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The Imperial Wedding Crown of silver, crimson velvet and diamonds: a small piece, 14.5 cm high and 10 cm in diameter, worn as a female crown at the weddings of members of the House of Romanov from 1884 to 1908. Until 1884, an individual crown made from stones of
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At night, military rehearsals for the parade and the coronation processions of the various branches of the armed forces are in full swing in London, with tens of thousands of people taking part. The English know how to prize their heritage and traditions regardless of fashion, and to place their
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Every king of England and of Britain since 1308 has sat on the Stone of Destiny, set into the chair of Edward the Confessor, at the moment of coronation, with the exception of Mary I and Mary II
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Offa (757-796), a Black King of Anglo-Saxon England? This time it is the dynasty of the first kings of the Angles that has been subjected to blackwashing. In particular, the most powerful ruler of Scandinavia and northern Germany, the son of Wermund and grandson of Wihtlæg, a descendant
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On 28 April 1813 Mikhail Kutuzov died of a cold in Bunzlau, aged 68. It is held that before his death the great Kutuzov was at last reconciled with his perpetual adversary, Tsar Alexander I. The constant quarrels between Alexander I and Kutuzov had begun as long ago as 1805,
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A note from the eleven-year-old Princess Lilibet, the future Queen Elizabeth II, to her parents, George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, on the day of their coronation, 12 May 1937. The loss of simplicity, naivety and spontaneity is, after all, one of the most significant losses mankind suffered
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On 21 April Elizabeth II would have turned 97. In the photograph the Queen is pictured in her last summer, surrounded by her younger grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Beside Her Majesty are her grandchildren Lady Louise Windsor and James, Earl of Wessex, the children of Prince Edward; her great-grandchildren
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Frank A. Nankivell's illustration, with its voice from the past, urged the Russian autocrat to heed the entreaties of his subjects, that he might avoid the guillotine already visible on the horizon. He did not heed them
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Pope Francis has made the grandest of gifts to the British Crown in honour of the forthcoming coronation of Charles III. Francis I has presented the monarch with two fragments of wood from the True Cross of the Lord. The fragments, or rather tiny splinters, 5 and 10 mm in