Amberpod's Atlas of Curiosity

Wedding painting of Mary and William  The best resource was a book by Agnes Strickland written in 1872: Lives of the Last Four Princesses of the Royal House of Stuart. You can read it for free here You can find scanned copies of her letters here

  In my podcasting journey, I will try a something new, a podcast on the history of royal women. In the future, I would like to do a YouTube channel and travel to some of the historical sites and palaces of some of these royals.  This is my plan: Princess Royals of England Mary Stuart, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (English Civil War, 1st Stadtholderless Era) Anne of Hanover, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (Smallpox, 2nd Stadtholderless Era) Charlotte of Hanover, Princess Royal, Queen of Wurttemberg (Napoleon) Victoria, Princess Royal, Empress of Germany, Queen of Prussia  20th Century Princess Royals Bad Queens of the Bible Queen Jezebel Queen Athaliah and Queen Maacah Herodias European Jezebels Did They Deserve the Comparison? Brunhilda, Queen of Austrasia Aelia Eudoxia, Empress of Rome Isabella of Angouleme, Queen of England Joanne of Navarre, Queen of England Catharine de' Medici, Queen of France Henrietta Maria, Queen of England Lucrezia Borgia

1652 Portrait by Bartholomeus van der Heist      I will be starting a podcast on history and specifically on the history on Royal Women, but I am open to other topics. I decided to start with something simple and wanted to start with the Princess Royals of England. The project ended up being far more complicated and interesting than I originally thought. The first Princess Royal of England was Mary Princess Royal of England and Princess of Orange, daughter of King Charles I of England, wife of Prince William II of Orange, and mother of King William III of England and Prince of Orange.       She was born on  4 November 1631 in St. James Palace, London, England, the oldest daughter of Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France. The Stuarts were descendants of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was Catholic but her son was raised Protestant. The Bourbons came from Henry IV who was a Protestant who converted to Catholicism to be a king. At age 9, she married William, the son of the Prince o