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krasivaa · 2 months
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Queen Marie of Yugoslavia with her sons, Crown Prince Peter and new born Prince Tomislav in 1928. 💝🇷🇸
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tiaramania · 2 years
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Do you know anything about this tiara which Princess Olga wore when she married Prince Paul of Yugoslavia?
Sort of, the picture is from a 1925 photo shoot of Princess Olga wearing court dress not from her wedding which was two years prior and it’s the only occasion I’ve found of her wearing it. This tiara has bugged me for quite a while but I’ve never found a clear answer for it.
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The closest tiara is one ordered by Philip Sassoon from Cartier in 1914 but they are not exactly the same. Olga’s has pearls along the top and scattered throughout the tiara. The Sassoon tiara still exists and is sometimes loaned to exhibitions but as far as I know does not belong to the Sassoon family anymore. I considered that they are the same tiara with the pearls removed but there doesn’t seem to be any marks on the tiara showing where the pearls used to be and the vine goes closer to the bottom of the tiara on the Sassoon one.
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Henri Picq made at least five blackened steel tiaras for Cartier in 1913 and 1914. Only three of them are known so my best guess is that Princess Olga’s tiara is one of the others.
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romanovsonelastdance · 9 months
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Princess Elena Petrovna, nee of Serbia, as a nurse.
I don't read much German, but they have mistakenly called her a Grand Duchess rather than a princess. This was a fairly common mistake with junior members of the family; it seemed many people just assumed all the royals were grand dukes or duchesses. In their defense, the 'prince/ss of the blood' distinction was still fairly new.
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the-lost-lamb · 2 years
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Marija Karadjordjevic, Queen of Yugoslavia, driving a car, 1920s
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royal-hair · 11 months
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Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia at the Coronation Reception for overseas heads of state and government at Buckingham Palace, UK - 05.05.23
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✵ October 24, 2016 ✵
Ljubica Ljubisavljevic & Prince Mihailo of Serbia
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zlatnoruno · 10 months
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Краљица Марија на насловној страни часописа „Жена и свет“ из фебруара 1928.
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mypepemateosus · 19 days
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sibirsibir · 1 month
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Scythian Gold Double Dragon Torc Necklace from Central Asia (200 BC). "After extending their country Scythia into more western lands beyond the Black Sea, many Scythians migrated into Europe and the Middle Eastern lands as far as Egypt while leaving new Dragon Families and Courts in their wake. The various tribes of Scythians included the Royal Scythians as well as the Ossetians, Pashtuns, Sarmatians, Kazakhs and Yakuts. Once in Europe, these Scythian tribes spread over much of their new continent, eventually separating into the Hungarians, Romanians, the Serbians, the Croatians of the south, as well as the Germans, Picts and Gaels of the north." From Mark Amaru Pinkham's "An Initiates Guide to the Path of the Dragon
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andramoreaux · 7 months
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Additional if unrelated concepts incoming, I'll try and seperate these by court so you can answer bit by bit;
What do you think politics in Prythian were eloke just after Rhys and Tamlins ascension? What were the consequences to the Spring Court politics? What do you think the politics of the Spring Court would end up resembling if ACOMAF didn't happen and Feyre stayed in the Spring Court?
This took me ages for some reason (sorry)
What do you think politics in Prythian were eloke just after Rhys and Tamlins ascension? What were the consequences to the Spring Court politics?
I searched all the regicides on Wikipedia (I know it's not the best source, but I am trying to find a list and Wikipedia has, for now, the biggest list of regicide) and there are so few examples of kings killing other kings and their families? It simply wasn't done. I can give you kings or queens assassinated by their mothers, brothers, sisters, half-brothers, half-sisters, cousins, wives, angry mobs, their own bodyguards, by their fifth wife, by nephews, by conquerors but what Ricesand and Tamlin's father did simply wasn't done.
You don't go into an enemy kingdom, kill the king's wife and daughter. Firstly, you'd have to be a complete idiot to do that. Because 1: you killed his wife, he's still here, he still has an heir, he can still have more children. And secondly: he knows you did it, so be prepared to deal with the consequences. Like, what was even the purpose of this assassination? What? It doesn't even make sense, you achieved nothing beside give the other ruler a reason to go to war with you.
It's simply a bad plan. You want to do something like that: hire someone who can't he traced back to you. Kill the king and his children. Don't go around showing your hate for that ruler. If it can be believed that you barely had anything to do with that ruler, the better. Poison them with something that shows symptoms that can be considered a disease. A hunting incident. A suicide. Hide his guards, find an angry enough mob, sell them some lies, let them go and kill them. Do all this through someone else, not you yourself, make sure it can't be traced back to you. Make it legal: if you have someone and they can challenge the other ruler to a fight, do it. Make it seem that they committed some crimes someone else can judge them for and sentence them to death. Your main goal is not to be caught. Think before you act.
And so the HL of Spring killing the wife and daughter of the HL of Night is simply stupidity. And plotwhole. Where's the motive? Even bad guys have motives. It's simply stupid, they didn't try to hide it, didn't try to seem innocent, didn't try to protect themselves. Is as if they wanted to give NC a reason to start a war.
So what would normally happen in a situation like this? War. Or at least some executions.
This is shit that starts World Wars. All it took was one Serbian student to assassinate an Austrian Archduke to lead to a series of events that led to the start of WW1. Now imagine if Franz wasn't killed by a Serbian student, but Serbain nobility or any nobility for the matter.
Here's the thing: royals, nobles, men and women with influence and power do not, and I repeat, do not go around publicly killing each other. They hire people, they subtly poison people, they offer their deepest condolences after the deed in done and they never ever posses any evidence of the murder, they might even kill the assasin and everyone who knew of the plot. They do their best to move suspicions from themselves, they would be willing to throw an innocent person, someone who maybe knew, maybe even the assasin, in the lion's mouth if it will help them. And that's with personal matters. Internal politics, things that happen in one kingdom. That's the shit happening in one country. It's all about rivalry, internal intrigues, bloodfeauds, all in the courty.
When things are about external politics and conquest? They start wars. They might very well try to assassinate someone. That's the quickest way to end a war: cut the viper's head. Kill the king and his children (I'm saying king because usually, kings were ruling, not nearly enough queens). The enemy country falls in disorder, end some military and political figures like generals, the regent that is installed, whoever could be regent, people power and capable enough to take control and you have a country for the taking with a big and organised enough army. But again: that's done in secrecy. Sure, it's a secret most people know, some will be able to tie the deeds back to the actual person behind, but they won't be able to prove it. Why? Because no one goes around announcing: I killed X, king of X country and his wife and children.
So first of all: What was the motive? Why? Did Tamlin's father just feel like it? That's bad politics. That's stupidly.
Second of all: Does Prythain have High Lord meetings? Do they do that regularly? If yes, can a High Lord Council rule over such matters as this? Assassinating someone close to leadership, the family of a head of state, is no mere thing. It is something of great importance. It is something that should be delt with.
So if Prythain has High Lord meetings, can they judge over something like this? Because like... if it was an NC citizen or even a common born assasin, then the NC would probably have jurisdiction. Maybe the Court the assassin came from could try to at least have a hand in the whole thing, but they also might forsake the assasin to take the fall.
But this is a High Lord. Can he be stripped of his titles and judges as a common citizen? Does the NC even have sufficient power to decide his fate? Or does it take the entirety of Prythain to decide?
We know revenge was taken by Rhysand's father and him killing off the High Lord of Spring, his mate, and two eldest sons. But this isn't exactly justice. Sure, Rhysand's father died during this, but the HL of Spring did only murder the HL of Night's mate and daughter, he didn't murder the HL or his heir. Sure, they're still family and all, but politically speaking, Tamlin could have pointed out this and started a war over this, a HL and his heir were killed, not a HL's mate and his daughter. It's semantics, but had someone else been in Tamlin's place and desire some sort of revenge for the murder of his father and brother (let's say we say one of the brothers made up from the daughter and a mate for a mate) he could have pointed that out. Sure, the Spring Court started, but the NC also took more lives and, politically speaking, more important lives. Let's say we put an HL for an HL, but we still have one son who was killed.
Not to say that Rhysand and his father weren't entitled to revenge. But they didn't think of the ramifications of that revenge.
In any normal circumstances, this would have started a war.
And how are wars between countries that don't border each other fought? Very hardly.
Usually, there was some territory involved. Take a pretty recent example: In 2008, when Georgian forces tried to pacify a region, South Ossetia, that was very pro Russian, the Russians attacked Georgia through South Ossetia. That's where the war was fought.
Or on sea so they could fight a war on sea, although I don't imagine any Court too happy to have war at their shores.
But what do we have here? High Lords killing each other's wives and children.
Even if a war did start, how could it be fought? On the sea? I doubt any High Lord would have allowed the armies of either Spring or Night to cross the entirety of Prythain to fight each other. That's also bad politics and stupidity, allowing foreign armies in your country.
So let's pretend the debt between courts was paid, everything's fine on international level.
What would the internal situation in Spring Court be? They just got a new HL who had absolutely nothing to do with ruling but who was liked by the people. I have the impression that Tamlin was well liked. Don't ask me why, though.
So obviously, Tamlin would have to get used, obviously, some would try to manipulate Tamlin, obviously everyone's eyes would be on him. The type of thing that makes you wanna hide somewhere and never return.
Now there's the problem how do other courts view Tamlin considering what his father did? Do they fear another assassination? I don't think so, they seemed pretty chill at the HL meeting, but who knows? Many things change in a few centuries.
Relations between NC and SC, though? Clearly disastrous. But also, they don't really have any reason to have any close ties. The closest of ties between countries are those who share something: borders (Russia and Belarus, Romania and Serbia), former borders (Hungary and Poland), maybe a language (like how Spain, Italy, France, Portugal and Romania share the Latin language as a basis for their own or how the Slavic countries share pretty similar languages), maybe cultural influences. But two countries on completely different sides of the continent? It's like expecting Poland and Lebanon, to say, for example, to have close ties.
I honestly don't think there were so many consequences for either court. This whole thing doesn't make that much sense, and it's very stupid how it was executed if you ask me.
What do you think the politics of the Spring Court would end up resembling if ACOMAF didn't happen and Feyre stayed in the Spring Court?
I actually had to check which book Acomaf is because I always mix Acomaf and Acowar
So first of all, having the Savior of Prythain as Lady of Spring is something. We can assume the Spring Court would have some prestige to gain from Feyre being the Savior of Prythain, and I'm not talking about the HLs. Maybe Tarquin and Kallias would care, but Beron wouldn't not care at all and as these three are, supposedly, SC's closest allies (as seasonal courts), they matter. The other three? Not so much. But what I'm talking about is on a more religious aspect. We know very little of the role of Priestesses in Prythain; do HLs have them as counselors (as so many rulers had preists as their counselors), do they have any political power in Prythain? Maybe. Maybe not.
But if they do... SC has an advantage. Why? Because Feyre is basically a religious icon at this moment, she was made, she saved Prythain, she's almost treated as a Saint. So if the Priestesses have power, that means Feyre can, in a way, bribe them, to say so, if you get what I'm saying. They want to know Feyre because she's basically a Saint, and to know Feyre, they have to please her on a certain level. So they'd be inclined to take Feyre's side in a conflict were they needed, they would advise their HLs against attacking or supporting any aggressions towards the Spring Court.
And now you might wonder how that would help. Think about how Henry VIII had to separate the English Church from the Catholic Church to divorce Catherine of Aragon. The Pope didn't refuse to give Henry his divorce because he felt like it, the Pope was in the pocket of Catherine's nephew, the Holy Roman Emperor. And obviously, Spain or the Holy Roman Empire wanted Catherine as Henry's queen and her daughter, Mary as the future queen of England, especially as Mary and Charles were cousins (although they had been engaged at some point, Charles was a Hasburg, poor Juana married into that family) so obviously they wanted family to rule England. And obviously, Henry would have gotten his divorce quicker, were it not for the Pope being paid by Charles.
So we know that having a religious figure in your court (or pocket) is very useful. Now, how could it go?
Well, imagining that there would be a war with Hybern, we can assume the Spring Court will not be as vulnerable as it was. I still think the politics wouldn't be that different (as there really aren't that many politics in Acotar, honestly), so that's kinda it for this question.
I already said, if the temple had any political power in Prythain then, Feyre being the Lady of Spring would have been very useful for Spring politically but as we don't know what type of power they hold, if they even have any power, it's kinda hard to imagine.
Sure, there might be some internal conflicts, some might not be happy about the High Lord marrying someone who was human just months ago, but Feyre is the Savior of Prythain so I don't imagine many wouldn't be happy. And we don't know enough about the internal politics of Spring to know what would happen. Truth be told, it could be everything from people being mean because of Feyre's former human nature to a full-on civil war. But I do doubt the last would actually happen as Spring does not seem to be the type where every noble has his own army.
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royal-confessions · 11 months
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“I admire Sebastian Arcelus, actor of the TV series "House of Cards", he descends from Russian and Serbian royal families and doesn't brag about it. His grandmother was Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, great-granddaughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich (great-grandfather of the late Prince Philip of the United Kingdom)” - Text & Image Submitted by cenacevedo15
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zingaplanet · 1 year
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What are your thoughts on Rafole? I fell down a rabbit hole on everything regarding them and their relationship and it’s very interesting how they went from being quite close to not…
My darling I love u but I'm trying to stay djoko-free and drama-free so I'm rlly not the best person to ask this hahahaha. Either way I don't think I'm qualified to speak about their relationship simply because I don't know much about it? I'll give my best perception but honestly take it with a kilo of salt lol. I seem to remember there was a falling out over Djokovic's father at some point (or was that with Federer?)
All I know is Novak's relationship with Rafa wasn't the only one that kinda suffered this fate. I don't think Novak was ever close with Roger to begin with, but pretty sure him and Murray used to be quite good mates (they were kinda childhood friends on the tour and played doubles) but that kinda fizzled out in the end. Nadal, Djokovic, Murray were kind of a strange teenager friend group at some point, simply I assume cause they're basically just from the same generation on the tour (they played together since juniors as well) and used to play video games n football together i think.
A bit strange cause I don't think Rafa and Andy's friendship ever really got strained. But then again it's completely understandable within an environment as competitive as them (considering the Nadal-Djokovic rivalry is much more competitive and tbf to Andy maybe, I too would find it difficult to be besties with somebody who beat me 6 times in an AO final 😭).
Don't think there's any point in guessing round the dynamics of the men's tour's locker room throughout the years. It definitely is fascinating, tennis is prob the only sport where you have to share locker rooms with your rivals every day of the year, something here and there are bound to happen, I guess. I bet you there are a shiton of gossips more scandalous than the royal family there throughout the 2000s but I also guess that there's a kind of unspoken code of conduct that you shouldn't ever talk about it? Which is why even the retired players never really did (look at A-Rod he's the biggest gossiper there is even he never said anyth about shits going down in the locker room lol).
Whether it was simply them growing up, having families, becoming more serious in their careers and hence more competitive with each other then grew apart or was there an actual internal friction/conflict I don't really know. Not that we'd ever know for sure I think, they'll prob never ever disclose it for PR reasons (maybe when they're retired). For me, Djokovic seems like quite a lone wolf on tour (?) which is quite sad, but maybe that's the way he prefers to stay competitive. He generally seems to have a kind of joker persona that's either well-liked or a bit divisive n he seems close with his Serbian countrymen although never really to the level of friendship with any specific one of them like Nadal did with Marc Lopez or Federer did with Wawrinka. This is all just my perception of course n could be 1000% wrong.
Anyhow, as the two remaining of the big 3 and looking at the way they interact (in laver cup and in charity matches in the AO for instance) i think it's obv that their relationship has grown into one of massive respect for one another, there's still a hint of kind of an old banter there sometimes (look at when they partnered up for the AO relief last year), but it doesn't seem like they have much of a personal relationship nowadays beyond that of respectful, competitive rivals who drove each other at the last leg of their careers.
Rafa and Andy are different tho, quite evident in the way Rafa invited him to his insta live and them interacting by challenging each other to play playstation afterwards. Even in Novak and Andy's insta live, I seem to remember there was a section where Novak said he was actually really glad to be able to do this instalive with him cause they "never had the chance to talk about this kind of things (personal stuffs) before" seemingly kinda hinting that they've been cordial and friendly these days but they never really ✨️ held each other's hands✨️ if u know what i mean lol.
Ok i could do a full on analysis of their interactions or instalives but this will take me 5 lifetimes lol. All in all, I just wanna be honest that I don't, emm how do i put this, really get Djokovic? I can't seem to get a read on him as a person, which is quite strange. I read politicians' faces for a living and I feel like you can always tell what someone is like based on their public persona a little bit cause nobody can hide that well without injecting a bit of themselves into their PR front (Federer is like the most PR perfect guy ever but even sometimes he slips up). Djokovic is just... really hard to read? Although ppl see him as the joker etc I always kinda feel that he's a very closed off person, at least with his personal thoughts. I don't really know what's going through his mind when he does certain things sometimes. But hey, each to their own right?
Again anon, you have alas triggered again this aimless rambling of mine, but there you go, one must eat the fruit that they've picked, (What even is this saying lol, sorry!)
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Going off your predictions, here’s my 2024 Royal Fandom Bingo Card:
(sorry can’t spell names correctly and did this quickly)
Bea announces second pregnancy 
Raya announces pregnancy
Other jordanian princess announces pregnancy 
Death in the Spanish royal family 
Norwegian king dies / hakaan becomes king 
Meghan announces her instagram 
Meghan announces a fashion collab 
Meghan on a magazine cover 
Meghan does a small role or guest stars in a tv show / donates money(?) 
Meghan hints at a book and more royal drama in interview 
Meghan drops an interview on Kate’s birthday 
Harry loses ravec case 
Harry loses other gov case relating to security 
Harry flies to UK to visit friends / lick wounds 
Rumors of Sussex split pop up again 
Sofia announces pregnancy 
Prince Sebastian announces engagement 
Grosvenor wedding drama 
Ppow go on big tour to Australia 
Kate gets garter and Charles order 
Kate wears girls tiara 
George will attend Eton announcement 
Peter announces engagement 
Zara announces pregnancy 
Charlotte announces a third pregnancy 
Beatrice B announces another pregnancy 
Tatiana announces another pregnancy 
More drama out of Jordanian royal family 
Martha Louis and Derek cover a European vogue with a splashy wedding photo 
Pretender to the Serbian throne Alexander unsuccessfully tries to lobby government to reinstate the monarchy, again 
THIS IS SO MUCH FUN!! I'm going to see which ones I agree with and which I don't:
Bea announces second pregnancy - agree Raya announces pregnancy - agree Other jordanian princess announces pregnancy - disagree Death in the Spanish royal family - disagree Norwegian king dies / hakaan becomes king - agree Meghan announces her instagram - disagree Meghan announces a fashion collab - disagree Meghan on a magazine cover - agree Meghan does a small role or guest stars in a tv show / donates money - agree Meghan hints at a book and more royal drama in interview - disagree Meghan drops an interview on Kate’s birthday - disagree Harry loses ravec case - agree Harry loses other gov case relating to security - agree Harry flies to UK to visit friends - disagree Rumors of Sussex split pop up again - agree (but only because rumours are continuous, I don't think they'll split and I don't want them to) Sofia announces pregnancy - agree Prince Sebastian announces engagement - disagree Grosvenor wedding drama - agree Ppow go on big tour to Australia - disagree Kate gets garter and Charles order - disagree (but she will get the family order) Kate wears girls tiara - disagree George will attend Eton announcement - disagree Peter announces engagement - disagree Zara announces pregnancy - disagree  Charlotte announces a third pregnancy - disagree Beatrice B announces another pregnancy - disagree Tatiana announces another pregnancy - disagree More drama out of Jordanian royal family - disagree Martha Louis and Derek cover a European vogue with a splashy wedding photo - agree Pretender to the Serbian throne Alexander unsuccessfully tries to lobby government to reinstate the monarchy, again - agree
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romanovsonelastdance · 7 months
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OTMAA Contemporaries: The Italian Royal Family.
From left: Yolanda (1901) with Maria Francesca (1914), Umberto (1904), Mafalda (1902) and Giovanna (1907). Like OTMAA, there were four sisters and only one brother; but in this case, the brother was the middle child. This generation of Italian royalty did have some Romanov connections, as their mother, Queen Elena, was born a princess of Montenegro, and her sisters Militza and Anastasia had married into the Romanov family. Therefor the young Italian royals were first cousins of Roman Petrovich and his sisters Marina and Nadejda. Another aunt, Zorka, had married into the Serbian royal family, and the Italians also counted King Alexander of Serbia/Yugoslavia and his sister, Elena Petrovna, who married Prince Ioann Konstantinovich, among their cousins.
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scotianostra · 1 year
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On 26th November 1917 Elsie Inglis, the Scottish nursing pioneer and suffragette, died.
There are very few people who were neither born or died in Scotland that are as highly regarded and respected as Scots, than Elsie Inglis, the only other that springs to mind is Eric Liddell.
Elsie parents were Scots Harriet Lowes Thompson and John Inglis, who worked for the East India Company, when her father retired from his job in 1878 the Inglis family returned to Scotland and settled in Edinburgh.
Having studied medicine at the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women Inglis subsequently established her own medical college. She qualified as a doctor and secured a teaching appointment at the New Hospital for Women.  A keen suffragette Inglis was later to found her own maternity hospital entirely staffed by women.
In 1906 Inglis played a notable role in the establishment of the Scottish Women’s Suffrage Federation.  The outbreak of war in Europe in August 1914 brought about a temporary ceasefire where political - including suffragette - issues were concerned, and Inglis promptly suggested the creation of women’s medical units on the Western Front.
The British government reacted to Inglis’s idea was frowned upon, she was told  “‘my good lady, go home and sit still’. .  Nevertheless a similar offer made directly to the French government was warmly received and Inglis travelled to France within three months of the outbreak of war, with the Abbaye de Royaumont hospital, containing some 200 beds, in place by December 1914. This was later followed by a second hospital at Villers Cotterets in 1917.
Inglis was active in arranging for the despatch of women’s units to other fighting areas aside from the Western Front, the first Scottish Women’s Hospital field unit was formed in December 1914 in a town called Kragujevac in Serbia.others followed  at Salonika, Romania, Malta and Corsica in 1915 and to Russia the following year.
Inglis herself served in Serbia from 1915 until the Serbian government and army withdrew to Corfu ,she had been held prisoner for a period until U.S. diplomatic pressure brought about her release.   Thereafter based in Russia she was taken ill, the government demanded she come home but Elsie refused until the Serbian soldiers were guaranteed safe passage. The boat brought them back to Newcastle and Elsie, who was crippled with illness, could hardly walk as she greeted Serbian soldiers on deck. She was so frail she had to be carried off to a nearby hotel where she died on 26th  November 1917.
Elsie’s body was taken “home” to Edinburgh where it was interned in Dean Cemetery, beforehand it lay in state in St Giles’ Cathedral.  Her funeral there on 29th November was attended by both British and Serbian royalty.
The SWH continued its work for the duration of the war, sending out more units and raising money for the work. Remaining funds were used to establish the Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh in July 1925, it closed in 1988.
There is a Memorial Drinking Fountain “Crkvenac” in Mladenovac, Serbia commemorating her work for the country. A plaque commemorates her at 8 Walker Street, Edinburgh. A portrait of her is included in the mural of heroic women by  Walter P. Starmer at  St Jude’s Church, Hampstead Garden, London. In 1922 a large tablet to her memory (sculpted by  Pilkington Jackson)  was erected in the north aisle of St Giles on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.  
A movie is set to be made of her biography, penned by her sister, Eva called The Woman With the Torch, no date yet about a release, work is ongoing as far as I can see,
Edinburgh is set to have a statue erected to Elsie, it will be the first woman to be commemorated with a statue on the Royal Mile at the site of her hospice on the High Street, which is between the Bridges and The Netherbow.  Unfortunately controversy has meant it has been put on hold after a bitter row about the choice of sculptor.
Anger erupted after the trustees suspended their open call for designs and instead commissioned Stoddart, the King’s sculptor in ordinary in Scotland. 
In late September, they tweeted: “The call to artists has been suspended indefinitely owing to considerations that have been brought to the attention of the trustees in recent weeks. This information has therefore rendered the brief as published suboptimal to ensure the successful outcome of the project at design scheduling and budgetary levels.”
The furore has brought fresh attention to the absence of female statuary in Edinburgh, which has dozens of monuments to male soldiers, kings, intellectuals and physicians. Those include one of Stoddart’s best-known works, a large bronze of the philosopher David Hume outside the high court near St Giles’.
Part of the problem is that some say the statue should be made by a woman, and I agree, why should a woman not get to make a a statue about a woman who did a lot for their rights. Edinburgh should be making a stand on this. 
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royal-hair · 1 year
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Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia at former King Constantine's funeral at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Athens, Greece - 16.01.23
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