Snow White was based on Margarete Von Waldeck, a 16th century Bavarian woman. 16 year old Margarete moved to Brussels in 1549. She caught the eye of Prince Philip II & became his lover. The thought of her being a princess was unbearable to her meddling stepmother, as well as his father, the king of Spain. Agents cooked up a plot to end the affair by poisoning the young beauty. Her will written just before her death at 21 shows evidence of the tremors brought on by advanced stages of poisoning.

Snow White was based on Margarete Von Waldeck, a 16th century Bavarian woman. 16 year old Margarete moved to Brussels in 1549. She caught the eye of Prince Philip II & became his lover. The thought of her being a princess was unbearable to her meddling stepmother, as well as his father, the king of Spain. Agents cooked up a plot to end the affair by poisoning the young beauty. Her will written just before her death at 21 shows evidence of the tremors brought on by advanced stages of poisoning.