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Veröffentlichung 31. 10. 2026
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Princess – Fifty Feisty Noblewomen is not a gallery of tiaras and fairytales. It is a book about power – and the price of wearing a crown. In fifty sharp, vividly researched portraits Dr Katharina Van Cauteren and Dr Leen Kelchtermans bring to life women who were far more than decorative consorts. Some ruled outright. Others governed through letters, lovers, wardrobes, or wombs. All of them manoeuvred within systems that were never designed for them – and bent those systems to their will. From Habsburg archduchesses to Bourbon rebels, from queens who carried empires in their dowries to widows who turned mourning into political theatre, these women lived where blood, faith and strategy collided. Their bodies were battlegrounds. Their marriages were treaties. Their jewels were propaganda. Yet within the strict choreography of court ritual, they found room for audacity, wit and sheer survival instinct. This is a book about dynasties, desire, and diplomacy – but also about loneliness, ambition, and resilience. It explores how a princess could be at once a pawn and a player, a mother and a monarch, an ornament and an architect of history. Written with scholarly precision and narrative flair, Princess dismantles the myth of passive royalty and replaces it with something far more compelling: women of flesh and blood, who refused to dissolve into courtly foam. Because a title was never just a title. It was a destiny.
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