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American Women Near to Royal Thrones in the Public Ledger
A Philadelphia Public Ledger piece surveys American-born women who married royals or shared thrones. It chronicles figures like Miss Heine and Madame Musard, outlining marriages to Monaco's Prince Albert, Trinidad’s King James I, and other European nobles, plus the social rise and falls of American women linked to monarchies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riting
Philadelphia Public Ledger
China
Europe
Michael
Russia
Boston
Leopold of
Lippe-Biesterfeld
Lippe- Detmold
United States
Holland
Bonaparte
John H. Flagler
New York
King
Trinidad
James I
Island
Louisiana
Misa
Marguerite Alice Heine
Prince Albert of
Monaco
Heinrich Heine
Napoleon Jr
Heine
New Orleans
Paris
Armande Duc de Richelieu
Mary Hamilton
Duchess de Richelieu
Grimaldi
Monte Carlo
Principality
Prince Albert
Count Tasallo Festetice
Hungary
Ohio
Mme. Musard
New World
Mario Musard
Belgium
Eliza Parker
Baden-Baden
Francis Ferdinand
Austria
Princess Hohenberg
The
Republic
James Harden-Hickey
Henry M. Plagler
Standard Oil Company
Germany
Chaplin
Blanche
Musard
Ghost
Guizot
France
James
Queen Anna
Columbus
England
John Hull
Harden Hickey Neally
Connecticut
Gaylum
Albert von Waldersee
Marwhal
Jen
Prince Zu Noer