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A Happy Grandfather in a Viking Helmet: King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Delighted as a Child at the Opening of the Viking-Themed Amusement Park Vikingaslav in 2017

A happy grandfather in a Viking helmet: King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, delighted as a child at the opening of the Viking-themed amusement park Vikingaslav in 2017. The Vikings left the historical stage long ago, yet they remain the core of the collective memory of a glorious past

Architecture · Monarchies · Museums · Paris

Marie Antoinette's bedroom at Versailles is being refurnished with authentic pieces only

Looking at the poverty of the furnishings, it is hard to believe that this photograph shows the bedchamber of Marie Antoinette's private apartments on the ground floor of Versailles, overlooking the Marble Court. But it really is. The museum staff have decided to fill the room with authentic

NB! · Faith · Monarchies · Humour

The Biggest Fan of Emperor Constantine After Empress Helena

Faith · Monarchies · Society · People

The Impeccable Style of Jacques Cathelineau, First Generalissimo of the Catholic and Royal Army, Who Stood Against the Revolutionary Forces in the Vendée Uprising in France in the 1790s

Today we remember the martyrdom of a linen dealer who headed a counter-revolutionary revolt, took the town of Cholet five days later, and was soon elected commander-in-chief of the Catholic and Royal forces.

NB! · Aristocracy · Faith · The East · Monarchies · People

Queen Elizabeth II is among the few monarchs in whose veins runs the blood of the Prophet Muhammad

Aristocracy · Archive · Faith · Monarchies

Genealogy traces the lineage of Elizabeth II to the patriarch Jacob and Judah

A family tree showing that Queen Elizabeth II traces her descent from the progenitor of the 12 tribes of Israel, the third Old Testament patriarch Jacob, called Israel. Moreover, she is a descendant of Jacob-Israel and of his son Judah not only on her father's side but

Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies · People

The unheard-of and barbarous treatment which the King inflicts upon me obliges me to leave France and withdraw to Venice […] If His Royal Highness wished it, I should have the honour of speaking with him, I should tell him many things which, I am sure, wo

The unheard-of and barbarous treatment which the King inflicts upon me obliges me to leave France and withdraw to Venice […] If His Royal Highness wished it, I should have the honour of speaking with him, I should tell him many things which, I am sure, would afford him infinite

NB! · Archive · Monarchies · Paris

The History of the French Kings in a Single Picture

Geography · Maps · Monarchies

Why an infographic shows Greece in the Roman Empire longer than Rome itself

A curious map showing how many years each region was part of the Roman Empire, Eastern and Western alike. There are, admittedly, questions to be put to Greece, which, if the infographic is to be believed, was part of the Roman Empire for longer than Rome itself. Here, however, account

Cinema · Monarchies · Observations · Mores

Anyone who dreams of a prince should watch the 1969 film "Anne of the Thousand Days", which won the Oscar for Best Costume Design

Anyone who dreams of a prince should watch the 1969 film "Anne of the Thousand Days", which won the Oscar for Best Costume Design. True, the picture contains a number of dubious historical allusions, such as the presence of Mary Tudor at her mother's deathbed, which

Aristocracy · Madrid · Monarchies · Observations · Saint Petersburg · Humour

I do not know whether the video has reached the internet yet, in which, yesterday, at the newly opened Juan Cantina Española in Petersburg, having read the Spanish Vanity Fair and eaten my fill of fried artichokes, I shouted that within two hundred metres

I do not know whether the video has reached the internet yet, in which, yesterday, at the newly opened Juan Cantina Española in Petersburg, having read the Spanish Vanity Fair and eaten my fill of fried artichokes, I shouted that within two hundred metres there was no more beautiful woman

Monarchies · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour

Nothing so adorns a woman of a certain age, short of a solid property portfolio, as a custom bag printed with photos of her grandchildren

What, you ask, is this stylish item at the entrance to the royal palace in Amsterdam, on which I have cast my eye? Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands! And once again she delights us with a chic look: yesterday, before the dinner for the diplomatic corps, the former Queen of