NB! · Archive · London · Monarchies

The future King Charles III and Princess Anne chat as they sit in their prams in the garden of Clarence House in 1951

Old engraving of a stone balustrade before a windowed facade, with a draped urn, a halberd and a pike bearing a severed curly-haired head.

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Engraving detail: balustrade with a halberd and a head on a pike

NB! · Books · London · Monarchies · Society Pages

Camilla, Queen Consort of England, presented the 2022 Booker Prize to Shehan Karunatilaka, a 47-year-old Sri Lankan writer living in Singapore, for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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.

NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Observations · Rome

Ancient Sculptures from the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica on Display at Rome's Fiumicino Airport

Ancient sculptures from the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica have gone on display at Rome's Fiumicino Airport. A capital idea for a museum partnership!

NB! · Archive · The East · Geography · People

The American traveller, explorer and photographer Harriet Chalmers Adams in the Gobi Desert

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Queen Camilla photographed with the Paddington bears left at the railings of Buckingham Palace in tribute to Elizabeth II

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

NB! · Monarchies · Paris · People

Marie Antoinette was executed on 16 October 1793 at the age of 37

Aerial view of the ruins of a Roman amphitheatre with a grass-covered arena, surrounded by city apartment buildings.

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Two ancient Roman amphitheatres of Aquincum survive in Budapest

Two ancient Roman amphitheatres survive in modern Budapest: the Civil and Military Amphitheatres at Aquincum. The first could hold up to 6,000 spectators, the second 12,000.

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The mass-produced portrait of Princess Victoria, the future Queen Victoria, aged 4, even bears a facsimile of the princess's childish signature, VICTORIA

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Good night to all, and a happy Friday in advance

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I adore the comments on my TikTok

A cartoon boy with a large head and a red top lies under a blue blanket, frowning at a book. An orange teddy bear lies beside him, and a lamp glows above the bed.

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