London · Monarchies · Society

Elizabeth II declared at her Platinum Jubilee that Camilla will be Queen

I should like to clarify that Camilla, who became Queen Consort, will after the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II be styled Her Majesty The Queen. Evidently, the word "consort" is not to be pronounced; the status will be merely understood. Camilla's rank will be precisely that

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At the Gates of Buckingham Palace

Aristocracy · Monarchies · People

British aristocrat and former lady-in-waiting to the Queen, Lady Pamela Hicks, née Mountbatten, at 93 has become, following the death of Elizabeth II, the oldest living descendant of Queen Victoria in Great Britain

Lady Pam, as she is usually called in society, is a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, descending from her second daughter, Princess Alice of the United Kingdom. Lady Pamela Hicks is a first cousin of the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and was a bridesmaid at his wedding

NB! · Books · London · Monarchies

A Very Touching Recollection of a Meeting with the Queen, from the Book by the Surgeon David Nott

NB! · Archive · London · Monarchies

Three Queens of England: the not yet crowned Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon) and the Dowager Queen Mary of Teck at the funeral of George VI

Monarchies · Society

Doctors concerned for Elizabeth II's health as her family travel to Balmoral

Doctors are concerned about the condition of Queen Elizabeth II, 96, who is now at Balmoral Castle under medical supervision. Prince Charles, Prince William and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, have set off for Her Majesty's estate. The royal family's website appears to have crashed following the

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Stalin holding his daughter Svetlana

Faith · Art · Observations

Giotto's Fresco Christ among the Doctors, 1304-1306

The fresco's original title is Cristo tra i Dottori, which often misleads viewers: many, in error, take Dottori literally as physicians. One should not forget that the word doctor derives from the Latin docere, "to teach", and a doctor is accordingly a teacher. Jesus in this

Painting of an elderly bearded man in a green smock with a white collar, holding a palette and a long brush; a signature and the date 1915 are at the left edge.

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Ilya Repin, self-portrait with palette and brush, 1915

Art · Museums · People

Repin designed a hanging palette because of pain in his right hand

In the 1890s Repin began to suffer pains in his right hand: from constant painting, a gradual atrophy of the muscles between the thumb and forefinger was developing. The artist could no longer paint with his right hand, and the pain would not even let him hold a palette in

NB! · Art · New York · Humour

The Statue of Liberty's face be like

NB! · Archaeology · Moscow

White-stone cannonballs found by the Kosmodemyansky Tower of the Kitay-gorod Wall in 1958

White-stone cannonballs found by the Kosmodemyansky Tower of the Kitay-gorod Wall in 1958. Dated to the 16th and 17th centuries. Cannonballs of this kind were fired by the stone-throwing ordnance on the walls of Moscow during its defence.

Alexandr Radayev