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Mood for the Evening: Prince Michael of Kent and His Wife, Princess Michael of Kent, Baroness Marie Christine von Reibnitz, Leave the Exclusive Oswald's Club in Mayfair in Their Car
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The Late Queen Fabiola of Belgium Sends Greetings to Her Niece, Princess Margaretha of Luxembourg and Liechtenstein, Who Wore Her Diamond Earrings to the Wedding of Her Daughter, Princess Marie-Annunciata of Liechtenstein, in Vienna the Other Day
Sorry if, from now on, you will always picture the departed owners of old things saluting you from the other world whenever you come to use them. On the other hand, it may even be good for you
Aristocracy · In the Press · Observations · Mores · Ethnography
Sofya Bagdasarova has published an interesting piece on love between Romani women and Russian noblemen in the nineteenth century
Sofya Bagdasarova has published an interesting piece on love between Romani women and Russian noblemen in the nineteenth century. And here I cannot help recalling the love story of Maria Mikhailovna Shishkina, a singer in the Tula Romani choir, and Sergey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, the elder brother of Leo Tolstoy. At
Aristocracy · Art · Observations · Paris · People · Pop Culture
Does anyone still remember the Marquis Jean-Charles de Castelbajac?
Does anyone still remember the Marquis Jean Michel de Castelbajac? A designer from the distant past, who dressed Madonna in a coat of teddy bears and was famed for his rainbow palette and witty solutions, once even earning the title of France's king of kitsch, and who befriended
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Portrait of the French Aristocrat, Industrialist and Scientist Armand de Gramont, Duc de Guiche (1879-1962)
Artist: Philip de László
Aristocracy · In the Press · London · Monarchies
The English press debates whether Prince Charles will defy the wishes of his late father: who is to inherit the title of Duke of Edinburgh, Edward, Earl of Wessex, as Prince Philip bequeathed it, or Charles after all, to whom it belongs by seniority?
It was said as long ago as 1999, immediately after his wedding to Sophie Rhys-Jones, that Edward would receive his father's ducal title. Nevertheless, barely three months after the death of Philip Mountbatten, Prince Charles, according to an unnamed source, reminded those concerned that it is he
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A memorial marker at Yasnaya Polyana on the site of the house laid down by Prince Volkonsky, in which his grandson, Leo Tolstoy, would be born
A memorial marker at Yasnaya Polyana on the site of the house laid down by Prince Volkonsky, in which his grandson, Leo Tolstoy, would be born. Like the rebuilt estate of Bald Hills in «War and Peace», the house was built after the prince's death, and somewhat more
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What's That You Say?
What's that you say? All rappers' wives look the same? One wonders how Henri Gascar, the French painter, would have commented on it in 1697, with his portrait of Marie Casimire Sobieska, Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania, with her daughter Therese Kunegunde, Electress of
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When the painter Jacques-Émile Blanche was introduced to Jeanne Lebaudy, Countess de Fels, heiress to the sugar magnate, she was a little over fifty, and Blanche remarked: "What a pity we did not meet twenty years ago, how I should have liked to…
To which the countess replied: "Surely you have not lost all your talent?" In the striking portrait in shades of red by Léon Comerre, Jeanne is still an unmarried girl.
Aristocracy · Archive · London · Monarchies
Four heirs to the British crown at their joint 21st birthday party at Windsor Castle in 1985
The year 1964 is remembered by the English for a royal baby boom, when four royal heirs arrived within the space of a few months. That year the Queen herself was delivered of a child, as were her sister Princess Margaret, her cousin Princess Alexandra of Kent and her cousin
Aristocracy · Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums · Society
Speaking of aristocrats and art: on the upper floor of MAMM, an archival exhibition by Lauren Greenfield on the life of the Moscow post-Soviet elite, a photographic project of 2012-2014 in which the artist set out to capture the daily life and pretensions
Speaking of aristocrats and art: on the upper floor of MAMM, an archival exhibition by Lauren Greenfield on the life of the Moscow post-Soviet elite, a photographic project of 2012-2014 in which the artist set out to capture the daily life and pretensions of Russia's wealthy.