Sentences with 'princess'
Example sentences and phrases with the word princess and other words derived from it.
• « In 1810, Napoleon divorced his wife Josephine (who had not produced a male heir) and married the Habsburg princess, Marie Louise. This provoked suspicion, silent protests and military desertion, as it appeared to be an open betrayal of revolutionary anti-monarchist principles: instead of defying the kings of Europe, he tried to create his own royal line by marrying into one! »
• « The chronicle of Charles II begins with his father, Charles I. Charles I ascended the English throne in 1625 and soon married a French Catholic princess, Henrietta Maria, who was disliked by English Protestants because she openly practised Catholicism during her husband's reign. »