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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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Élisabeth d'Autriche: Queen of France for Four Years
She arrived in France at sixteen unable to speak French. Two years later she learned that the man she had married had ordered the massacre of thousands of his own subjects. She asked for her book of hours and prayed for him.
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Anna Pappenheimer: The Gravedigger's Daughter, Munich, 1600
She was the daughter of a gravedigger and she had married a man who cleaned latrines.