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If one had to express all the ideas of the Baroque in a single image, this photograph would serve: a swaddled pearl infant, covered with a pearl blanket, in a cradle of gold filigree with silk trimming and pearl inlay

Aristocracy · Art · Museums

If one had to express all the ideas of the Baroque in a single image, this photograph would serve: a swaddled pearl infant, covered with a pearl blanket, in a cradle of gold filigree with silk trimming and pearl inlay

A masterpiece of the jewellers of the 17th century (the infant's face is even engraved on the pearl) was intended as a gift for the last representative of the House of Medici, Maria Luisa, wife of Elector Johann Wilhelm of the House of Wittelsbach, who was expected to

By Alexandr Radayev
Built in the first half of the twentieth century not far from Rome, the Villa Volpi still stirs connoisseurs of architectural styles with its neo-Palladian atmosphere, created against the fashion of the day by the architect Tomaso Buzzi in the heyday of m

Aristocracy · Architecture · Mores · Rome

Built in the first half of the twentieth century not far from Rome, the Villa Volpi still stirs connoisseurs of architectural styles with its neo-Palladian atmosphere, created against the fashion of the day by the architect Tomaso Buzzi in the heyday of m

Built in the first half of the twentieth century not far from Rome, the Villa Volpi still stirs connoisseurs of architectural styles with its neo-Palladian atmosphere, created against the fashion of the day by the architect Tomaso Buzzi in the heyday of modernism on the shore of the Tyrrhenian

By Alexandr Radayev
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!”

Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies · Mores · People · Humour

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 be buried at sea surprised many, but it was her long-held wish, on which she commented with humour, saying that burial in the churchyard of Romsey Abbey would hardly be the best option for someone who suffered from

By Alexandr Radayev
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…

Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies · People

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

By Alexandr Radayev
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