All About Royal Families

Dirk Bouts, portrait in Town Hall in Louvain, Belgium Dirk Bouts, also written as Dieric Bouts was born around 1410 in, probably, Haarlem. Nowadays Haarlem is located in The Netherlands. He moved to Leuven (Louvain) and married there in 1448. Leuven is a city located in the province Flemish Brabant in Belgium. Dirk Bouts married twice and had 4 children, 2 daughters and 2 sons. His 2 daughters went to convents and his 2 sons became painters who brought Bouts workshop into the mid-16th. century. Royal Art Dirk Bouts attained the rank of city painter in Leuven in 1468. That was during the reign of Charles The Bold, Duke of Burgundy. Amazing works The first documented works from Bouts dated from 1457. Last Supper The Last Supper - located in St. Peter's Church Louvain, Belgium   One of his famous paintings is the Last Supper, a central panel of the Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament, commissioned by the Leuven Confraternity of the Holy Sacrament in 1

On 23 June 1903, King Tribhuwan, also written Tribhuvan, was born in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal. Source picture: Wikipedia Family Tribhuvan was the son of Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah and Queen Divyeshwari Laxmi Devi Shah. Reign After the death of his father, Tribhuvan ascended the throne on 11 December 1911 at the age of 8. His mother was appointed as regent until King Tribhuvan would come to his age. Tribhuvan and his sons - Source picture: Wikipedia Love and marriage In March 1919, King Tribhuvan married Queen Kanti of Nepal as his first wife. In a double ceremony he took Queen Kanti's sister, Queen Ishwari as his second wife. He also had junior wives. King Tribhuvan had 3 sons and 13 daughters. Source picture: Wikipedia Duty In that time, the position of monarch was mainly titular. The real power in the country was executed by the conservative Rana family, which supplied the country with its hereditary Prime Minister. Du

On 18 June 1901 (O.S. June 5) a new Grand Duchess was born at the Peterhof Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. She received the name: Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.  Source picture: Wikipedia Family Her parents were Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.  Grand Duchess Anastasia was the sister of: Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana, Grand Duchess Maria and Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. The Tsar and his family - Taken at the exhibition in the Hermitage in Amsterdam in 2017 Early life When Anastasia was born, the Tsar and his family were disappointed that she wasn't a boy, who would be heir apparent to the throne.  At the Russian Royal Court, the Tsar's children were raised as simple as possible. They slept on hard beds, they took cold baths in the  morning and they were expected to tidy their rooms and to do  needlework (which was sold to charity events).  Anastasia g

The main residence of the Kings of Portugal in Lisbon for around 250 years was the Ribeira Palace. Source picture: Wikipedia Some history Before 1147 (The Siege of Lisbon), the Portuguese monarchs always had used the Castle of São Jorge as their residence in Lisbon. In 1225, Lisbon became Portugal's definitive capital. King Manuel I of Portugal set off on a building spree, renovating the Lisbon landscape and starting with the construction of a brand new Royal Palace. This new palace wasn't located on a high, easily protected fortress hill, it was built on the river shore of the Tagus river. That's why the new palace received the name: Ribeira Palace. A special Thank You for João Rita, who read one of my previous posts  about Portugal very well and who gave this explanation too.  Soon, Lisbon became one of the most important cities and ports in all Europe. The city had a lot of spice trade and from Lisbon many explorers left Europe for the wide w