Herstory Revisited

LOCAL HISTORY TIME (kinda) Elizabeth Stuart  (1596 –1662) was  Electress of the Palatinate  and briefly  Queen of Bohemia  as the wife of  Frederick V of the Palatinate . Because her husband's reign in Bohemia and Palatinate lasted for just one winter, Elizabeth is often referred to as the "Winter Queen". Elizabeth also provided the link between the Stuart and Hanoverian royal families of Britian: her father was  James VI and I ,  King of Scotland ,  England , and  Ireland . With the fall of the last  Stuart monarch  in 1714, Elizabeth's grandson succeeded to the  British throne  as  George I , initiating the  Hanoverian dynasty . Elizabeth was born at  Dunfermline Palace   in the early hours of 19 August 1596. King James VI rode to the bedside from  Callendar , where he was attending a wedding. Then, her father was  King of Scots  only and his wife Anne, The Queen of ...

“Courage and grace are a formidable mixture.” Marie Magdalene  "Marlene" Dietrich   (1901– 1992) was a German-born American actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s. Dietrich was born on 27 December 1901 in  Schöneberg , now a district of Berlin. Her mother, Wilhelmina, was from a wealthy Berlin family who owned a jewellery and clock-making company. Her father, Louis Dietrich, was a police lieutenant. Marie had one sibling, Elisabeth, who was one year older. Dietrich's father died in 1907. His best friend, Eduard von Losch, an  aristocratic  soldier married Wilhelmina in 1914, but he died in July 1916 from injuries sustained during the First World War. Dietrich's family nicknamed her "Lena", "Lene", or "Leni". Around the age of 11, se combined her first two names to form the name "Marlene". In her teens, she studied the  violin and became interested in theater and poetry. A wrist injury curtail...