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Royal Birthdays for today, August 5th:

Alexander Jagiellon, King of Poland, 1461

Philippe Charles, Duke of Anjou, 1668

Louise of the Netherlands, Queen of Sweden and Norway, 1828

Carola of Vasa, Queen of Saxony, 1833

Maria della Neve Adelaide, Princess of Bourbon Parma, 1885

Irene, Princess of the Netherlands, 1939

Ashi Sonam Dechan, Princess of Bhutan, 1981

Salwa Aga Khan, Wife of Rahim Aga Khan,

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Taissa Farmiga as Gladys Russell

The Gilded Age 3.07

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Marie José of Belgium, Queen of Italy. Photographed by Luigi Vaghi, 1931.

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Did/does your childhood home have a swimming pool?

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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

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1920's — Elizabeth Bowes Lyon

Historical Fashion Challenge 2025

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The two matters prominent in their minds turned out to be linked. Bertie and Elizabeth were desperate to extricate themselves from White Lodge and find a permanent home in London. They equally yearned for Elizabeth to get pregnant. In a letter to the Prince of Wales that August, Bertie confided, “I still long for one thing which you can guess, & so does she.”

That mission had likely already been accomplished by then. A month later, writing to Bertie at Balmoral, Elizabeth reported, “I am feeling much better now, tho’ the sight of wine simply turns me up! Isn’t it extraordinary? it will be a tragedy if I never recover my drinking powers”

In the middle of October, they shared the good news with the King and Queen and the Strathmores. Queen Mary conveyed their joy “that we may look forward to a direct descendant in the male line” and that “the country will be delighted when they are allowed to know.”

George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy - Sally Bedell Smith

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Imagine your favorite historical figure holding a baby

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Royal Birthdays for today, August 4th:

Külüg Khan, Emperor of China, 1281

Leopold I, Duke of Austria, 1290

Margarete of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1469

Udai Singh II, King of Mewar, 1522

Louis d'Orléans, duc d'Orléans, 1703

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen of the United Kingdom, 1900

Marie Jose of Belgium, Queen of Italy, 1906

Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, 1981

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The Gilded Age "Ex- Communicated"

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"December 1, 1627 My father has four wives, but I am the daughter of the one he loves most, Arjumand Banu Begum. I, too, am a Begum, a princess. My name is Jahanara, great-granddaughter of Akbar, the greatest Moghul ruler if India... I have diamonds the size of beetles, and I have thirty servants and eight elephants trained especially for me. I have everything except freedom. We are all of us imprisoned: my mother, my father, my younger brothers, and my younger sister. In tents hung with gold cloth, we drink from emerald-studded chalices and yet we are prisoners."

The Royal Diaries: Jahanara: Princess of Princesses, by Kathryn Lasky.

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CARRIE COON as BERTHA RUSSELL The Gilded Age, 3x06 "If You Want to Cook an Omelette" (2025)

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"I crossed the line, forgive me."

YASEMIN ALLEN AS DEFNE SULTAN IN MAGNIFICENT CENTURY - episode 4.27

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Royal Birthdays for today, August 3rd:

Maria of Jülich-Berg, Duchess of Jülich-Berg, 1491

Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770

Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, 1817

Haakon VII, King of Norway, 1872

Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, 1943

Louis of Luxembourg, Prince of Nassau, 1986

Charlotte Casiraghi, Daughter of Princess Caroline, 1986

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THE GILDED AGE (2022-) Costume Appreciation Gladys Russell in 3.06 - If You Want to Cook an Omelette

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An equestrian portrait of Francisca of Brazil, Princess of Joinville.

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On the 2nd of August, at two in the morning they woke us up to read to my mother the decree of the Convention which ordered that, on the requisition of the prosecutor of the Commune, she should be taken to the Conciergerie in preparation for her trial. She listened to the reading of the decree without emotion, and without saying a single word.  My aunt and I asked at once to go with my mother, but this mercy was not granted to us. While she was making up a parcel of her clothes the municipals never left her; she was obliged to even dress herself before them. They asked for her pockets, which she gave them; they searched them and took all that was in them although there was nothing of importance. They made a packet of these articles and said they would send it to the revolutionary tribunal, where it would be opened before her. They left her only a handkerchief and a smelling-bottle, in the fear that she might be taken faint.

My mother, after tenderly embracing me and telling me to have courage, to take good care of my aunt, and to obey her as a second mother, repeated to me the same instructions that my father had given me; then throwing herself into my aunt’s arms she commended her children to her. I answered nothing, so terrified was I at the idea that I saw her for the last time; my aunt said a few words to her in a low voice. Then my mother went away without casting her eyes upon us, fearing no doubt that her firmness might abandon her. She stopped once at the foot of the Tower, because the municipals had to make a procès-verbal to discharge the concierge from the care of her person. As she went out, she struck her head against the lintel of the door, not thinking to lower it. They asked her if she was hurt. “Oh, no,” she said; “nothing can hurt me now.”

The Ruin of a Princess