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In April 1895 Oscar Wilde failed to win his case against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his close friend and lover Douglas. The Marquess demanded an end to the affair between Oscar Fingal and his son and accused the writer of sodomy, or, to be precise, sent a
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England has mislaid its "Russian" princess, Alexandra of Kent. The 84-year-old Alexandra is the younger sister of the head of English Freemasonry, Edward, Duke of Kent, and the elder sister of the scandal-prone Michael of Kent; as the daughter of the fourth son of King
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On 11 April Netflix will show Princess Diana's scandalous and notorious BBC interview of 20 November 1995, watched by 23 million people. It was spoken of as "the interview that shook the world". Twenty-six years have passed, and it is still not entirely clear why
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Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, The Death of Marshal Lannes, Duke of Montebello. We see Napoleon holding Lannes and pressing him to his chest. Tarle writes that Napoleon wept for the second and last time in his life when the dying Marshal Lannes lay in his arms: one of his closest friends
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You may be surprised, but France has a king even today. Although the title is disputed, most legitimists and monarchists regard the titular Duke of Anjou, a direct heir of Louis XIV and a member of the Spanish royal family, Luis Alfonso de Borbón, as the titular King of France.
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Monarchist sentiment in France remains strong to this day, and the view of Louis XVII as an innocent victim has taken hold of many minds. Thus there is well-founded talk that a monument ought to be raised to Louis-Charles, Louis XVII, dedicated also to all infant and child
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Louis-Charles of France, second son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, was confined in a dungeon and for several years subjected to torture. After the execution of his parents he was regarded as King of France, Louis XVII. A remarkable child, filled with courage, dignity and intelligence, he lived
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Pope Francis at the Palm Sunday service. From tomorrow Holy Week begins for Catholics. This is already the second Easter under lockdown. For the Orthodox, Palm Sunday falls this year on 25 April
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Mary of Teck, widow of King George V, died just 10 weeks before the coronation of her granddaughter Elizabeth. On her deathbed she insisted that the coronation not be postponed on account of mourning for her. But Elizabeth's accession itself had taken place in Queen Mary's
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