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Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain wearing her Cartier Tiara (1920) and  a demi-parure of diamonds and emeralds inherited from her godmother, Empress Eugénie of France. Photographed by Nina Leen, 1956.

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Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine (1843-78) ~ Portrait of the Artist, 1864 (Oil on millboard)

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Reference drawing of Juana I of Castile for the Tomb of Maximillian I by Jörg Kölderer (1522)

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Princesses Victoria and Maud of Wales by Josefine Swoboda.

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1855 Franz Xaver Winterhalter - Queen Victoria

(Royal Collection Trust)

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Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, 1887.

'She had besides a special talent for wearing her clothes, in a way quite her own. Of course everything suited her, for she was tall, slim and incredibly graceful, and no blush rose could have competed with her complexion. There was also something of a lily about her; her purity was absolute ; one could never take one’s eyes off her, and when parting from her in the evening one longed for the hour when one would behold her again next day.' Queen Marie of Romania

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Princess Alice with her sister Victoria, Crown Princess of Prussia, Berlin, 1865.

Alice to Queen Victoria, Berlin, January 29, 1865 | The journey went off very well, and we are so happy to be here. Vicky and Fritz are kindness itself, and Vicky so dear, so loving! I feel it does me good, that there is a reflection of Papa's great mind in her. He loved her so much, and was so proud of her.

Alice to Queen Victoria, Berlin, February 4, 1865 | I have not been sight-seeing anywhere, as it is too cold for that. We drive in a shut carriage, and then walk in the Thiergarten. We spend the whole day together, which is a great enjoyment to me, and of an evening we go out together. It is pleasant to have a sister to go out with, and all the people are so kind and civil to us.

Alice to Queen Victoria, Berlin, February 14, 1965 | We leave next Saturday. I shall be so sorry to leave dear Vicky, for she is often so much alone. Fritz is really so excellent, it is a pleasure to look at his dear good face; and he is worked so hard - no health can stand it in the long run.

Alice to Queen Victoria, Berlin, 17 February 1865 | This will be my last letter from here, and I only regret leaving here on account of parting with dear Vicky and Fritz, whom we see so rarely, and usually but for a short time. I have spent such pleasant hours with dear Vicky: that is what I shall look back to with so much pleasure and satisfaction.

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The Fleur-de-Lys Tiara, by Ansorena (1906).

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The older pair - Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanov 1912.

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Royal Tiara Challenge 2024: {27/31} -> Favourite Tiara no Longer in a Royal Family: The Tsarina Maria Feodorovna's Pearl Drop Tiara.

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British Royal Family - The Prince and Princess of Wales playing with their baby boy, Prince William of Wales in a sitting room at Kensington Palace | 1982

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A visitor to Sandringham in 1928 describes the future Queen Elizabeth II, then aged 1 year and 9 months:

"She perched on a little chair between the King and me, and the King gave her biscuits to eat and to feed his little dog with, the King chortling with little jokes with her - she just struggling with a few words, 'Grandpa' and 'Granny' and to everyone's amusement has just achieved addressing the very grand-looking Countess of Airlie as 'Airlie'. After a game of bricks on the floor with the young equerry Lord Claud Hamilton, she was fetched by her nurse, and made a perfectly sweet little curtsey to the King and Queen and then to the company as she departed"

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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother with Prince Charles and Princess Anne by Cecil Beaton, Coronation Day, 1953

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"Queen Mary took a big interest in the upbringing of her granddaughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. Their own parents thought it unnecessary for them to have a strong educational regime, so Mary felt it was up to her to educate the young princesses by taking them to art galleries and museums"

Today is Queen Mary' 71th death anniversary. She passed away on march 24, 1953 at the age of 85, in Marlborough House, London (same house where George V was born)

Rest in peace Queen Mary with all your loved ones 🌹

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George and Mary in 1898 ❤️

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FAVORITE OTMA PHOTOS: ANASTASIA It was the first time I had seen any of the four. The two older ones were in simple white, each with a single string of small pearls, and with their heavy dark hair hanging over their shoulders looked very girlish and sweet. Olga carried a little bunch of violets, and Marie and the ten-year-old Anastasia had boxes of silver-wrapped chocolates. Anastasia sat down nearest me and gave me a demure little smile as she set the chocolates on the railing between us. She was not a beautiful child, but there was something frank and winning about her. Music behind the curtain was playing in a very low key, and she began to hum the air softly to herself. It was a haunting air, with a minor strain suggestive of the Volga Boat Song. "What is that song you are humming?" I asked. "Oh," she said, "it is an old song about a little girl who had lost her doll." The music faded out then, the people were crowding in from the foyer, and she was biting into another chocolate. Her white gloves were now quite hopeless, but when I went to sleep that night her song was humming away tantalizingly in my head. "The little girl who had lost her doll." That was more than forty years ago. - Post Wheeler, Dome of Many-Coloured Glass (1955)

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Portrait of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna by Adolf Karlovich Müller-Norden . 1896.

Before the 1917 Revolution, the portrait hung in the Tsar’s Reception Room in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo. Fortunately, after decades of being part of the Pavlovsk Museum collection, it has now returned to its original place.