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The Austrian field marshal, diplomat and writer Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne, returning from a military campaign, asked his wife Françoise whether she had been faithful to him. "Often," replied his wife.
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It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.
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In April 1895 Oscar Wilde failed to win his case against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his close friend and lover Douglas. The Marquess demanded an end to the affair between Oscar Fingal and his son and accused the writer of sodomy, or, to be precise, sent a
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Princess Alexandra of Kent was the last member of the British royal family at whose birth a special official of the royal administration was present, to certify the fact of the birth of an infant of royal blood and to confirm the legitimacy of the descent of a person in
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England has mislaid its "Russian" princess, Alexandra of Kent. The 84-year-old Alexandra is the younger sister of the head of English Freemasonry, Edward, Duke of Kent, and the elder sister of the scandal-prone Michael of Kent; as the daughter of the fourth son of King
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A concise reply to those who mistakenly equate the rare with the valuable. A limited print run cannot be the root cause of collecting interest in any object unless it possesses certain special and fundamental artistic, technical, material, ideological or circumstantial qualities. Anything at all may be rare, even unique,
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