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Prince Harry and Nicholas II: 120 Years On
Monarchies · Mores · Saint Petersburg · Humour
When Catherine II Was Giving Birth to Her Bastard Alexei Bobrinsky, Her Valet Vasily Shkurin Set Fire to His Own House to Distract Peter III, Who Loved to Run to Fires
When Catherine II was giving birth to her bastard Alexei Bobrinsky, her valet Vasily Shkurin set fire to his own house to distract Peter III, who loved to run to fires. Now that is devotion!
NB! · Monarchies · Museums · Paris · People
The child's dragoon uniform of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, first President of the French Republic and nephew of Napoleon
The child's dragoon uniform of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, first President of the French Republic and nephew of Napoleon. From the celebrated collection of fine objects assembled by Émile Hermès, now on display at Versailles
Faith · London · Monarchies · Heritage
Legend of Alfred the Great's Ghost and the Transfer of His Remains to Winchester's New Minster
According to the legend of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, when he died (in the early tenth century), he was buried in Winchester's old cathedral, the Old Minster, but the monks all but lost their wits and began to complain of being troubled by the royal ghost.
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Louis XIV and the fashion for guéridons, stands in the form of Moors in chains
Stands in the form of Moors, for flowers, sculptures and victuals, were brought into fashion by Louis XIV; they are called guéridons (from the French for 'warlike'). Only it is not clear what is warlike about slaves in chains.
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Only by looking at the wax portrait of Louis XIV can one grasp how innocent and charming all other statues and death masks are, even the eyeless ones
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Wax statue of Prince George of Denmark, husband of Queen Anne, at Rosenborg Castle
The eyeless wax statue of Prince George of Denmark at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen. George was the husband of Queen Anne of England
NB! · Aristocracy · Monarchies · Heritage
The tiara originally belonged to Queen Victoria's granddaughter Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, who had no children, and after her death in 1956 the jewel passed to her godson, the Duke of Gloucester
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Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, tries the Cartier Indian tiara with diamonds and pearls on a child
Monarchies · Mores · Society
Age of consent in Britain and Russia from Edward I to the laws of 1886
In 1837, when Victoria came to the throne, the age of consent in Britain was 12, and only in 1875 was it raised to 13. Needless to say, child prostitution flourished thanks to this provision. Although Edward I, who reigned in the thirteenth century, had introduced severe penalties for rape,
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