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Isabella of Naples, "Unique in Misfortune"
She was not yet two years old when they promised her to her three-year-old cousin. The pope gave his blessing.
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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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Isabella of Austria: Three Northern Crowns and an Exile with Christian II
The bells rang across Brussels on 18 July 1501 for a girl who would wear three northern crowns before she turned twenty-five, and lose every one of them long before she died.
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Perkin Warbeck at Deal, 3 July 1495: The Pretender Who Never Landed
He had convinced the Holy Roman Emperor that he was the rightful King of England. He watched from his ship as the men of Kent lured his soldiers ashore with friendly words and killed them on the beach. He never set foot on English soil.
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Mary Tudor: The Promise She Extracted from Henry VIII
Henry VIII's favourite sister made him a promise before she agreed to anything. He kept it. She collected on it the moment the old king of France was cold. Mary Tudor was born on 18 March 1496 at Sheen Palace, the fifth child of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, the youngest of their children to survive infancy, and by the time she was a teenager the Venetian ambassador had described her as a paradise.