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This is the story of Betsy Patterson Bonaparte, the American who married Napoleon's youngest brother, Jerome. If you're thinking, "How come I've never heard of her?", it's because Napoleon didn't want you to. He had plans for his little brother that didn't include an American.
Betsy's story will feel familiar to anyone who's gone through a painful break-up...or a protracted legal battle.
As much of a downer as that sounds, Betsy herself is an inspiration. In a time when women were supposed to settle down and obey their husbands and fathers, Betsy did neither. She absolutely refused to do what anyone else wanted her to. For this, she's a woman after my own heart.
I hope you enjoy meeting Betsy!
History is so awesome.
#history #womeninhistory #royalty
Sources:
Berkin, Carol. Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014.
Boyer Lewis, Charlene M. “Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: ‘Ill-Suitted for the Life of a Colombians Modest Wife.” Journal of Women’s History 18, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 33-62. Project MUSE.
Burn, Helen Jean. Betsy Bonaparte. Baltimore: The Maryland Historical Society, 2010.
ABOUT THE GIRL IN THE TIARA
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I tell stories about tiaras and the fascinating royal women who wore them. Join me as I follow these tiaras across generations and countries, through wars and revolutions and - sometimes - into darkness and disappearance and destruction.
This isn't the kind of history your professor lectured about. Instead, think of this as conversational history, like a mash-up of Drunk History and The Crown. Yes, there's a little swearing. There's also humor and heart and a boatload of compassion for these amazing royal women.
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I never intended to start a channel or a website about tiaras and royal history. But a midlife crisis forced me to re-examine my life. I gave up fiction writing after self-publishing 9 of the 10 books I'd written and earning next to nothing.
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