For centuries, Europe placed supreme importance and confidence in its royal families. Take a look at European royalty in these articles.
Her subjects called her Madame Déficit, and they snickered at the dismal state of affairs in her royal bedroom. Marie Antoinette's death may very well be the most well-known scandal of her life, but what are the other juicy details? See more »
Maintenon, Françoise d' Aubigné, Marquise de (1635-1719), the second wife of King Louis XIV of France.
See more »Pompadour, Marquise de (1721–1764), a politically influential mistress of King Louis XV of France.
See more »Mary, the name of two English queens who were reigning monarchs. Mary I was a Tudor and Mary II was a Stuart.
See more »Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), also known as Mary Stuart, a queen of Scotland and of France.
See more »Maximilian I (1459–1519), German king, 1486–1519, and Holy Roman emperor, 1493–1519.
See more »Napoleon I, (1769–1821), first emperor of the French, 1804–14. His full name was Napoléon Bonaparte, the French rendering of his original name, Napolione Buonaparte, which was Italian.
See more »Napoleon III (1808–1873), second emperor of the French, 1852–70. His full name was Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte.
See more »Orléans, the name of the cadet (younger) branch of the Valois and Bourbon royal families of France.
See more »Paul (1901–1964), king of Greece. He became king in 1947, succeeding his brother, George II.
See more »Pepin the Short, or Pepin III (714?–768), king of the Franks, 751–68. Pepin and his brother Carloman became the most powerful lords of the Frankish kingdom after the death of their father, Charles Martel, in 741.
See more »Percy, the name of a noble family of northern England. Heads of the house of Percy have been earls and dukes of Northumberland.
See more »Warbeck, Perkin (1474–1499), a pretender to the English crown in the reign of Henry VII.
See more »Plantagenet, the name of the royal house of England from 1154 to 1485. The Plantagenet kings were also called Angevins because they belonged to the House of Anjou.
See more »Albert, Prince (1819-1861), consort of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. Throughout his marriage to Victoria, Albert was her devoted companion and constant adviser on foreign and domestic policy.
See more »Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall (1948-), the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and heir apparent to the British throne.
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