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On a charter of King Philip I of France in favour of the Abbey of Saint-Crépin at Soissons, dated 1063, among Latin texts and the crosses of illiterate magnates stand two words in Cyrillic: "АНА РЪИНА"

Queen Anna. This is the only surviving authentic signature of Anna Yaroslavna, daughter of Yaroslav the Wise, who became Queen of France. The charter is kept in the French archives and was attributed by historians in the 19th century, when systematic work began on the royal documents of medieval France.

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Queen Elizabeth II's private apartments at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the official residence of British monarchs in Scotland, will open to visitors for the first time from 21 May to 10 September 2026, marking the centenary of the late Queen's birth

Tickets go on general sale from 12 March, but they are far from cheap: £71 if bought in advance, or £75 on the day of the visit

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The Soviet AToS-1 special communications set, otherwise known as the "vertushka", in the private apartments of Elizabeth II

The Soviet AToS-1 special communications set, otherwise known as the "vertushka", in the private apartments of Elizabeth II. The cryptographic information-protection equipment is, in all likelihood, built into the walnut secretaire

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Grand Duchess Anastasia in a special basket saddle during an outing at Kuntsevo

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A few days ago at the Louvre, a portrait of the loathsome Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, stripped of his title of Prince, was stuck to a wall

A few days ago at the Louvre, a portrait of the loathsome Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, stripped of his title of Prince, was stuck to a wall. The news calls the people who did it activists. Naturally, they have some political or moral justification for their demonstration. In principle, after all,

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You yourselves robbed and plundered, you yourselves set up unrighteous judges, you yourselves sold and bought yourselves in the courts

Our men of ill repute... judge themselves and pardon themselves Ivan the Terrible, in his letter to Prince Kurbsky and in his epistle to Archbishop Pimen of Novgorod, 1570s

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The worst director in the Louvre's history replaced by Christophe Leribault, formerly president of the Palace of Versailles

French President Emmanuel Macron announced the appointment of the 63-year-old Leribault at a meeting of the Council of Ministers. Leribault is an art historian who has previously worked at the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Petit Palais and Versailles. This may prove a strategic turning point

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The oldest known photograph of London was taken in 1839

The oldest known photograph of London was taken in 1839. It shows the equestrian statue of Charles I near Charing Cross station This is the oldest bronze statue in London. It rises on a traffic island where Trafalgar Square meets Whitehall. The spot is officially called the “centre of London”

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Nicholas II's Half-Track Packard 3-38 of 1915

The photograph was taken in February 1917 in front of the Shuvalov Palace on Italyanskaya Street; by that time the Tsar's motor car had already been requisitioned and handed over to the Military Motor-Car School

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She who lives to eat and is mad for sweetmeats, whose only pleasure is her belly and her throat, who stuffs her cheeks and her paunch, a gluttonous queen, grows fat herself and makes her husband's purse lean

The main thing is not to become like the Queen of England of 1625 to 1649, Henrietta Maria of France, as she is portrayed in satirical pamphlets. Deeply unpopular, she became the heroine of such insulting sketches; she was accused of extravagance, foreign influence and sympathy for the Catholic powers.

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According to this genealogical construction, the English royal family, namely Elizabeth II and her descendants, trace their origin to the progenitor of the 12 Tribes of Israel, the third Old Testament patriarch Jacob, called Israel

According to this genealogical construction, the English royal family, namely Elizabeth II and her descendants, trace their origin to the progenitor of the 12 Tribes of Israel, the third Old Testament patriarch Jacob, called Israel. What is more, Elizabeth is a descendant of Jacob-Israel and his son Judah not

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On Pharaoh's Cart

At the very beginning of the eighteenth century, Metropolitan Stefan Yavorsky, in his sermons, likens the Russian state, "our most glorious monarchy", to the chariot of Ezekiel. The comparison is most interesting, and not only because the chariot, which by design ought to move across the plane of