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Sotheby's puts up for sale the collections of the Iranian princess Niloufar Pahlavi, niece of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Sotheby's has put up for sale the collections of the Iranian princess Niloufar Pahlavi, niece of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The collection was kept in a mansion in the French capital, decorated by the legendary Renzo Mongiardino in the late 1970s. Most of the works of art
Aristocracy · Cinema · Books
Remembering the magnificent 1963 screen adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel "The Leopard", on the life of the aristocratic Salina family amid the political and social upheavals of the Risorgimento in Italy
Civil war is breaking out in Italy. On one side stand the republicans, followers of Garibaldi; on the other, the supporters of the ruling Bourbon dynasty. Alain Delon plays Tancredi, nephew of the protagonist, Prince Salina, who embodies the aristocracy in the face of fatal change. Prince Salina is played
Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies · Mores · Saint Petersburg
Interior of the study of Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dolgorukaya, the first Most Serene Princess Yuryevskaya, in her house on the English Embankment in Saint Petersburg
Interior of the study of Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dolgorukaya, the first Most Serene Princess Yuryevskaya, in her house on the English Embankment in Saint Petersburg. Photograph of 1876. Princess Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dolgorukova (Dolgorukaya), from 1880 Most Serene Princess Yuryevskaya (1847 to 1922), was the second, morganatic, wife of Emperor Alexander II;
Aristocracy · Monarchies · Observations · People · Humour
There is a very amusing theory that Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, is a Rothschild on her mother's side
There is a very amusing theory that Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, is a Rothschild on her mother's side. Her mother, née Goldsmith, is supposed to have come from the Goldsmith-Rothschild family. The theory is often refuted, but then such a fact would hardly be something to
Aristocracy · Cinema · Monarchies · Observations
I do not know why the film about Queen Victoria reports patently false information, but
in 1847 Queen Victoria conferred the hereditary title of baronet on a representative of the British branch of the Rothschild family, Anthony Nathan de Rothschild. After the death of the childless Sir Anthony the title passed to his nephew, Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild, on whom in 1885 Queen Victoria bestowed the
Aristocracy · Interviews · Education · People
I drew a very lucky ticket in my fate, because at the end of 1944, while the war was still going on, I was sent to the Moscow Choir School
I drew a very lucky ticket in my fate, because at the end of 1944, while the war was still going on, I was sent to the Moscow Choir School. This was preceded by the wartime years and then a rather painful evacuation. My father had already sent my papers
NB! · Aristocracy · In the Press · London · Monarchies · Mores · People
The Dashing Equerry Who Captured the Queen's Heart: The English Press Tells of Elizabeth II's Secret "Beloved", Lord Plunket
The dashing equerry who captured the Queen's heart: the English press tells of Elizabeth II's secret "beloved", Patrick Plunket, Baron Plunket. He served the Queen for 25 years and kept the secret of their "love" to the end of his life
Aristocracy · Monarchies · People
Michel Ney, Prince of the Moskva, Tries to Regain Napoleon's Favour
Marshal Ney, a brave man, a triumphant commander, a leading general and a favourite of France, was the very man who persuaded Bonaparte, his patron, to abdicate the throne, while he himself joined the military council of Louis XVIII. When Napoleon returned from the island of Elba, Ney promised Louis
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"No one doubted that the Emperor would now find himself honest and devoted men": from the memoirs of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna on the murder of Rasputin
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Magnificent woodwork in the studiolo from the Ducal Palace at Gubbio, created for Duke Federico da Montefeltro around 1480
Magnificent woodwork in the studiolo from the Ducal Palace at Gubbio, created for Duke Federico da Montefeltro around 1480. In the nineteenth century the studiolo was bought by a German art dealer and taken to Venice. In 1939 it was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum
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