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Prince Andrew of Greece after his exile and his son Philip's attitude towards him

Fathers come in all sorts. One of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark's relatives described him as a "deeply unhappy man". Andreas parted from his wife soon after his expulsion from Greece and spent the rest of his life with his mistress in Monte Carlo, where

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Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Queen Victoria's great-granddaughter Alice of Battenberg, and their youngest child Philip in 1925

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This is how the solemn requiem for King Louis XVI is held in the churches of France

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Execution of Louis XVI by guillotine on 21 January 1793 and the question of his guilt

On 21 January 1793 the 38-year-old citizen Louis Capet, formerly known as King Louis XVI, was executed by guillotine. To the very end he insisted on his innocence. Yet by almost any reasonable standard he was, in all likelihood, guilty of treason after all, though he did not

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Prince Nikolai of Denmark takes part in the Rains show at Paris Fashion Week

Prince Nikolai of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, 22, grandson of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and son of Prince Joachim and Alexandra, at Paris Fashion Week. This season Prince Nikolai took part in the show of the unisex Fall/Winter 2022-2023 collection by Rains, the conceptual neo-Scandinavian outerwear

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Rubens's painting of the transfer of the regency to Marie de' Medici in 1610

Louis XIII is nine years old in this painting and exactly half the height of his parents, but how elegantly the boy is dressed! The painting by Peter Paul Rubens is entitled "The Preparation of the King for the War in Germany, or the Transfer of the Regency to

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Odalisque by François Boucher, 1745, the Louvre

Odalisque by François Boucher, 1745, the Louvre. This is what the mistresses of Louis XV looked like

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Charles V of Habsburg, When the Neighbours Ask Who It Is That Keeps Barking Over There

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Peter I Tries to Plant European Ways in God-Guarded Little Mother Russia

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The Queen's Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, home to works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Claude (Gellée) and Van Dyck, will show canvases by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the few women artists of her time to win renown

The Queen's Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, home to works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Claude (Gellée) and Van Dyck, will show canvases by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the few women artists of her time to win renown. The Italian painter enjoyed the patronage of Charles I,

Sixteenth-century handwritten letter in brown ink on aged paper, written in an italic script and signed Elizabeth at the bottom.

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Two letters in Elizabeth I's own hand and how her handwriting changed over ten years

Two letters written in the hand of Queen Elizabeth I of England. We shall not discuss their contents; the question is how this young lady's handwriting changed in just 10 years, growing airier with age, but less legible. My own handwriting is also forever changing, but, unlike Elizabeth&

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Happy, cheerful, playful: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor set us all a fine example that life should be taken more lightly, and all the more so as Slava Polunin's show is about to return to Moscow