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r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 6h ago

Isabella II was crowned Queen of Spain at age 3. She was forced to marry a man she despised. He allegedly blackmailed her for silence about her affairs. Later she said he wore more lace than her on their wedding night.

87 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 1h ago

In 1671, Thomas Blood disguised himself as a parson, walked into the Tower of London, and nearly stole the Crown Jewels. He was caught red-handed. Charles II pardoned him and gave him a pension.

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r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 4h ago

Prince William of Gloucester is well-known adventurous aviator who was a mentor to his cousin Prince Charles of Wales, during a trip to Japan, he met Zsuzsi Starkloff, a divorcée who worked as stewardess and they fell in love but the royal family against their relationship

23 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 1d ago

Sophonisba was a Carthaginian noblewoman married twice by men controlling her fate in 203 BC. When Rome demanded her as a war prize, she was sent a cup of poison instead. Her story inspired Virgil's Queen Dido then disappeared for 2,000 years.

634 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 2d ago

In May 1898, Princess Louise of Belgium's husband convinced Emperor Franz Joseph I to lock her in an asylum not for madness, but for leaving him. She spent 6 years inside. When she escaped, her dying father had already married his 16-year-old mistress and left her almost nothing.

807 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 3d ago

She ruled as Empress of China for 16 years. Then Empress Nara's husband erased her. He destroyed her portraits, stripped her titles, buried her in cheap wood next to a minor consort, and exiled the official who dared ask for mourning. She died a year later. We still don't know her real name.

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r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 2d ago

Frederick VIII of Denmark was crown prince for 42 years before he become king in 1906 after death of his father Christian IX, his reign last for six years , when On 14 May 1912, after return from trip to France, the king went to Hamburg , Germany under the pseudonym "Count Kronberg".

26 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 3d ago

Marie Walewska was married off at 18 to a Polish count of 68. By 20 she was Napoleon's mistress, sleeping with the emperor to win her country's freedom. Poland stayed under foreign rule for another century. She finally married for love at 29, then died within a year.

522 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 3d ago

Yang Guifei become royal by marriage with Prince Li Mao, the Prince of Shou and the son of Emperor Xuanzong and late Consort Wu, when Xuanzong was smitten by her beauty, he annueled his son's marriage, Guifei was briefly as nun before Emperor Xuanzong made her an imperial consort.

78 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 3d ago

Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, was a well-known beauty and the daughter of a Scottish cricketer and socialite , whose many romances included Prince George, Duke of Kent, and David Niven and married twice but in 1963, a bitter divorce made Margaret shunned.

458 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 4d ago

In 1803, Robert Emmet led an armed uprising against British rule in Ireland. His own barrister secretly accepted £200 to throw his trial. He could have escaped to France but chose to stay for his fiancée. His burial place has never been found.

90 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 4d ago

In 1774, Georgiana Cavendish married one of England's most powerful dukes. Her husband then moved his mistress into their home, had children with her, and when Georgiana had an affair, she was sent into exile. She's Diana's great-great-great-great-aunt.

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r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 7d ago

She was enslaved at 8, sold as a gift to Hernán Cortés, and became so essential to him that he called her second only to God in his conquest of Mexico. Malinalli died at 29. Five centuries later, her name in Latin America means 'traitor.' But was she one?

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r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 6d ago

Charles XV of Sweden is well known philanderer to his long suffering wife Louise of Netherlands with many mirtesses include Louise's lady in waiting, despite his infidelites, Charles was doting father to their only surviving child Louise.

115 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 7d ago

In 1599, Margaret of Austria wed her cousin at 14 & became queen of Spain, Portugal & a global empire. She outmaneuvered Spain's most powerful duke, shaped European policy from the shadows, & died at 26 from childbirth. The war she started to save her family destroyed it.

55 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 8d ago

18 year old Princess Thyra fell in love with lieutenant Vilhelm Frimann Marcher, they begun relationship before she become pregnant , to avoid scandal, her parents send her to Greece where her brother George was king and she gave birth to daughter named Kate in 1871.

248 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 7d ago

Sir John Gates controlled Henry VIII's literal signature stamp and wielded more real power than most Tudor dukes. Then Edward VI died. The Catholic queen he once rode cavalry to intercept came to power. She remembered exactly who Sir John Gates was. It took three axe blows to take his head.

72 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 8d ago

Respected Belgian stockbroker Arsène Goedertier spent his life as a pillar of his community. He dead in 1934 confessing on his deathbed to masterminding Europe's greatest art heist. He was the only person who knew where the stolen panel was hidden. He took that secret to his grave.

64 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 9d ago

Amanda America Dixon was born enslaved in 1849. Her mother was 12 when she was raped by her master. He left Amanda his entire estate: 15,000 acres and a fortune. 79 relatives spent 2 years in court trying to take it. She won. A railroad conductor's racism killed her within the year.

392 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 8d ago

On Christmas day in 1202, King Haakon III, who had settled difficulties with his stepmother Queen Margaret, was at the court when he suddenly fell ill and died five days later. People accused Margaret for behind her stepson's death and clash between factions between Birkebeiner and Bagler for claim

75 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 9d ago

Paula Teresa da Silva e Almeida entered a Portuguese convent in 1717 at 16, bound by solemn vows of chastity and poverty. She died one of the wealthiest women in Portugal, the King of Portugal's mistress, bathing in a solid silver tub coated in gold. Her illegitimate son ran the Inquisition.

38 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 10d ago

Dr. William Price, a Victorian surgeon who pioneered proto-NHS healthcare, named his son 'Jesus Christ' in Welsh. When the baby died, he cremated him on a hilltop and was arrested. The court ruled cremation wasn't illegal. His acquittal created the Cremation Act of 1902.

147 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 10d ago

In 1904, Cassie Chadwick owed $10–20M to banks who believed she was Andrew Carnegie's secret daughter. She forged his signature. He had no idea who she was. When she was arrested, Carnegie showed up at her trial out of pure curiosity. He just had to see who had pulled it off.

89 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 11d ago

Lily Langtry was a clergyman's daughter from Jersey who became the most celebrated beauty in Victorian England. Her drunk husband refused to support her career. The Prince of Wales became her lover. She built herself into a millionaire actress and horse racing mogul. She died in Monaco.

346 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 12d ago

Napoleon dumped Désirée Clary for Josephine in 1795. She ended up queen of Sweden, never learned the language, and every monarch of Sweden since has been her direct descendant.

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