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A meeting of exiled queens in Lausanne. The exiled Queen of Spain, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, receives the daughters of her cousin, the Greek queen consort Sophia of Prussia, the exiled Queen of Romania, Helen, and the exiled Queen of Croatia, Irene, at her own residence, Vieille Fontaine, in 1968.
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When you truly love one another, borders become no more than lines on the political map of the world. The proof is a group photograph of European princes at an aristocratic gathering in Denmark. From left to right: Carl of Sweden, Christian of Denmark (the future King of Denmark and
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Former Vogue editor André Leon Talley with actress and socialite Lee Radziwill. They were good friends, and died two years apart. In 2020 Talley's memoir The Chiffon Trenches was published, which he dedicated to Lee Radziwill with the words: "For three decades she gave me unconditional love,
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Meet Princess Gloria of Thurn and Taxis, née Countess von Schönburg-Glauchau. A great many nineteenth-century novels began with this very plot: a girl from an impoverished noble family marries a wealthy man much older than herself... In 1980 the dutiful Catholic Gloria agreed to become the wife of
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The exhibition “The French Taste of the Princes Yusupov” at the New Jerusalem Museum offers a rare opportunity to trace the history of French painting as assembled by a single collector, Prince Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov (1750-1831), Director of the Armoury Chamber. The Yusupov collection is famous the world over,
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In the late 1790s the celebrated Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun worked in Russia, painting august portraits and persons of the very highest rank, such as the last King of Poland; she devoted a separate part of her memoirs to the Russian period, and it has been published in Russian. The
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Princess Maria Annunciata of Liechtenstein and Princess Maria Astrid of Liechtenstein at their weddings, three weeks apart, in the very same pearl and diamond earrings from their mother's wedding:
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If you happen to have thirty-five to forty million roubles lying about, you might consider acquiring the tiara of Pauline Bonaparte. My business is merely to suggest it