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Elisabeth Stride – the Swedish victim of Jack the Ripper
When Elisabeth Gustavsdotter was born on November 27, 1843, in Torslanda, it is highly unlikely that anyone would have looked at the little child and thought that she would become a person whose fate would be debated over a hundred… Continue reading
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The Princess and the Queen
When the wedding negotiations began for Cecilia Vasa and her future husband in 1564, she expressed that she would rather forgo marriage and instead become a lady-in-waiting to a monarch whom she had the most profound admiration for: Elizabeth I… Continue reading
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