Cross of Laeken has an excellent post on HRH Princess Henriette of Belgium, Duchess of Vendome. She was the niece of HM King Leopold II of the Belgians, wife of Prince Emmanuel the Duc d'Vendome and someone who understood the importance of the divine connections between religion and monarchy. She was also quite the sportswoman who once went to the United States with her husband to hunt grizzly bears! Faithful, feminine and fearless -quite a combination.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Princess Henriette of Belgium
Cross of Laeken has an excellent post on HRH Princess Henriette of Belgium, Duchess of Vendome. She was the niece of HM King Leopold II of the Belgians, wife of Prince Emmanuel the Duc d'Vendome and someone who understood the importance of the divine connections between religion and monarchy. She was also quite the sportswoman who once went to the United States with her husband to hunt grizzly bears! Faithful, feminine and fearless -quite a combination.
Thanks for the link! I love the way you summed her up - faithful, feminine, fearless!
ReplyDeleteAll qualities I admire -especially these days when so many seem to think it is impossible to be all three. Had I known more about Princess Henriette a few years back she would have been included in a paper I wrote looking at such women throughout Christian history. Of course, whenever one does such a work as that you always think of more you should have included after the fact.
ReplyDeleteThe paper sounds interesting. Might you post some of your thoughts on the topic here?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I will cover some of the same individuals but I don't know how well the work as a whole could be posted. It's 17 pages long and very Church and religion specific so no doubt some of the choices would be a cause for controversy. Until I just looked I didn't even know if I still had it as since it was written I've gone through two PC's. It is a sort of look the role of women and the great things done or strived for by all sorts of ladies, though probably a majority of those I admire most are royal. I wrote it in the midst of a fury about the tired line of the Church being misogynistic and 'anti-woman'. This has always really infuriated me because, in my own reading of history, perhaps the eras I have been most interested in, there seem to be an inordinate number of women who are far more admirable than the men -though I don't put it quite that way as life shouldn't be seen as a competition between the two. Now that I've been reminded of it I may be able to look through it and see about converting it into some posts sometime.
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