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Maria of Anjou (1290 – end of April 1346/January 1347) was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou who served as Queen of Majorca during her marriage to King Sancho of Majorca. She was the daughter of King Charles II of Naples and his wife, Mary of Hungary. [1]
- She Had An Incredibly Strange Childhood
- Her Mother Controlled Her in Disturbing Ways
- She Had A Creepy Prince Charming
- Her Suitor Pursued Her For All The Wrong Reasons
- She Had A “Shameful” Deficiency
- Her Family Forced Her Into Bizarre Medical Experiments
- Her Groom Skipped Her Wedding
- She Took Part in A Mortifying Wedding Ritual
- Her Wedding Night Was A Disaster
- Her Husband Was Hiding An Embarrassing Deformity
Maria Sophie Amalie was born on October 4, 1841 to Duke Maximilian of Bavaria and Princess Ludovika. Though she was a Duchess, Maria Sophie had one wild childhood. Her father was a notorious eccentric who was obsessed with circus performers. He ran his family like an acrobat troupe, encouraging country horseback rides instead of books and study. Th...
Maria’s royal brood was loud, proud, and big; Maximilian and Ludovica and no fewer than 10 children together, though sadly only eight survived to adulthood. While Maximilian was busy playing circus performer, the whip-smart Ludovica had loftier plans, and aimed to marry their children off to the most eligible bachelors in Europe. That’s exactly wha...
In 1857, Maria was just 16 years old, which was apparently a ripe age for the picking by Bavarian standards. That year Francis II, the Crown Prince of Naples, started sniffing around Maria's skirts and testing the waters for a marriage proposal. Being courted by a royal prince should have been a fairy tale for the young girl, but in reality, nothin...
Maria was an astoundingly gorgeous girl—people called her “unusually beautiful”—but Francis wasn’t hanging around her garden gate for love. Maria’s older sister Elisabeth was married to the Emperor of Austria, so Francis knew the girl would be a politically advantageous wife. How…romantic. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the situation proceeded t...
Maria’s controlling mother jumped at Francis’ proposal to her teen daughter, but there was a huge problem.At the tender age of 16, Maria hadn’t even had her first period yet, which was a big no-no for the era. After all, what good are women if they can’t pop out royal heirs, am I right? In order to speed up the nuptials, Maria’s family pushed her i...
Maria had to submit to a series of medical experiments to jumpstart her period. With “Operation Royal Teen Pregnancy” creepily underway, doctors prescribed scalding hot baths to the girl, and that was on a good day. If it was Maria’sunluckyday, the physicians would cover the poor girl's body in leeches. But Maria’s nightmare was just beginning. Shu...
On January 8, 1859, Maria finally married her prince…sort of. Maria looked resplendent in a brocade dress and velvet train—but her groom was nowhere to be seen. That’s because Maria was “married by proxy,” a custom of the time that bizarrely let someone else stand in for the bride or groom. In this case, the honor of being Maria's stand-in husband ...
Less than a month later, Maria did it all over again, this time marrying Francis in person at the royal palace in Naples. Somehow, this was even worse than her nightmarish first wedding.Following the customs of the time, the wedding guests locked Maria and Francis into their bedchamber right after the ceremony. This is awkward enough for two near s...
As it turned out, Maria and Francis were fundamentally mismatched. He was devout and serious; she was playful, strong-headed, and unused to the formalities of a royal court. It’s no surprise, then, that their wedding night was nota party I’d want to be invited to. Apparently, Francis spent the whole night praying and Maria spent the whole night cry...
When the young, naïve Maria married Francis, she thought she knew what she was getting into—but she didn’t know his darkest secret. Francis suffered from a very personal and embarrassing affliction called phimosis. Men with this syndrome can’t pull back their skin “down there.” Although it’s usually harmless, it becomes brutally painful during bedr...
Maria Carolina of Austria (Maria Carolina Louise Josepha Johanna Antonia; 13 August 1752 – 8 September 1814) was Queen of Naples and Sicily as the wife of King Ferdinand IV and III, who later became King of the Two Sicilies.
Nov 5, 2021 · Well, Maria Carolina of Austria certainly didn’t stand behind anyone—let alone a man. When her halfwit husband the King of Naples didn’t seem up for the job, she rose to the occasion. Her aggressiveness and cunning caused her greatest enemy, Napoleon himself, to call her “the only man in Naples.”
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily (6 June 1772 – 13 April 1807) was the first Empress of Austria and last Holy Roman Empress as the spouse of Francis II. She was born a Princess of Naples as the eldest daughter of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Queen Maria Carolina.
Aug 30, 2023 · Mary of Hungary (c. 1257 – 25 March 1323) of the Árpád dynasty was Queen consort of Kingdom of Naples. She was (possibly the eldest) daughter of Stephen V of Hungary (d. 1272) and his wife, Elizabeth the Cuman, who was daughter of Zayhan of Kuni, a chief of the Cuman tribe and had been a pagan before her marriage.
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Maria Carolina was the queen of Naples and wife of King Ferdinand IV of Naples. She held the real power in Naples, and, under the influence of her favourite, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet, who was reputed to be her lover, she adopted a pro-British, anti-French policy.
