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Executive Committee resolves to arrest Nicholas Romanov and prevent his departure for England
Resolution of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of 9 (22) March 1917:. “In view of information received that the Provisional Government has granted Nicholas Romanov the opportunity to leave for England, it has been resolved to declare forthwith to the Provisional Government the inflexible will of the Executive
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The Palace of Knossos, a Postcard of 1900
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The future King Charles III and Princess Anne chat as they sit in their prams in the garden of Clarence House in 1951
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A frightening engraving of the September Massacres in Paris in 1792, at its centre the murder of the Princesse de Lamballe, whose head and heart are borne aloft on pikes, while her beheaded, flayed body is dragged through the city streets from…
A frightening engraving of the September Massacres in Paris in 1792, at its centre the murder of the Princesse de Lamballe, whose head and heart are borne aloft on pikes, while her beheaded, flayed body is dragged through the city streets from the prison of La Petite Force to the
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The American traveller, explorer and photographer Harriet Chalmers Adams in the Gobi Desert
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Funeral at sea of Lady Edwina Mountbatten off Portsmouth on 25 February 1960
When the Queen Mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, was told that Lady Edwina Mountbatten, the aunt of Prince Philip, would be buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully: “Dear old Edwina, she always did love to make a splash!”. That the last Vicereine of India, Lady Mountbatten, had willed to
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The mass-produced portrait of Princess Victoria, the future Queen Victoria, aged 4, even bears a facsimile of the princess's childish signature, VICTORIA
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Alexandra of Denmark and Mary of Teck, two queens of England and in-laws
Two Queens of England, the Queen Dowager Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925), "darling Mama", as George V called her, and George V's consort Mary of Teck (1867-1953), out for a stroll. Alexandra of Denmark was widowed at the age of 66 and lived to 81.
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A lady alone with a gentleman on a park path by a pavilion, watercolour
Queen Victoria and King Louis-Philippe of France at the Château d'Eu during the royal visit of 1843. Alone with a man. What a scandal!
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Lady Pamela Hicks, who at 93, after the death of Elizabeth II, became the oldest of Queen Victoria's descendants, told her daughter India on her podcast how Prince Philip's mother, Princess Alice (1885-1969), asked Lloyd George to…
Alice, of course, modestly hinted that if the question of rescuing the unfortunate girls had anything to do with their future maintenance, lodging and provision, she would take all of it upon herself. Naturally, the matter lay quite elsewhere. And she was, of course, told that it was impossible. Princess
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Costume designs for Luigi Manzotti’s ballet “Love” at La Scala, 17 February 1886
Which Fruit or Vegetable Do You Feel Like Today? Costume sketches for the ballet "Amor", presented by Luigi Manzotti at La Scala on 17 February 1886. One would, of course, like to be a salad, but all one manages is a potato