accurate.
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Catherine of Braganza and the Marriage Treaty of 23 June 1661
She arrived in England to find her husband's mistress waiting to be installed in her bedchamber. She would bring Bombay and Tangier and two million Portuguese crowns as her dowry. The treaty that decided her life was signed in London on the twenty-third of June 1661. She was in Lisbon at the time. Nobody had asked her.
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Queen Anne: Seventeen Pregnancies and the End of the Stuarts
She was pregnant seventeen times. She buried every child. History calls her the last Stuart queen, the first Queen of Great Britain, the monarch who presided over the birth of a nation. She was also a woman who ran out of children before she ran out of grief, and the nation she built died with her, and by the end she had lost almost everything a person can lose and was still required to be a queen.
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Maria Antonia of Austria: The Habsburgs Married Themselves
Every dynasty in Europe practised strategic marriage. The Habsburgs practised it on themselves. Maria Antonia of Austria was the result.