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Note that the Count of Bellamont is wearing odd-coloured shoes, and with spurs to boot. Only the most daring dandies could permit themselves footwear of differing colours; it was considered the height of style
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How did Benedict Cumberbatch end up related to Sirius Black and Draco Malfoy? Judging by the fact that many names on the Black family tree do not match the source, this is a joke by the set designer
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One cannot, truth be told, say that the couple of Georgian heirs look particularly regal. Photograph from the wedding in 2008 at the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi
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Today the heir to the crown is said to be the child born of the marriage of David Bagration-Mukhransky and Anna Bagration-Gruzinskaya, whose family was precisely that of the Most Serene Princes and was reckoned to possess royal dignity. It is the second time in two centuries that
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With talk in Georgia of putting the restoration of the monarchy to a referendum, I have decided to continue my account of the Bagration-Mukhransky dynasty. The Georgian noble house of Bagration-Mukhransky is linked with the House of Romanov by several dynastic marriages. The most significant of them, of
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Not all the Bagration-Mukhranskys were overtaken by the avenging hand of the Bolsheviks. Why Maria Georgievna Bagration-Mukhranskaya did not go into emigration after her father and sister one can only guess. Georgy Bagration-Mukhransky, contrary to the logic of the repressive machine, was let out of the country
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The beauty Maria Gunning died at 27 of lead poisoning. Her favourite cosmetic was white lead for the face, which, alas, is no longer manufactured. Incidentally, her husband did not permit her to paint
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Remember Louis XIV's irritating younger brother, the gay Philippe d'Orléans? The so-called spare heir succumbed to the temptations of sodomy very early. In his early youth the Duke of Orléans was raped by Philippe Mancini, Duke of Nevers, a nephew of Cardinal Mazarin. From that
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History knows cases in which children were given a matronymic instead of a patronymic, that is, a name derived from the mother's line, both in Rus' and in Europe. For example, when the mother was of nobler stock, or when the child was illegitimate. So it was
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