This tiara goes by several names, but it has been the star of two Crown Princely weddings in Japan. The first to wear it was Michiko Shōda when she married Crown Prince Akihito on 10 April 1959. She wore a matching necklace with the tiara. Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Several decades [read more]
Read part one here. Since turning 16, Mathilde had joined the very exclusive Cercle, a so-called “love society”, frequented by French and Spanish aristocracy. All of their correspondence was in code to prevent anything from leaking. Mathilde once performed acrobatics on a trapeze while they were naked. The Cercle was also very well known for [read more]
Mathilde de Morny was born on 26 May 1863 as the fourth and final child of Charles de Morny, Duke of Morny and Sofia Sergeyevna Trubetskaya. Their father, Charles, was the illegitimate son of Hortense de Beauharnais and Charles Joseph, Comte de Flahaut, making him a half-brother of Emperor Napoleon III. Their mother, Sofia, was [read more]
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A new photo of the Princess Royal has been released to mark her upcoming 75th birthday. The Princess is joined by her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, in the image taken by Chris Jackson of Getty Images at Windsor Castle. The royals are pictured ahead of the State Banquet hosted by King Charles at [read more]
Read part two here. Frederica’s support returned when she showed an interest in Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; she agreed he was the best of all the princes who had come to court Charlotte. However, she told Charlotte, “I beg as a favour you will never let it be known you mentioned it to me, for [read more]
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