#duchess of fife

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

STUNNING picture of Louise Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife, daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra (née Princess of Denmark), 1880s - 1890s🤍

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, Princess Arthur of Connaught, 1937-38.

[tiaramania]

* Coronation Tiaras *

Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, wore the Fife Diamond Tiara for the coronation of King George VI of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey on 12 May 1937.

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

– 𝑨 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒂, 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔, 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒏, 𝟏𝟖𝟔𝟕. 💐🤍

[empress-alexandra]

Four generations: Queen Louise of Denmark (born Princess of Hesse-Kassel) with her eldest daughter Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (consort of King Edward VII, at the time of taking the picture she was the Princess of Wales) and Alexandra’s eldest daughter Princess Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife. Queen Louise is holding Princess Louise’s eldest daughter Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, 1893.

Additional color versions are available on my instagram.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife

British vintage postcard

[gogmstuff]

More from 1911 -

1911 Euphimia Nosova by Konstantin Somov (State Tretyakov Gallery - Moskva, Russia). From Wikimedia 2075X3293. This is the epitome of Edwardian dress.

Queen Alexandra's daughters

Left 1911 Duchess of Fife, Princesses Alexandra and Maude. From the lost gallery's photostream on flickr 5384X3684 @800 4.1Mj.

Right 1911 HH Princess Maud and HRH Princess Royal Louise. From eBay reduced contrast and removed mono-color tint 957X1522.

1911 Evening dress of Queen Alexandra (Fashion Museum - Bath, Somerset, UK). From tumblr.com/fashionsfromthepast 1280X1812.

1911 Geneviève Vix, a singer by Jean Coraboeuf (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes - Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France). From history-of-fashion.tumblr.com/image/177126241755 643X975.

1911 Hélène d'Orléans, duchesse d'Aosta by ?. From tumblr.com/blog/view/jeannepompadour/683841884513288192; fixed a few spots w Pshop 1450X2000.

1911 Frau Luther by Lovis Corinth (Landesmuseum Hannover - Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany). From cutlermiles.com/portrait-of-frau-luther-lovis-corinth/ 966X1280.

1911 Lady in Lavender by Lawton S. Parker (private collection). From the discontinued Athenaeum Web site 716X955.

Left Maria Josefa of Austria with Karl. Posted to Foro Dinastias by Katyusha on 25 May 2010 614X800

Right ca. 1911 (based on age of child) Grand Duchess-Mother Anastasia Mikhailovna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin with her grandson Friedrich. From eBay; removed mono-color tint 891X1433.

1911 Dolors Vidal by Ramon Casas (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain). From artsandculture.google.com; fixed obvious flaws w Pashop 1332X2652 @144 4.9Mp.

1911 (1 August issue) Le Theatre Mlle Lantelme. From verbinina.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/le-theatre-303/le-theatre-303-1-aout-1911-vkl/; fixed spots w Pshop 1182X1616

[froppy-butterflyfan2000]

Cappyverse One-Shot: Holiday Special: July 4th: Summer BBQ: Take place on July 4th at Camp Synonymous, where the campers and counsellors enjoy barbecues.

Eliza, Haruko, Hyde, Lucius, Morgan, and Rebecca belong to @aprilbrowines

Damon (mentioned), Ethan, Serpent, Tamara, and Isaac belong to @ej-cappy-universe

Serenity (mentioned) and Sienna (mentioned) belong to @cooltmoney95

Agrippa, Albius, Beppi, Cezanne, Duchess, Eugenia, Hannibal, Hiraya, Holly, Janaya, Leona, Michiko (mentioned), Niko, and Zoey belong to @froppy-butterflyfan2000 (me)

[artistmarchalius]

Cockney Rhyming Slang! ✨

I’ve seen a good amount of rhyming slang from Hobie in fics and I love to see it! I love language and slang; I find the origins and usage of words fascinating, so I thought I’d make a little post about it to offer up some knowledge, tips and suggestions that I hope will be helpful or interesting to both those currently incorporating it in fics, as well as to those who want to use it but might not know where to start. Or even to those who don’t write but want to know!

So here we go!

First, a very brief history!

Cockney rhyming slang originated from the East End of London in the early 19th century. It was originally used by Cockneys so they could speak in front of the police without being understood and was very handy if you had some dodgy dealings going on. It has since passed into common language and is no longer restricted to use by Cockneys.

So you can see why it would make sense for Hobie to know a lot of it if he’s running around rebelling against a corrupt government run by supervillains!

How does it work?

Cockney rhyming slang works by taking a word and using a rhyming phrase of about two to three words to replace it. For example: “Daisy roots” means “boots” and “Ones and twos” means “shoes”.

There can be multiple phrases used for the same word, for example: both “Trouble and strife” and “Duchess of Fife” mean “wife”.

A Cockney rhyming slang tip:

A little shortcut to make your Cockney rhyming slang more authentic to a day to day Brit is to only use the first word in the phrase. For example:

If I wanted to write “Use your head”, I could write “Use your loaf of bread” and that would be accurate, but it would be even more accurate to just say “Use your loaf”.

Another example:

“I haven’t got a clue”, which if you’ve seen Across the Spider-Verse, you would know is “I haven’t got a Scooby Doo”, is commonly shortened to “I haven’t got a Scooby”. This actually threw me off when I saw it in the cinema and I never knew why until I learned about the “first word rule” in an East End documentary the other night 😂

Other examples:

Bread and honey = money. “I don’t have enough bread for that.”

Rabbit and pork = talk. “He don’t half rabbit on”. Chas and Dave wrote a song called Rabbit, which is a bit casually rude towards women as many things from the 80’s can be, but it did give us the line “You’ve got more rabbit than Sainsbury’s“ which I find quite funny.

Butchers hook = look. “Let’s take a butchers at that”

Donkeys ears = years. “I haven’t seen you in donkeys!”

I believe that back in the day, only using the first word of the phrase was an added level of secrecy to keep the police from knowing what you were talking about since it took away the rhyming portion of the phrase which the police might have been able to guess the meaning of. Only those who knew the rest of the phrase would know what the other was talking about. It has since become a more common practice to the point where many people don’t even realise they’re doing it (as I did until recently).

However, it is still perfectly acceptable to use the full phrase. For example, I’ve called someone on the old “dog and bone” (phone) and I’ve heard the stairs be called “apples and pears” but not really just “apples”.

Other examples:

Donkeys ears = years. “I haven’t seen you in donkeys!” as mentioned above. It’s also commonly mistaken for Donkeys Years. “I haven’t seen you in donkeys years”. Although technically it isn’t the full phrase, I’d say this still counts.

Shortening and adaptations:

Over time, some of the phrases have been shortened and adapted to form new slang. For example:

Bottle and stopper = copper (police). I’ve seen a lot of use of bottle and stopper in fanfics and that’s perfectly acceptable. However, the phrase is more commonly shortened to “Bottle” or adapted to “Bluebottle” or “Mr Bluebottle” due to the colour of their uniforms. Also, “bluebottle mob” can be used to mean the police force.

Another example of shortened and adapted Cockney rhyming slang is:

“Pork pies” = lies. More commonly shortened to “Porkies”. E.g. “she’s telling porkies.”

Here are some other slang words that have their origins in Cockney pronunciation:

Wotcher - an informal greeting originating from the Cockney contraction of “what cheer” (basically meaning “hello” or “what’s up?”). E.g. “Wotcher.”

Bruv/Bruvver - brother. Used the same way one would say “bro”. Bruvver is a cockney pronunciation of “brother” which has been shorted to the more commonly used “bruv”. E.g. “Good to see ya, bruv!”

And there you go, some quick knowledge about Cockney rhyming slang! I don’t claim to be an expert on the topic, a true Cockney would know far more than I do, but I thought I’d throw my hat into the ring and share the knowledge I do have in the hopes that it will help or entertain someone.

I’ll make another post going into police specific slang terms since that seems to be something that is intrinsically tied to the Spiderman experience, as well as Hobie’s, even more so as an anarchist arachnid, fascist punching punk rebel.

I might also make another post about general British slang words. Let me know if that’s something you’d be interested in or if there’s a specific area that you’d like to know about!

[royal-mood]

Royal Tiara Challenge 2024 : Favorite all Diamond Tiara 👑

Duchess of Fife’s Diamond Tiara 

[thechanelmuse]

Black American Music Month

• ELIZABETH “LIBBA” COTTEN - She was a maid at 9, wrote a hit song at 11 — and won a Grammy at 93. Not to mention she was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down. This position meant that she would play the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb.

• SISTER ROSETTA THARPE- The “Godmother of Rock & Roll.” She helped shape modern popular music, was one of the few Black female guitarists to ever find commercial success and the first artist to blend gospel with the secular.

• ODETTA HOLMES - Known as “The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement.” In 1963, she sang for the masses on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the March on Washington. Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals.

• PEGGY JONES - Nicknamed “Lady Bo” played rhythm guitar in Bo Diddley's band in the late 1950s and early 1960s, becoming one of the first (perhaps the first) female rock guitarists in a highly visible rock band. Sometimes called the “Queen Mother of Guitar.”

• LIZZIE “MEMPHIS MINNIE” DOUGLAS - Known as the “Queen of the Blues,” was a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Her title stems from her legacy of successfully recording music across four decades as well as being the lone female voice in a male dominated blues scene.

• NORMA JEAN WOFFORD - Nicknamed “The Duchess” by Bo Diddley, she was the second female guitarist in Diddley's backing band.

• ALGIA MAE HINTON - She was widely recognized as a master picker and buckdancer in the Piedmont styles. She would often play her guitar behind her head while buck dancing.

• ETTA BAKER - She was a Piedmont blues/folk guitarist and singer who began playing the guitar at age 3. Taught by her father, long-time Piedmont player Boone Reid, Etta played 6-string and 12-string acoustic guitar, and 5-string banjo. She was a master of the blues guitar style that became popular in the southern piedmont after the turn of the century.

• JESSIE MAE HEMPHILL - A legend of hill country blues guitar. She grew up in a lineage of familial fife-and-drums bands from northern Mississippi, rose to popularity in the mid-1980s and had a fruitful career during which she performed around the globe, traveling mostly on her own. She played in open tunings and, having started as a drummer, had a percussive guitar style that included slapping and banging the instrument. She would also tie a tambourine around her calf, which, together with her strumming-and-drumming guitar work, gave her performance the sound of a one-woman-band.

• BEVERLY “GUITAR” WATKINS - One part soul singer, one part rockin' roadhouse mama, and one part gifted songwriter. She's been chronically under-recorded for a woman with her résumé, performing with the likes of James Brown, Ray Charles and Otis Redding. She didn’t record her first album until she was 60. Her blistering licks on a 1962 red Fender Mustang earned her the well-deserved nickname “Guitar.” She gon’ put on a show:

One more for good measure:

• WILLIE MAE “BIG MAMA” THORNTON - Also referred to as “The Godmother of Rock & Roll.” She was a blues singer, songwriter, self-taught drummer, and harmonica player. She was the first to record "Hound Dog", in 1952, which became her biggest hit, staying seven weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B chart in 1953 and selling almost two million copies. She also helped to shape the sound and style of “Texas-blues,” an evolving blues sub-genre known to incorporate swing and big band elements.

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

~ 🤍 Royal Parallels 🤍 ~

Queen Alexandra giving her daughter Louise Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife, and her granddaughter Lady Alexandra Duff 🤍✨🥹

[mathsandwhiteroses]

Royal Tiara Challenge 2024: Favourite tiara no longer in a royal family

Queen Victoria’s Emerald Tiara

Stunning! Absolutely stunning! It is such a shame that this tiara is no longer within the British Royal Family, instead it is owned by the Duke of Fife who, luckily for every tiara lover, has lent it to Kensington Palace to be put on display. The tiara was inherited by his great-aunt, Princess Alexandra of Connaught, Duchess of Fife, from her great-aunt, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, who had been given the tiara by her mother, Queen Victoria, in 1893. I nearly went to go and see this last year when I was down in London but decided against it and went to the (free) V&A museum instead to see the other tiara designed by Prince Albert on display, the Sapphire Coronet. The tiara was last worn by the Duchess of Fife in 1960 for the State Opening of Parliament.

[joethetoonfanandoutcast]

Offspring Rating List: Disney characters

Now, time for Disney, the leading New World Order company. Keep in mind that this is only half done because there are so many characters (especially male-female pairs) that Disney has, I'll have to re-edit this, adding more.

Mickey/Minnie: yes (why hasn't the company ever given them one)

Donald/Daisy: ???

Goofy/whichever girl: ??? (he's been granted Max already)

Pete/Peg: granted two

Gadget/Zipper: granted 42, I think

Max/Roxanne: ???

Max/Mona: ???

PJ/Beret Girl: ???

Bobby/Stacy: ???

Snow White/Florian: ???

Bambi/Faline: granted two

Thumper/Miss Bunny: granted a few

Flower/Miss Skunk: granted one

Cinderella/Prince Charming: ???

Anastasia/Baker: ???

Jaq/Mary: ???

Lady/Tramp: granted four

Scamp/Angel: ???

Ruby/Buster: ???

Jim Dear/Darling: granted one

Aurora/Phillip: ???

Pongo/Perdita: granted 15 (though adopted 84 more)

Roger/Anita: ???

Baloo/Rebecca: Beckers has Molly but I'm not sure about further

Kit/Molly: ???

Hathi/Winifred: granted one

Thomas/Duchess: three plus how many kittens originally planned for a follow-up

Robin/Marian: yes; either six or a dozen

Father Saxton/Little Sister: ???

Bernard/Bianca: ???

Tod/Vixey: yes (six should be just fine, at least that's what Vixey thinks)

Taran/Eilonwy: ???

Basil/Miss Kitty: maybe

Dodger/Rita: yes

Tito/Georgette: ???

Ariel/Eric: granted one

Belle/Adam: ???

Lumiere/Fifi: ???

Cogsworth/Wardrobe: ???

Angelique/Fife: ???

Aladdin/Jasmine: ???

Iago/Thundra: ???

Simba/Nala: granted three

Timon/Tatiana: ???

Pocahontas/John Rolfe: ???

Nakoma/her husband: ???

Nakoma/Thomas (in some sequel-less AU): ???

Centipede/Miss Spider: ???

Earthworm/Glowworm: ???

Quasimodo/Madelleine: ???

Phoebus/Esmeralda: granted one

Hercules/Meg: ???

Mulan/Li Shang: ???

Yao/Mei: ???

Ling/Ting-Ting: ???

Chien-Po/Su: ???

Flik/Atta: ???

Rosie/Slim (if they became one): ???

Tarzan/Jane: ???

Aladar/Neera: most likely

Kuzco/Malina: ???

Kronk/Miss Birdwell: maybe

Milo/Kida: yes

Mike/Celia: yes

Tylor/Val: ??? (if they want to be more than friends)

Nani/David: maybe

Stitch/Angel: ??? (I don't know if they should, considering they were both created by Jumbaa)

Dr. Doppler/Captain Amelia: granted four

Kenai/Nita: yes

Rutt/Anda: yes

Tuke/Kata: yes

Maggie/Bob: no

Grace/Barry: no

Mrs. Calloway/Junior: no

Lucius/Honey: ???

Violet/Tony: ???

Chicken Little/Abby: maybe

Runt/Foxy Loxy: no

Linguini/Colette: ???

Edward/Nancy: ???

John/Mary: ???

Bolt/Mittens: no (I'd rather it was in a human-free anthropomorphic world)

Tiana/Naveen: maybe

Charlotte/Travis: maybe

Rapunzel/Eugene: maybe

Felix/Calhoun: maybe

Anna/Kristoff: ???

Hiro/Gogo: ???

Riley/Jordan: no (I'm not sure if any thing between them would last)

Judy/Nick: ???

Flash/Priscilla: ???

Luca/Giulia: ???

Mariano/Dolores: ???

Meilin/Carter: no

Meilin/Tyler: no

Wade/Ember: yes

Clod/his girlfriend: ???

Gale/Fern: ???

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

~ ROYALS AND THEIR SIGNATURES ~

Part 1/?

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Queen Alexandra(Alexandra of Denmark)

Princess Beatrice of Battenberg

Princess Victoria of Wales

Queen Victoria

King Edward VII

Louise, Princess Royal & Duchess of Fife

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna(Alix of Hesse)

Tsar Nicholas II

Queen Maud of Norway(Maud of Wales)

[royal-confessions]

“I think Louise, Princess Royal, later Duchess of Fife was the most beautiful daughter of Edward and Alexandra. It's quite unfair that none of their daughters were considered particularly beautiful back in their day - in my mind Louise was stunning, on par with other royal beauties like Princess Elisabeth of Hesse.” - Submitted by Anonymous