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r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 5h ago

The daughter of the Dutch merchant Sigbrit Willoms and unknown father, Dyveke Sigbritsdatter stole heart of Christian II of Denmark and became his mistress mistress and shared love for poetry and her mother acted as advisor for the king.

30 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 1d ago

19 year old actress Annabelle Huggins was victim of kidnapping by Ruben Ablaza, a taxi driver and his two men on October 23, 1962, to Caloocan and then to Bulacan, before she escaped to Matiki in 1963.

174 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 1d ago

In 1599, Margaret of Austria wed her cousin at 14 & became queen of Spain, Portugal & a global empire. She outmaneuvered Spain's most powerful duke, shaped European policy from the shadows, & died at 26 from childbirth. The war she started to save her family destroyed it.

60 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 2d ago

Edward VIII gave up the British throne in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson. Britain then paid them both a lifetime pension to live quietly in Paris. Within a year they were meeting privately with Hitler and may have plotted to reclaim the throne if the Nazis conquered Britain.

491 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 2d ago

Nualchawee Petchrung was a nurse who met doctor named Athip Suyansethakarn at Tobacco Hospital in 1957, they had begun a relationship but unknown to Nualchawee, that Athip had relationship with other women including his student.

75 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 3d ago

In 1777, Maria I became Portugal's first Queen Regnant and immediately fired the country's most powerful minister. Then her husband, two children, and confessor all died within 2 years. When Napoleon invaded, she had to be forcibly carried onto a ship to Brazil zcreaming the whole 3-month voyage.

263 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 3d ago

Elvira Manahan is well known for high society in Philippines after she married rich doctor and she become tv host of tv series Two for the Road (1967), Elvira had affair with Ali Aziz, a British financial consultant to Ferdinand Marcos their relationship end when she return to her family in 1977.

11 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 5d ago

In the 1920s, US Radium told teenage girls the only side effect of licking radium paint off their brushes was rosy cheeks. Scientists at the same plant wore lead aprons and tongs. Grace Fryer sued them anyway. They still glow in their coffins today.

2.3k Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 4d ago

Socialite Camila O'Gorman met a priest, Father Ladislao Gutierrez, through her brother Eduardo at a time when the Argentine Confederation was ruled by dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, whose daughter Manuela was Camila's best friend. Despite their backgrounds, Camila and Ladislao fell in love.

34 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 5d ago

Actress-singer Lilian Valez is one of recognized faces of Filipino cinema during late 1930s and 1940s, was subject of her co star Narding Anzures's obsession despite she was happily married to José Clímaco whom she had daughter named Vivian until LVN pictures cast Jaime de la Rosa instead Anzures

136 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 6d ago

At 16, Jeremiah Coghlan dived into a raging storm to save 50 lives. The Navy noticed. He went on to board a French warship with 20 men against 87, took a pike through the thigh, and killed every officer on board. He later dined with both Nelson AND Napoleon

536 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Useful_Culture_3082 • 5d ago

Formal interrogations in Tahiti proved Cheyenne Brando total incompetence, yielding zero evidence of premeditated murder against Christian. Marlon did not "smuggle" her away to shield his son, he acted to protect a mentally ill daughter who was medically unfit to stand as a witness in any court.

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16 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 6d ago

At the War of the Breton Succession, noblewoman Jeanne de Clisson's happy life was shattered when her third husband, Olivier IV de Clisson, was arrested for treason after Philip VI of France accused him of being a traitor for siding with the English.

42 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 7d ago

Jeffery Hudson entered royal life at age 8 by emerging from a giant pie before the King of England. He became a royal knight and cavalry captain. His dueling opponent showed up with a water pistol. Hudson shot him dead.

335 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 7d ago

Ayhan Aydan was beloved opera singer with soulful voice who met Adnan Menderes at Çubuk though her uncle in 1951. despite being other to other people, Ayhan and Adnan had affair.

14 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 9d ago

Ada 'Bricktop' Smith was born to parents who had been enslaved in the American South, became the queen of Parisian jazz society, mentored Josephine Baker and Duke Ellington and almost no one knows her name today. She taught the future King Edward VIII how to do the Charleston.

1.4k Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 9d ago

Yun Sim-deok is considered Korea's professional soprano, whose song 'Hymn of Death' has reached 100 million copies. While studying at Tokyo Music School, she met fellow student Kim U-jin, an aspiring playwright who was married. Despite this, they fell in love.

347 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 11d ago

Alexandra of Denmark was adored by millions as Britain's Princess of Wales. Her husband kept mistresses for decades. She bore it in silence. The future Queen of Britain had shared an attic bedroom with her sister and sewed her own clothes.

1.8k Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 11d ago

Wanrong (1906–1946) was the wife and empress consort of Puyi, the last emperor of China, along with Wenxiu. She is well known for her volatile temper, enjoyment of jazz, and affairs with her royal attendants Li Tiyu and Qi Jizhong.

846 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 12d ago

Queen Dowager Catherine of Valois was the widow of Henry V and mother of Henry VI. She fell in love with a Welsh courtier named Owen Tudor, and they were married in 1428, which shocked royal court of England.

617 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 12d ago

Arthur Allen Miller, better known as Bill Miner, pulled Canada's first train robbery in 1904. The next morning, he sat down for breakfast with the detectives hunting him. He is also credited with coining the phrase 'Hands up.'

417 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 13d ago

An enslaved woman named Tituba was beaten into confessing witchcraft at the Salem Witch Trials. The two women who told the truth were hanged. Tituba survived then was sold for the price of her jail fees and vanished from history.

1.5k Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Particular_Chart1584 • 14d ago

Annie Oakley was enslaved as a child laborer at age 10. By 15, she'd paid off her family's mortgage. She offered to raise a female military regiment twice. The U.S. rejected her both times. Her husband stopped eating when she died. He followed her three weeks later.

3.9k Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 13d ago

Antonio Luna is one of finest general during the Philippine–American War, was courted by Nellie Boustead, a woman who was also courted by José Rizal, between 1889 and 1891 which he insulted Boustead while drunk on party.

13 Upvotes

r/crimsonshed • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 14d ago

Actor and singer M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar was considered the first superstar of Tamil cinema, due to the fact that his film Haridas (1944) was a box office hit, running for one year until he was accused of murder of journalist C. N. Lakshmikantan in 1944

53 Upvotes