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The Mongol Empire and the Roman Empire. The former collapsed overnight; the latter lasted from the end of the Second Punic War until 1453.
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Who Was Olga, Queen of the Hellenes? The title "Queen of the Hellenes", rather than "Queen of Greece", is not diplomatic courtesy but a political declaration. Olga Konstantinovna Romanova was a granddaughter of Nicholas I and a daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich. In 1867, at
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Frederick William III, King of Prussia, with his sons thanks Moscow for the salvation of his state. Nikolay Matveyev, 1896, Tretyakov Gallery. The thanks are for the War of the Sixth Coalition of 1813-1814, and specifically for the fact that Russia did not stop after driving Napoleon from its
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Yesterday King Charles III and Camilla dropped in at Christie's in New York. Not for the sale, it must be said, but for a gala dinner in aid of the King's Trust, which turns 50 this year. At the preview of lots for the forthcoming sales,
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This remarkable phrase appears in the testament of Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy. The whole sentence runs thus: "And should God change the Horde, my children shall not be obliged to give the tribute to the Horde, and whichever of my sons takes tribute in his own appanage, to him
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The Parlement of Paris, or the Supreme Royal Court of France, in solemn session in the presence of King Charles VII. Miniature by Jean Fouquet from the Hours of Étienne Chevalier, 1450s. From about the summer of 1461, the future King Louis XI effectively isolated his father, Charles VII, in
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The Sun King's collection of unique diamonds, lost in the nineteenth century, recreated as full-size models for an exhibition at L'Ecole Van Cleef in Paris in 2018. The blue stone is called the Hope
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Familiar feeling? Incidentally, you end up at the resit, because it was Anne Hathaway
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Grace from On High. The inscription on the coronation token of Elizabeth Petrovna, 1742 And the reign of Peter's daughter truly was a gracious one
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In AD 217 the Praetorians murdered the Emperor Caracalla at Edessa. The Praetorian Guard were the emperors' personal bodyguard, elite troops stationed in Rome itself. Over two centuries they had dispatched more than one ruler and had grown used to deciding who would come next. Power passed to the
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Photograph by Cecil Beaton, 1955