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Resolution of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of 9 (22) March 1917:. “In view of information received that the Provisional Government has granted Nicholas Romanov the opportunity to leave for England, it has been resolved to declare forthwith to the Provisional Government the inflexible will of the Executive
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When in chess the Ferz, meaning vizier, is called the Queen, this alludes to Eleanor of Aquitaine, mother of Richard the Lionheart, who is often named as the initiator of the chess reform that changed the name of the ferz. The photograph shows a chess figure of a queen from
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Anyone who has been to Turin cannot fail to remember the horse suspended from the dome of the former residence of the House of Savoy at Rivoli, which has housed a museum of contemporary art since 1984. Quite literally the subject of a nature morte, a still life, it is
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Imelda Staunton and Jonathan Pryce as the royal couple in the drama "The Crown" are certainly splendid, but during the November 1992 fire at Windsor Castle Prince Philip was presiding over a World Wildlife Fund congress in Buenos Aires and, however much he might have wished it, could
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A frightening engraving of the September Massacres in Paris in 1792, at its centre the murder of the Princesse de Lamballe, whose head and heart are borne aloft on pikes, while her beheaded, flayed body is dragged through the city streets from the prison of La Petite Force to the
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Camilla, Queen Consort of England, presented the 2022 Booker Prize to Shehan Karunatilaka, a 47-year-old Sri Lankan writer living in Singapore, for his book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. This is the seventh time Camilla has presented the award.
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Queen Camilla photographed with the Paddington bears left at the railings of Buckingham Palace in tribute to Elizabeth II. In all, mourners brought more than 1000 toy bears, and all of them will be handed over to the country's largest children's charity
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When the Queen Mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, was told that Lady Edwina Mountbatten, the aunt of Prince Philip, would be buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully: “Dear old Edwina, she always did love to make a splash!”. That the last Vicereine of India, Lady Mountbatten, had willed to
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