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[dreamconsumer]

Isabella I (1451-1504) 'The Catholic' by Pierre Gustave Eugene Staal.

[perfectday1972]

‘girl with two faces’ by nathan lerner, 1932

[feifalik]

Duchess Cecilie Auguste Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (20 September 1886 – 6 May 1954), last German Crown Princess and Crown Princess of Prussia as the wife of Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, the son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor.

[cocainejuul]

Joel Meyerowitz, Spinning Christmas Tree, 1977

[queenmarytudor]

“She was a king’s daughter, she was a king’s sister, she was a king’s wife. She was a queen, and by the same title a king.” - John White, bishop of Winchester, at Mary I’s funeral, 13th December 1558

[adini-nikolaevna]

The three eldest sons of Emperor Alexander II of Russia (l. to r. Grand Dukes Alexander, Vladimir, and Nicholas) by Hau.

[feifalik]

Empress Elisabeth of Austria: Portrait in a black dress with tiara, c. 1890. Sold for 48.000 Euros © Dorotheum.

[vigilantsycamore]

English spelling isn't that hard to understand as long as you also understand French orthography, Dutch orthography, the Great Vowel Shift, the Latin language, the history of the printing press, and the etymology of every word introduced to English in the last 600 years

[whizpurr]

[delicatecombat]

[alainetromy]

Romy Schneider and Alain Delon in The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)

[witekspicsoldpostcards]

STRASSBURG - ALSACE / FRANCE

[fordarkmornings]

Ludwig von Hagn (German, 1819-1898)

In the Garden of the Palazzo Colonna in Rome, 1867

[royal-things]

Princess Marina, the Duchess of Kent, and her daughter Princess Alexandra photographed wearing the same dress (inspired by Greek national costume), 33 years apart.

1938 by Cecil Beaton | 1971 by Norman Parkinson

[europesroyalsjewels]

Empress Eugenie’s Pearl & Diamond Tiara ♕ The Louvre Museum

[graceandfamily]

Clipped from Karsh : a fifty-year retrospective (1983)

[theresbloodonyouu]