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In This Room, on 22 January 1901, Queen Victoria Died
In this room, on 22 January 1901, Queen Victoria died. Well, with walls that colour, it is hardly surprising
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George V died by euthanasia in 1936, which became known only in 1986
The death of George V in the very first days of 1936 was not natural. The king's physician administered to him a lethal mixture of morphine and cocaine. By then the king had lapsed into a coma owing to bronchial complications. It is believed that the royal physician
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Ivan the Terrible and the boyars in Belinsky's 1836 review of Polevoy's history book
Remember how they drummed the great Vissarion Belinsky into our heads at school. Well, let us turn to his writings. Here is a review of 1836 of N. Polevoy's «Russian History for First Reading», in which Belinsky calls Ivan the Terrible a man of good inclinations, and a
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An excellent infographic describing the standards, flags and banners displayed at the coronation of Elizabeth II
An excellent infographic describing the standards, flags and banners displayed at the coronation of Elizabeth II. The English Tatler
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Tatler cover devoted to the coronation of Elizabeth II, June 1953
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The English Royal Family Has Its Own Pet Cemetery at the Sandringham Estate
The English royal family has its own pet cemetery at the Sandringham estate. Buried here are numerous corgis belonging to Queen Elizabeth II, as well as other departed pets of members of the family. The cemetery was established by Queen Victoria when her beloved collie Noble died in 1887
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Prince Harry's Book Wrongly Claims That All Royal Corgis Descend from Queen Victoria's Dog
Prince Harry's book wrongly claims that all royal corgis descend from Queen Victoria's dog. In fact, corgis appeared in the royal family only in 1930. The first was a corgi named Dookie. Princess Margaret had a corgi called Jane. All the Queen's corgis descend
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It follows that on 10 January 2023, with the death of Constantine II of Greece, Europe lost its last* Orthodox monarch
It follows that on 10 January 2023, with the death of Constantine II of Greece, Europe lost its last* Orthodox monarch. Constantine II reigned from 1964 to 1973, died in his 83rd year, and will be buried in Athens *Constantine was the last of Europe's reigning Orthodox monarchs.
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King James I Stuart wrote the Daemonologie, a book on witches and witchcraft, and the Emperor Claudius, of the patrician house of the Julii-Claudii, one on games of chance, but the strangest work ever to come from the pen of a royal…
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A Nazi Vampire in the Guise of a Bat Visits King Carol II of Romania in His Bedchamber by Night
The illustration evidently alludes to the antisemitic laws adopted by Carol II in 1940
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Charlemagne's empire 600 years later consists of many warring independent states
843: Charlemagne's empire must be divided among his three grandsons to avoid a succession crisis in the future. 600 years later: Charlemagne's empire is a patchwork quilt of countless independent states at war with one another
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