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Trained for Queenship since Childhood

“Victoria as a little girl did not know that she was likely to inherit the throne of her uncle George IV. She was always addressed as “Princess” and certainly understood that she was part of the royal family of England, but the possibility that she might one day be queen was carefully kept from her. This unawareness shaped her sense of self in crucial ways. Unlike George IV, who became Prince of Wales virtually at birth, Queen Victoria did not move out of the cradle convinced of her own supreme importance. As princesses go, she was not especially vain, self-absorbed, and inconsiderate … Victoria was often naughty and temperamental, but so frank and clear-sighted that she disarmed her elders. After one stormy episode, the Duchess of Kent admonished her daughter, “When you are naughty, you make me and yourself very unhappy.” “No, Mama,” retorted the feisty tot, “not me, not myself, but you.””

- We Two. Victoria and Albert. Partners. Rulers. Rivals by Gillian Gill

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I hate the idea of royalty but I love knowing historical stuff about dumb and weird royalty because they're all so dumb and weird and horrible

And this gold-decked parasite is the dumbest and most horrible one (staged an armed coup to seize absolute power back from the land assembly and designed ugly outfits for all the nobility to wear around him while still dressing up in import silks himself but ALSO finally got shot at his own masquerade party because he just really wanted to party so much that he didn't care about the threats to shoot him and they got him) and im sorry but he's been my favourite historical oppressor of ours since i was in year eight i think and every time something reminds me of him i go insane

Europe is currently being burned alive and people still think climate change is a joke. It’s warmer in North Europe than in the middle eastern deserts.

Nearly all northern countries broke their decades old heat records this week.

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Its only in the low hundreds in farenheit??? In America we get that for like a month or two straight every year??? Y'all need to deal is it really normally so cold over there that yall can live with a little heat???

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If you’re gonna have an ignorant American attitude then please only stay on American posts. No one in North Europe has an AC in their houses. Stores, animal shelters, elderly houses, no one has AC. the houses are designed to keep the heat in. The people are not accustomed to the heat. A sudden climate shift like this is extremely dangerous to older people and babies specifically.

There are programs being run to inform elderly people what to do to not die in this heat. There was a heatwave in the Netherlands in 2010 in which approximately 500 more elderly people passed away than normally.

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One thing people don’t often appreciate is that the southern US states are along the same latitude as the Middle Eastern deserts, rather than northern Europe. We’re not competing with Texas, we’re competing with northern Canada. If Saskatoon can’t handle Mexican weather, London can’t handle Middle-Eastern weather. It’s not built for it at all.

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very helpful and informative graphic

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ppl are like omg the moots 😊 mutuals id eat bread with hehe 😊 and then they interact on the dash and its like

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can you draw sonic the hashbrown?

craftylilcreatures

Sometimes i remember that i can make whatever i want

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The Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo. The palace was commissioned during the reign of Catherine the Great for her grandson Grand Duke Alexander (later Tsar Alexander I). The palace was built and designed by the illustrious Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi and completed in 1796. When Alexander became tsar, he preferred to live in the nearby Catherine Palace.

The palace was also used as the primary residence of Tsar Nicholas II in the aftermath of the 1905 Revolution. The events of Bloody Sunday (9 January, 1905) meant that the tsar and his family were unpopular in St Petersburg, and it was safer for them to reside at Tsarskoye Selo.

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As for me, dear one, all I can answer for is my heart and my intentions and my zeal for everything that can tend to the good and to the utility of my fatherland, according to my best convictions. As for talent, perhaps I lack some, but it is not provided; it is a blessing of nature and nobody has ever procured it. Seconded as badly as I am, lacking instruments on all sides, directing so enormous a machine in a terrible crisis and against an infernal antagonist who possesses the most horrible wickedness joined to the most eminent talent and is helped by all the forces of Europe as a whole, and by a mass of talented men who have been trained for twenty years in war and revolution, one would be obliged to agree, if one is far, that it is not astonishing that I feel reversals. […] You will recall that often I foresaw this in talking with you; the very loss of two capitals was believed to be possible, and it is perseverance alone that was considered to be the remedy for the evils of this cruel period. Far from discouraging me despite all the setbacks I have suffered, I am resolved more than ever to persevere in the struggle, and all my care goes to this goal. It is with frankness I admit to you that being misunderstood by the public or by a mass of beings who know me poorly or not at all, is a lesser pain for me than that of being similarly treated by the small number of those to whom I have devoted all my affections and who I hope would know me deeply. But even if this pain was added to all those others I bear, I protest before God that I would not accuse them and would see in this only the common fate of unfortunate beings, that of being abandoned.

A letter from Alexander I to his sister Catherine on September 7, 1812. From Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon by Marie-Pierre Rey translated by Susan Emanuel, pg 255. (via tsar-and-autocrat-of-all-russia)

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“On July 12, at nine o'clock in the morning, he appeared at the top of the Kremlin’s staircase of honor, the famous Red Steps, and saw at his feat a sea of heads. All Russia was there before him, united in religious veneration. Shouts rose from the crowd, mingled and grew louder: ‘Hurrah!’ 'Lead us where you will!’ 'Guide us, our father!’ 'We will die or conquer!…’ As the Czar descended the steps hundreds of hands reached out to touch him. The people laughed, wept, tried to kiss the edge of his uniform. With great difficulty he cleared himself a path to the cathedral, where the bishops welcomed him with a ringing speech: 'God is with you. Through your voice He will command the tempest, and calm will return, the waves of the deluge will subside.’”

Alexander of Russia: Napoleon’s Conquerer, Henri Troyat

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…this strange judgment delivered by Napoleon in exile in Saint Helena: ‘The Emperor of Russia is a man infinitely superior to all that: he has spirit, grace, and education; he is easily seductive, but he should not be trusted: he is without candor, a true Greek of the Lower Empire. […] Perhaps also he was trying to mystify me, for he is subtle, false, and adroit; he could go far. If I die here, he will be my true heir in Europe.

Napoleon on Alexander I: from Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon by Marie-Pierre Rey, pg xiii-xiv (via tsar-and-autocrat-of-all-russia)

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