L'Europeo Magazine № 96 | Mothers and Daughters | May 2025
L’Europeo No. 96: Mothers and Daughters
Psychologists have long insisted that no human bond exerts a deeper influence on the architecture of a life than that between a mother and a daughter. One may object: what of mothers and sons, fathers and sons, fathers and daughters? Such ties are no less profound, no less capable of tenderness or devastation. Yet few relationships shape character, desire, ambition, triumph, and failure with quite the same inexorable force.
Mothers and daughters are bound together by a destiny that feels almost primordial—older than memory, older perhaps than scripture itself. From this intricate and often turbulent attachment have emerged some of the most compelling stories ever told: stories of love and rivalry, sacrifice and rebellion, devotion and betrayal. Stories that reveal the paradox of womanhood—apparently fragile, yet endlessly resilient; vulnerable, yet ultimately unconquerable.
Among the features in this issue:
- Isabella of Castile and her daughter Juana—history remembers the latter by the telling epithet the Mad;
- The fateful and heartbreaking story of Anne Boleyn and her extraordinary daughter, Elizabeth I;
- Frau Himmler and the Nazi princess: the wife and daughter of Heinrich Himmler, one of the Third Reich's most reviled architects;
- Was Hollywood legend Joan Crawford truly the monster her daughter Christina portrayed in Mommie Dearest? Through Christina's eyes, there can be little doubt;
- A gentler tale this time: the enduring and deeply affectionate bond between two beloved stars of the screen, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher;
- Mia Farrow and her daughters—a family saga marked by brilliance, tragedy, and controversy;
- Not Without My Daughter: the extraordinary Iranian-American story of a mother who overturned her entire world in order to rescue both herself and her child from an unexpected domestic captivity;
- When nightmares become reality: Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard and her daughter Gypsy-Rose, in one of the most disturbing maternal stories of our time;
- Marianne Bachmeier, who took justice into her own hands after the murder of her daughter Anna;
- Maria, daughter of Mira Marković—the Serbian Lady Macbeth—and Slobodan Milošević, the butcher of the Balkans;
- And, inevitably, the Trump dynasty: in this context, the refrain "Ivana, Ivanka" becomes a story that reaches far beyond mere curiosity.
Also in this issue: a conversation with actresses Aneta Sotirova and Beloslava.
All this and much more in L’Europeo No. 96: MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS.
- • Language: Bulgarian
• Format: 22 x 26 cm
• Softcover






