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The sword of Francis I has a curious history: it was taken from him by an Italian colonel after his capture in Lombardy in 1525. In the reign of Philip II this sword, with its magnificent hilt, found its way into the Spanish royal armoury. The weapon returned to France
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In 2003 the Getty Museum acquired three miniatures from the fifteenth-century manuscript "The Hours of Louis XII", created by the court artist and painter of the French Renaissance Jean Bourdichon. One of the miniatures, depicting King Louis XII surrounded by four saints, seemed incomplete: the saints were
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Diane de Poitiers, favourite of the French King Henry II, was twenty years his senior. Just imagine how conspicuous such a difference was by the standards of the sixteenth century! She also outlived him by seven years. By all accounts, the delightful wife of the French President Macron, Brigitte, is
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Parade helmet of an officer of the Life Guards Horse Regiment with the large guards cockade in the form of a silver star of the Order of Saint Andrew the First-Called, with an enamel centre and the motto of the Order of Saint Andrew "For Faith and Loyalty&
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That supple, passionate body The crowd trampled underfoot for me, And mocked it, and stripped it… And at the body I did not Dare to look… But I was hacked off from the body, Flung, scraps Of inflamed flesh, upon a stone… And the Parisian rabble Carried me off in
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The future King Charles III and his younger sister Princess Anne, photographed to mark the Prince of Wales's eighth birthday. Photo by Lord Snowdon
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The year 1964 gave the British royal family four children. On 29 February Princess Alexandra gave birth to James, on 10 March Elizabeth II gave birth to Prince Edward, on 28 April the Duchess of Kent gave birth to Helen, and on 1 May Princess Margaret gave birth to Sarah.
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I don't want to do that. I'll leave him alone. He has enough problems with his wife as it is. She's terrible
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Will Trump deport Prince Harry? A good, interesting question. The case concerning Harold's visa and the reliability of his visa documents is to be reheard in court. The story began with the ill-starred and scantly talented memoir Spare, after reading which the right people noticed a discrepancy
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When Princess Diana died, Prince William was 15 and Prince Harry was 12
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And from our window the Place du Louvre is in view. A view of the colonnade of the east façade of the Louvre, a true masterpiece of French classicism. But we do not peep out of every secret little window of the royal palaces for nothing. Another name for this