A young man in a pink jacket and white shirt sits among flowers in a garden on the cover of Vogue Scandinavia.

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Prince Nikolai of Denmark on the cover of the February–March issue of Vogue Scandinavia

Prince Nikolai of Denmark on the cover of the February–March issue of Vogue Scandinavia. The issue is devoted to the experience of growing up in monarchical regions

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Queen Victoria dies at Osborne House in 1901 after a 63-year reign

SHE PASSED AWAY IN PEACE. On 22 January 1901, at the age of 81, Queen Victoria died. It happened at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. Until 2015, Victoria's 63-year reign was the longest in British history; now the record belongs to Elizabeth II, who this

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New York in 1879 😍😍😍

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Prince Andrew of Greece after his exile and his son Philip's attitude towards him

Fathers come in all sorts. One of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark's relatives described him as a "deeply unhappy man". Andreas parted from his wife soon after his expulsion from Greece and spent the rest of his life with his mistress in Monte Carlo, where

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Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Queen Victoria's great-granddaughter Alice of Battenberg, and their youngest child Philip in 1925

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This is how the solemn requiem for King Louis XVI is held in the churches of France

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Execution of Louis XVI by guillotine on 21 January 1793 and the question of his guilt

On 21 January 1793 the 38-year-old citizen Louis Capet, formerly known as King Louis XVI, was executed by guillotine. To the very end he insisted on his innocence. Yet by almost any reasonable standard he was, in all likelihood, guilty of treason after all, though he did not

Detail of a painting showing the torso of a nude man and white drapery, with the face only partly visible.

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Orestes in Bouguereau's painting, cropped to exclude the Furies pursuing him

I rather wanted to rescue Orestes, pursued by the Furies, from his importunate company. Really, without these charming ladies Bouguereau's painting is far better

A young model in a long pink quilted coat, dark sweater and wide black trousers walks along a white runway. White blocks topped with green balls stand around.

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Model in a long pink padded coat on a runway in a white hall

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Prince Nikolai of Denmark takes part in the Rains show at Paris Fashion Week

Prince Nikolai of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, 22, grandson of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and son of Prince Joachim and Alexandra, at Paris Fashion Week. This season Prince Nikolai took part in the show of the unisex Fall/Winter 2022-2023 collection by Rains, the conceptual neo-Scandinavian outerwear

A painting in an arched niche on a grey wall: a man in red robes and a laurel wreath holds an open book. The label reads Agnolo Bronzino, Allegorical Portrait of Dante.

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Agnolo Bronzino's Allegorical Portrait of Dante on display in a museum

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An allegorical portrait of Dante, painted in 1532‒1533 by the Medici court artist Agnolo Bronzino, will be on show in Moscow at the Voznesensky Centre until 20 February, in an exhibition curated by the Pushkin Museum's chief research fellow Victoria Marko

An allegorical portrait of Dante, painted in 1532‒1533 by the Medici court artist Agnolo Bronzino, will be on show in Moscow at the Voznesensky Centre until 20 February, in an exhibition curated by the Pushkin Museum's chief research fellow Victoria Markova. The painting, which was considered lost

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