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The Prussian eagle pecks at the liver of Karl Marx, chained to a printing press like Prometheus to his rock. The caricature was timed to coincide with the closure in 1843 of the Cologne Rheinische Zeitung, edited by Marx
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It is forbidden to write: of the bureaucrat, Of the officers, of the soldier, Of the strike, of the movement, Of the clergy, of the ferment, Of the peasant, of the ministry, Of the execution, of the Cossacks' brutality, Of the police, of arrests, Of robberies, of manifestos! But
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An excellent infographic describing the standards, flags and banners displayed at the coronation of Elizabeth II. The English Tatler
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A Times columnist has criticised the ever-whining Meghan Markle, forever bemoaning persecution over the colour of her skin, and the black activist who caused the royal family to dismiss an 83-year-old maid of honour and made her repent before the whole world of a transgression she never
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In 1992 the Daily Mail published police-made photofits of how Princes William and Harry might look in their early thirties. William, for some reason, is the spitting image of Boris Johnson, while Harry is a bleached Ellen DeGeneres
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At the weekend in Edinburgh a woman was arrested for holding a placard that read: "Fuck imperialism, abolish the monarchy". In Oxford a man was arrested for walking out of a church during the proclamation of King Charles III and shouting: "Who elected him?" The police
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The other day I wrote about the piece in Elle on Elizabeth's childhood. The articles by the royal family's former governess appeared in various publications in Europe and the United States and astonished the public. The Windsors were astonished too, having given no permission for the
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Marion relates how she came to meet the Duke and Duchess of York, son and daughter-in-law of King George VI, quite by chance, at the home of one of her pupils in Scotland; two weeks later the Yorks offered her the post of governess to their daughters, aged
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As it turned out, the museum's holdings contained not a single exhibit relating to Pilts, who held the governor's post in 1916-1917. And so my contribution to the museum's collection became the first authentic object connected with the life of Alexander Pilts, Actual
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Tatler has published photographs of Princess Diana from her last summer holiday aboard the 64-metre yacht Jonikal, built at the Italian yard Codecasa in 1990 and owned by the Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed. On board this luxurious vessel Diana was spotted in the Mediterranean in 1997 with the