Gossip claimed Alys to have even borne the late King's child. Richard's mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Dowager Queen of England selected Berengaria as a future wife for her son. A marriage with ...
But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them on fabricated ... Of her contemporary Queen Victoria, Cixi observed: "I don't think her life is half as interesting or eventful as ...