Showing posts with label Sylvia Barbara Soberton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sylvia Barbara Soberton. Show all posts

Monday, 17 February 2025

Dressing Queen Victoria 2 (Pages 44 - 169)


 Victoria suffered from typhoid and why she was very sick, her mother and Sir John Conroy tried to make her sign a document making him secretary and her mother regent even after she is eighteen. Victoria refused. 

Sunday, 16 February 2025

Tuesday, 16 April 2024

Ladies-in-Waiting: Women Who Served Anne Boleyn 2 (Pages 37 - 130)


 As Anne gained importance, Katharine lost privileges. Anne dismissed the Queen's most trusted ladies. One of these ladies was Gertrude Courtenay. Gertrude Courtenay, Marchioness of Exeter, (née Blount; c.1499/1502 – 25 September 1558) was an English Marchioness, married to Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter and a member of the court of Henry VIII of England. She was a godmother to the future Elizabeth I.