La Bella Rosina: The Commoner Who (Almost) Became Queen Of Italy
ittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Ranieri Eugenio Ferdinando Tomaso of Savoy, the first king of a united Italy, was born in 1820 in Turin. From day one, the child proved to be so fundamentally different from his royal father, King Carlo Alberto, that the rumor he was...
The Emperor Who Gave Up His Crown Twice
ar within his family, a push for independence, the end of slavery, and some weird incest. Such was the life of Pedro I, also known as “the Liberator”, or “the Soldier King”. A member of the House of Braganza (Portuguese: Bragança), young Pedro was born at the turn of...
The Ten Lives Of Tenby’s St Catherine’s Island
stands on guard, protecting Tenby’s Castle beach from . . . well, these days, not much more than easterly winds attacking the Pembrokeshire coastline. But in the past, this small outcrop of limestone, a mere 200 meters long, by 60 metres wide, and 25 metres high, has...
