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Felix Yusupov and Irina Romanova
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The appearance of Catherine of Aragon in contemporary accounts and Francis's remark about her
In 1519 the French king Francis remarked of Catherine of Aragon that Henry VIII had an old, shapeless wife, while he himself was young and handsome. Catherine of Aragon was 34 at the time, Henry 28, Francis 25. When Catherine was 30, the Venetian ambassador described her as rather ugly
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On the wall of Napoleon III's study hangs the new plan of Paris, enlarged to 20 arrondissements and rebuilt at the emperor's behest by Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann (the surname derives from the German Hausmann) in 1860
On the wall of Napoleon III's study hangs the new plan of Paris, enlarged to 20 arrondissements and rebuilt at the emperor's behest by Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann (the surname derives from the German Hausmann) in 1860. The Paris we see today came into being thanks
Art · Monarchies · People
I Am Not Here to Play the Coward!
The British king George II before the Battle of Dettingen
Monarchies · Science · Humour
A resident of the Scottish town of Dunfermline invented a tripod with which one could walk on the surface of water
A resident of the Scottish town of Dunfermline invented a tripod with which one could walk on the surface of water. The three-legged conveyance rested on air cushions and was peerless for hunting. When William Kant was to demonstrate his invention to King George IV and set off across
Archive · Faith · Monarchies · Heritage
Private Ivan Babcock of the US Army tries on the crown of Charlemagne in a cave at Siegen, Germany, 3 April 1945
Private Ivan Babcock of the US Army tries on the crown of Charlemagne in a cave at Siegen, Germany, 3 April 1945. The chamber deep inside the mountain at Siegen was filled with treasures, from the golden reliquary holding the relics of Charlemagne and the Cross of Lothair to paintings
Archive · London · Monarchies · Observations
Tsarevich Nicholas and the Duke of York George at a London wedding in 1893
The cousins Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich and George, Duke of York, in 1893, before they became Emperor Nicholas II (in 1894) and King George V (in 1910). The photograph was taken when the Tsarevich Nicholas was in London for the wedding of the Duke of York and Princess Mary of Teck.
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Lermontov’s 1831 poem “St. Helena” on the exile and grave of Napoleon
Let us greet with a salutation the lonely island, Where often, sunk in thought, On the shore, of distant France Napoleon would remember! Son of the sea, amid the seas is your grave! Here is vengeance for the torments of so many days! The sinful country did not deserve That
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Queen Elizabeth II at the Ascot races, 16 June 1961
Faith · Art · Monarchies · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Repin's 1888 painting with the likenesses of contemporaries, bought by Alexander III
The poet Apollon Maykov prevents the painter Nikolai Kuznetsov from cutting off the head of the writer Ieronim Yasinsky, while the Symbolist Dmitry Merezhkovsky, in chains, contemplates the proceedings with detachment. 1888, Ilya Repin. This is just what Repin's painting "St Nicholas of Myra Saves Three Innocents
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King Harald V of Norway, aged 86, fell but got up and went on his way
King Harald V of Norway, 86, has had a fall. But he got up and carried on