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Crown Prince Peter Karageorgevich of Serbia, the elder son of Prince Alexander Karageorgevich and grandson of King Peter II of Yugoslavia, has renounced his right to the Serbian throne, for himself and his descendants, in favour of his younger brother, Prince Philip. He has not, however, given up his name,
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To a certain extent, they may be called relations, by way of Tyutchev's second wife, the former Baroness Ernestine von Pfeffel. Ernestine's own brother, the Bavarian Baron Karl Maximilian von Pfeffel, who was related to Duke Paul of Württemberg, Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, King Wilhelm II
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On the English-language Tatler website a long piece on the couture history of the House of Dior has appeared, written by Amelia Windsor, granddaughter of the Duke of Kent. Amelia is not merely forty-second in line to the English throne: she combines modelling with editorial work at Tatler,
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They were young, merry, discovering the world... The future King Edward VIII and his cousin, the future Viceroy of India, Louis Mountbatten: - imagine, after all this our nephews will marry - and will rule England - and will rule England - you idiot, stop it))))))
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Frank Cadogan Cowper, 1910. Tate Museum
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At the Leningrad University philological faculty, Tatyana Gnedich, great-great-grandniece of the translator of the «Iliad», was accused, in her postgraduate studies, of concealing her noble origins. When the accusation reached Gnedich herself, she objected: how could she possibly have concealed her nobility with the surname Gnedich, when the
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Lady Diana Cooper, silent film actress and one of the celebrated society ladies of her day, hostess of legendary balls in Paris, wife of the British ambassador to France Duff Cooper, when he was granted the title of Viscount Norwich, expressed the utmost displeasure, for "Norwich" sounds like
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Nikolai Yusupov, principal heir to the Yusupov fortune and to the princely title of his mother, Zinaida Yusupova, Count Sumarokov-Elston. Elder brother of Felix Yusupov. Killed in a duel in 1908, aged 25