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Today marks 20 years since the death of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
Today marks 20 years since the death of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. I remember the day she died as if it were yesterday, and I grieved very deeply. She truly held a quite special place in the hearts of many. The pain was comparable only to the loss of
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Byron in “Don Juan” describes the 62-year-old Catherine II as a woman in the bloom of maturity
"Of course, her pleasant face bore traces of obesity": I suggest that all ageists read Byron's description of Catherine II, the imperial mistress of Don Juan. It might seem a not especially flattering beginning. But in fact Byron is kind and benevolent towards the 62-year-
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Klyuchevsky on the global significance of Alexander III's reign in a speech of 28 October 1894
"Thirteen years of the reign of Emperor Alexander III have passed, and the more hurriedly the hand of death hastened to close His eyes, the wider and more astonished grew the eyes of Europe to the world significance of this brief reign. At last even the stones cried out:
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I wonder whether Elizabeth II will use a golf buggy to get about at public events, as the Queen Mother did in her day?
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Princess Elizabeth and Prince Charles, photograph by Cecil Beaton, 1948, Vogue
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Charles, photograph by Cecil Beaton, 1948, Vogue. Although the child here is only a month old, there is no tiger-cub emoji on his face. Besides being the first published photograph of Prince Charles in the magazine, it is the first royal photograph printed in the
Archive · Monarchies · Paris
Napoleon's return from Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and how contemporaries reacted
19 March 1815: French army officers salute King Louis XVIII. 20 March 1815: the same officers fall on their knees before Napoleon. Napoleon's return from exile on the island of Elba to Paris was a veritable triumph. The newspapers modestly saw off the king, who had left the
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On 13 March 1881, Alexander II was killed
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Queen Victoria on Horseback
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An address by Maria Vladimirovna Romanova has been published on the website of the Russian Imperial House
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A Meeting of Exiled Queens in Lausanne
A meeting of exiled queens in Lausanne. The exiled Queen of Spain, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, receives the daughters of her cousin, the Greek queen consort Sophia of Prussia, the exiled Queen of Romania, Helen, and the exiled Queen of Croatia, Irene, at her own residence, Vieille Fontaine, in 1968.
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Queen Victoria and her Pomeranian Turi, whom she asked to keep beside her on her deathbed
Queen Victoria with her beloved Pomeranian Spitz, Turi. The Queen asked that Turi be at her side on her deathbed