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Prince Harry turns 39 today, fifth in line to the British throne
Prince Harry turns 39 today, fifth in line to the British throne. One would wish him a little sense, and that the queue never, in fact, reaches him or his descendants
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How Napoleon handled papers and dictated to his secretaries, according to Andrew Roberts
Napoleon knew perfectly well how to set his priorities. Urgent tasks he took up at once; papers that were important but not pressing he laid in a pile to be dealt with later; and documents he did not consider important he threw on the floor. Whereas Louis XVIII had a
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Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna during her illness in 1910
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Tolkien kept the drawings of Ingahild Grathmer, who turned out to be the Queen of Denmark
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark Proves to Be One of the Acknowledged Illustrators of "The Lord of the Rings" Tolkien once received a letter from a certain Ingahild Grathmer, who sent him her drawings, inspired by the universe of Middle-earth. Although he preferred his books to have
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A project to remodel the Acropolis by the celebrated Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, whom Otto, the first King of the Greeks, invited to design a royal palace in Athens, a small provincial town of some 10,000 inhabitants…
Schinkel was far ahead of his time in proposing that the palace be built literally on the site of the ancient temples, folding the ruins of the age of Pericles into a residential and administrative royal quarter. In effect, this would have meant the destruction of the Acropolis with all
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Princess Anne, King Charles and Queen Camilla at the annual Highland gathering at Balmoral, the Braemar Gathering
Princess Anne is the only member of the royal family to have taken care to cover her knees. Though, the rules of etiquette for men wearing the kilt call for bare knees, since the length of a kilt, when the wearer stands, should reach the middle of the knee; when
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Princes William and Richard of Gloucester, cousins of Elizabeth II
The elder of the princes, William, was killed in a flying accident in 1972 at the age of 31: he was piloting an aeroplane in a race in Staffordshire when his wing clipped a tree. The title of Duke of Gloucester was inherited by his younger brother, Richard
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Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Duchess of Kent (1906-1968), beside the portrait of her mother, Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna (1882-1957)
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Le Touquet-Paris-Plage airport to be named after Elizabeth II with Charles III's consent
France is to name an airport after Elizabeth II. The proposal to rename the airport in the small town of Le Touquet-Paris-Plage on the shore of the Channel was sent by the town authorities to Buckingham Palace soon after the Queen's death. And at last Charles
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The United States' purchase of Louisiana from France in 1803 for 15 million dollars
The 1803 treaty for the purchase of Louisiana, France's North American possessions, signed by the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson originally wanted to buy only New Orleans from the French, in order to ease trade and logistics thanks to the port of New Orleans.
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When you want to be certain that a person has truly recognised their mistake
Elizabeth II watches forensic science students of Berkshire College gather evidence at a simulated crime scene