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The Notion of Napoleon's Small Stature Is an English Forgery
The notion of Napoleon's small stature is an English forgery. With the average Frenchman of the time standing at about 164 cm, Napoleon, at 168 cm, was appreciably taller not only than most ordinary men but also than his own soldiers: a recruit could enter the French army
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New monument to the Governor-General of Moscow, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov, and his wife, Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna, unveiled in Klimentovsky Lane, beside Tretyakovskaya metro station
The monument depicts the grand ducal couple on the day of their wedding in 1884. Elizaveta Feodorovna wears a bridal gown with a flowing train. Sergei Alexandrovich is dressed in the uniform of the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment, which he commanded from 1887 to 1891. Sergei Romanov was killed in
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The King and Queen of Spain in Valencia, Struck by an Unprecedented and, as some write, Man-Made Flood
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Besides the headlines with their droll puns, heirbnb and scarebnb, there is the recent piece in The Sun about the purchase of new property in Portugal by Prince Harry and his in every respect charming American wife, Markle, presumably to let out…
The money comes, remarkably enough, as an inheritance from his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, née Bowes-Lyon. Here is how it came about. The Queen Mother, matriarch of the British monarchy, died in 2002, a very short time before her 102nd birthday. So why was her legacy
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Alexander III with his children watering trees in the garden
Late 1880s.
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The daughters of Emperor Nicholas II out walking with Anna Vyrubova, the closest and most devoted friend of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
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Woman sees face of Princess Diana in slice of tinned ham
A woman has seen the face of Princess Diana in a slice of tinned ham. Though it looks rather more like Margaret Thatcher, my dear, or like pareidolia, the psychological phenomenon whereby people see faces in all manner of everyday objects, surfaces, abstract textures and details of the landscape
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Arrival of Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna at the site of the foundation of the church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Blessed Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky (Nikolo-Bargradsky) at the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society
Arrival of Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna at the site of the foundation of the church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Blessed Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky (Nikolo-Bargradsky) at the Imperial Palestine Society. The church was blown up in 1932
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Grand Dukes Vladimir Alexandrovich and Alexander Alexandrovich, Duke Nikolai Maximilianovich of Leuchtenberg and Duke Albert of Saxe-Altenburg amuse themselves with a camera in Saint Petersburg of the 1860s as best they can
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The overwhelming majority of Australians want to keep the monarchy after the first visit of King Charles III and Queen Camilla to Australia
Roy Morgan poll, 27 October 2024 The republic can wait
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Irina Korina's charming works with éclairs on the Sistema gallery stand, devoted to Marie Antoinette's phrase "let them eat cake"
But just in case, let me remind you that "If they have no bread, let them eat cake!" was attributed to the hapless Marie Antoinette all the same. She never said it. The original goes back to a text by Rousseau.