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Thomas Coutts, aged 80, head of Coutts Bank in the late eighteenth century, with his second wife, the 37-year-old actress Harriot Mellon
Thomas Coutts, aged 80, head of Coutts Bank in the late eighteenth century, with his second wife, the 37-year-old actress Harriot Mellon. They married in 1815, and the old man lived for another 7 years. After his death, Lady Harriot married the future Duke of St Albans, who
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The Moscow Romanovs took their wives from Russian noble families, and their blood was purely Russian blood
But from Peter the Great onwards it became the custom to marry the heirs to the throne to foreigners, chiefly Germans, and the Russian ruling dynasty turned into a thoroughbred non-Russian one. By the statutes of English horse-breeding, the "Stud Book" that is authoritative the world
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Golden sceptre of Empress Charlotte of Mexico goes under the hammer in Monte Carlo, estimated at €100,000 to €200,000
This 34-centimetre symbol of imperial power, of 22-carat gold and weighing more than 400 grams, is adorned with diamonds of exceptional spectrum, rubies, emeralds, pearls, perforation, filigree and openwork threads. The heraldic ribbon bears the inscription San Juan del Rio 1864: the precious insignia was made to the
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What do you make of this sumptuous eighteenth-century bedchamber in the Genoese Palazzo Rosso?
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1743
1743. Prince Dolgorukov receives, as the dowry of his bride, a modest estate not far from Ruza. In time he lays out here a rich and hospitable house in which to rest from the bustle of Moscow, builds churches, develops the farm and adorns the place in every way. In
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The economic crisis of late 1916 compelled many noble Muscovites to forsake their private transport for public, and to choose the tram, not yet so familiar, but far cheaper than a private motor car
The economic crisis of late 1916 compelled many noble Muscovites to forsake their private transport for public, and to choose the tram, not yet so familiar, but far cheaper than a private motor car. Alexandre Benois noted in his diary with astonishment that he had once met, on a tram,
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One of the Handsomest Princes in Europe: Leopold, Scion of the Reigning Princes of Saxe-Coburg and an Officer of the Russian Army, Who Became King of the Belgians and Guardian of the Future Queen Victoria
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July in the Très Riches Heures of the Duke of Berry, 15th century
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Felix Yusupov and Irina Romanova
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The Tailor Astride a Goat by Johann Joachim Kändler: A Rather Popular Subject in Meissen Porcelain of the 18th and 19th Centuries
The Tailor Astride a Goat by Johann Joachim Kändler is a rather popular subject in Meissen porcelain of the 18th and 19th centuries. The tailor comes in various versions: sometimes the shears hang from a horn, sometimes they rest on the goat's head, sometimes they are in the
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You may marvel along with me, if you too had no idea that the descendants of Montezuma Xocoyotzin, the last Aztec emperor, exist today as a European aristocratic family
They bear the title of Dukes of Montezuma de Tultengo. In all, Montezuma II had between 19 and 150 children by various women; it is known that some of them were executed and that two, Isabella and Pedro de Moctezuma, were baptised. The present head of the ducal house of