Výjimečné české panovnice – Jarolímková Stanislava (2023)

This book by a popular author of history books for older children introduces Czech queens who were significantly different from the queens known from fairy tales. Although they mostly did not come to the Czech royal residence of their own accord, they became a support to their husbands in difficult times, used their family's connections for the benefit of their new homeland, and one even did not hesitate to mount a horse at the head of Czech soldiers. ***** You will learn, for example, not only when we had queens instead of princesses, why Czech kings married foreigners, and whether they all had to master Czech, but also how their coronations took place. You might be interested in the private lives of Czech queens, such as why John of Luxembourg eventually prevented Elizabeth of Přemysl from interfering in his rule, why Sophie of Bavaria became a prisoner of her brother-in-law Sigismund, and how the only ruling woman on the Czech throne, Maria Theresa, fared. You will likely be surprised by how the last Czech queen, Zita, coped with the loss of the crown after 1918.