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Lady Hertford was one of the best-known mistresses of the Prince of Wales, the future George IV. She was the wife of his friend, and the prince was a frequent guest at their house. It was joked that not a day passed without George calling on Lady Hertford. Although
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In the background, Frederick, Duke of York, has gone down as well, having tripped over a stone inscribed "darling from Windsor". Georg's depiction contains several curious details, the enormous backside aside: on his right foot, for instance, one can spot a strange piece of footwear, a
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High-life mishaps, or the royal hobby goes awry. Look closely at this caricature, especially at the arrangement of the figures: it appears that the Prince Regent is wedged between the thighs of his mistress, Lady Hertford
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The composite battle cry of the French knights, Mont-joie Saint-Denis!, has been known since the time of Charlemagne, but it spread most widely under Louis the Fat, who in the story is the suzerain of the Count de Malfête. The etymology of the cry is traced back to
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The Duke and Duchess of Angoulême: he puts one in mind of our pensioners in Rubchinsky, chasing fashion with their brains switched off; really, silly boy, can one go about with a bikini line like that? Not even in 1823.
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Catherine II was nevertheless the greatest ruler of Russia. Consider only her determination to acquire Voltaire's library for the country at all costs! Neither the expense nor the difficulties of the negotiations stopped her. The library was installed beside the Empress's apartments. Of its nearly 7,
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His Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales, takes boxing lessons, 1786. Judging by the face, the future King George IV is standing in the middle; he is 26 here. The man with the wound on his face is the trainer, John Jackson
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A few days ago I wrote about the mourning suite of the Duchess of Aumale. https://theparnassian.com/stulchik-iz-garnitura-gertsogini-omal-ili-frantsuzskoi-printsessy-marii-karoliny-burbon-sitsiliiskoi/ https://theparnassian.com/tak-etot-stulchik-vygliadit-s-iznachalnoi-obivkoi/ https://theparnassian.com/delo-v-tom-chto-po-drevnei-traditsii-
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The Emperor of China enthroned. The Louvre Abu Dhabi has a similar tapestry with a Chinese figure in a boat. In some palace or other you will surely find a continuation of the story: in Europe, the adventures of the ruler of the Celestial Empire were all the fashion
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The French intellectual of the late nineteenth century Henri Vaugeois, known as one of the founders of the monarchist organisation Action Française, was an advocate, as he put it himself, of an “anti-Semitic, anti-Masonic, anti-parliamentary and anti-democratic” nationalism. In short, the full set of an obscurantist
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The thing is that, by ancient tradition, after the death of a king or a member of the royal family the courtiers and the palace were clothed in mourning violet (dark lilac). The upholstered suite from the apartments of the Duchess of Aumale, wife of Prince Henri of Bourbon (Orléans)