A new exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace will reveal life in the 18th century through fashion. Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians will have over 200 works from the Royal Collection, such as paintings, prints and drawings and surviving examples of clothing and accessories – from the practical dress of servants to [read more]
“On the 18th of January 1815, the commissioners appointed by the king (Louis XVIII) to search for the sacred remains of their late majesties Louis XVI and the Queen Marie Antoinette, arrived, at eight o’clock in the morning, at the ancient cemetery of the Madeleine on the rue d’Anjou” Following King Louis XVI’s execution on [read more]
Blood, Sex & Royalty is the latest Netflix documentary on the Tudors. The three episodes focus on Anne Boleyn’s rise to become King Henry VIII’s Queen. It stars Amy James-Kelly as Anne Boleyn and Max Parker as King Henry VIII. The experts in the series are, amongst others, Suzannah Lipscomb, Lauren Mackay, Tracy Borman and [read more]
*contains affiliate links* Princess Mary, later Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, was born in 1897 as the third child of the then Duke and Duchess of York, later King George V and Queen Mary. She was born during the reign of her great-grandmother Queen Victoria and subsequently lived in six reigns – that of [read more]
The City of London necklace has “56 graduated bars, set with a variety of brilliant-cut, cushion-cut and pear-shaped stones, divided by narrow graduated brilliant-set spikes.” The necklace is very similar in design to Queen Mary’s Fringe Tiara. It was a wedding present to the then Princess Elizabeth in 1947 from the Lord Mayor of London, [read more]
Princess Yongning is one of the most pitiful and tragic princesses of the Ming dynasty. She was the daughter of Emperor Muzong of the Ming Dynasty (also known as the Longqing Emperor) and was the younger sister of Emperor Shenzong (also known as the Wanli Emperor). Due to corruption in the palace, Princess Yongning entered [read more]
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