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First edition of Felix Yusupov's autobiography inscribed "For Jean Cocteau. From Felix Yusupov" found in the Library of the History of Paris
A first edition of Felix Yusupov's autobiography, inscribed "For Jean Cocteau. From Felix Yusupov", has been found in the Library of the History of Paris. Sent in by a reader
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King Charles III of England is a great-great-great-grandson of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia
King Charles III of England is a great-great-great-grandson of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia. He stands in the same degree of kinship to a reigning Russian monarch as the present heir to the headship of the House of Romanov, George Mikhailovich, who is a great-great-great-
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During his visit to England in the 1780s, François de La Rochefoucauld could not believe that King George III lived in the modest palace of Kew, with its two tiny outbuildings, while Louis XVI had Versailles
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The future Queen Elizabeth II with her maternal grandmother, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, in the garden of the family home, St Paul's Walden Bury, in Hertfordshire
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Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy's wife was called Sofya Andreyevna Tolstaya, just like the wife of Leo Tolstoy
Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy's wife was called Sofya Andreyevna Tolstaya, just like the wife of Leo Tolstoy. Alexei Konstantinovich and Leo Nikolayevich were second cousins to one another
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What Do the Nobility Think of Commoners Who Have Made Their Way in the World?
"These plebeians, who somehow or other force their way up: in all the many I have met, I have found them a remarkably capable and clever lot… Seminarists, petty townsfolk, all this small fry: always able, adroit gentlemen." "Ah, my dear, all hungry people are clever… You
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To mark Cosmonautics Day, here is a photograph of James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847-1913), President of the Royal Astronomical Society, dressed in heraldic regalia for the coronation of King George V in 1911
In the intervals of his aristocratic existence, this imposing old gentleman assembled one of the largest libraries of rare books in England, organised expeditions to the East to observe solar eclipses and the transit of Venus, built a private observatory, patronised astronomers, became a sponsor of the founding of the
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Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1920-2014)
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The Heraldic Crowns of the United Kingdom of Italy
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All Happy Families Are Alike; Every Unhappy Family Is Unhappy in Its Own Way
The children of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have officially received the titles of Prince and Princess. At the same time, the children of Prince Joachim of Denmark, likewise the younger child of a reigning monarch, were this year stripped of their titles of prince and princess. Yes, those very