Four times minor diplomatic spats had a major geopolitical impact
The fact that a routine diplomatic meeting unraveled into an event that reshaped the global order shocked many but has historical precedent. In numerous past incidents, what began as a trivial ...
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Four times minor diplomatic spats had a major geopolitical impact
In July 1870, the German Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was offered the Spanish throne. While Bismarck supported the expansion of Prussian influence, French pressure forced him to ...
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Who was Empress Maria Theresa of the Holy Roman Empire, the matriarch who was a mother to sixteen children and who ruled for 40 years?
Of her royal siblings, Leopold’s character, Maria Carolina’s politics ... actress and model who married a Spanish-German prince and was later romantically linked to Prince Rainier of Monaco Princess ...
Revealed: The VERY romantic ways the Royals have proposed - from Prince William getting down on one knee in Kenya to Mike Tindall proposing in front of the TV... and a Queen ...
Today is National Proposal Day - and if you are struggling for ideas on how to make the moment romantic, perhaps you should take a leaf out of the royal book on love.
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‘No one talks about this’: Remembering Germany’s role in colonising Africa
and Belgium’s King Leopold’s claim on the area that would later be called the Congo Free State was recognised. Germany claimed four major areas: German East Africa, Kamerun, Togoland ...
This week in history: March 17-23
Uganda cult massacre; trial of Baader-Meinhof group; Belgium government collapses; British fascists seize Communist Party ...