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Jean Froissart describes the horrors of the “Bal des Ardents” of 1398, when a spark set alight costumes and masks made of linen soaked in pitch. Charles VI, dressed as a wild man, managed to save himself by hiding beneath the skirts of the Duchess de Berry; one or two
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A woman in a nun's habit among personages in crowns and diamonds: the founder of the sisterhood of Greek Orthodox nuns, the Order of Martha and Mary, Prince Philip's mother, Alice of Battenberg, at the coronation of her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth II. At birth Alice
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Persian Carpet by Mohtashem of Kashan with a Portrait of Nicholas II. Mohtashem was a celebrated weaver who, in the Iranian city of Kashan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, produced carpets so skilful and of such high quality that his name became a byword for an entire
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The Women of Paris Go to Call on the King at Versailles, 5 October 1789. It was the March of the Women on Versailles, or the march of the women for bread, 234 years ago, that became one of the key turning points of the French Revolution. The women of
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Diana's brother Charles Spencer has shared a photograph from the family archive showing Queen Mary of Teck surrounded by the Spencers during her visit to their ancestral seat, Althorp House. The picture shows the grandfather and grandmother of Charles and Diana, their aunt, and their father with a
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The film is devoted to the end of British rule in India. Lord Mountbatten, who presided over the partition of British India into Pakistan and India, is played by Hugh Bonneville. His wife, Lady Edwina, is played by Gillian Anderson. Michael Gambon plays Lord Ismay, the Chief of Staff, who
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What a plump little horse in Francisco Goya's equestrian portrait of the 1st Duke of Wellington. It was originally a portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, but Goya later painted Wellington's head over Bonaparte's
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Inseparable friends, bound for Elba. Inscription on the reverse: we conquered in order to liberate the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Marquess of Wellington, Prince Schwarzenberg. 31 March 1814
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