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Olga and Tatiana, 1911

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July 5, 2026 | Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Prince Sverre Magnus attended the FIFA World Cup 2026 Round of 16 match between Brazil and Norway, witnessing their national team's triumph, at New York New Jersey Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. 

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Grand Duchesses Anastasia and Tatiana Romanov, Tsarevich Alexei Romanov, Anna Vyrubova, Alexander Vorontsov-Dashkov, Sergei Andreyevich Derevenko and Alexandr Alexandrovich Drenteln, in Livadia 1911.

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Olga and Tatiana in the Mauve Room, c. 1915. [source]

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The Coffee Room at the Lower Dacha

The coffee room was decorated like a bedroom: low mahogany paneling, cretonne with garlands of flowers on the walls, a coffered stucco ceiling, mahogany furniture characteristic of the Art Nouveau style-tables, armchairs with elegant curved legs, built-in corner sofas with shelves - made by the Roman Melzer.

Here, whole family liked to gather in the evenings to read books or past photos in albums. The imperial family was very fond of photography, and in the Lower Dacha there were over 1,000 photographs that vividly captured various events and features of everyday life of the royal family.

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Alexandra sitting in the coffee room in 1911 and with her nephew Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich.

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Spotted next to Alexandra are a few photos of Alexei aboard the Standart and of her brother Louis with his daughter Elisabeth:

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Ernest Louis of Hesse holding his niece on his shoulder's Grand Duchess Tatiana Romanov in 1912.

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Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia by Hau.

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1896 Magazine page featuring Alexandra Feodorovna.

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“A happy day: the Lord sent us a third daughter—Maria, who was safely born at 12.10!” —Nicholas II’s diary (from A Lifelong Passion by Andrei Maylunas and Sergei Mironenko) “Tall, plump with sable brows, a bright blush on her open Russian face, she is especially appealing to a Russian heart. One looks and involuntarily imagines her dressed in a Russian Boyar sarafan; around her arms one imagines muslin sleeves, on the high breast—precious stones, and above the high white brow—a kokoshnik with exquisite pearls ... her eyes illuminate her entire face with a unique, radiant luster; they sometimes seem black, as long eyelashes throw shadows over the bright blush of her soft cheeks. She is merry and alive, but she has not yet awakened completely to life; probably concealed in her are the immense forces of a real Russian woman.” —Sofia Ofrosimova (from Maria Romanov: Third Daughter of the Last Tsar, Diaries and Letters, 1908-1918)

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The Royal Easel announcing the birth of HRH Prince William of Wales outside Buckingham Palace on 21 June 1982. It reads:

“Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales was safely delivered of a son at 9:03 PM today.

Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well.”

(📷Getty Images)

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"We were awaiting our parents’ return, and had even thought out a little ‘tableau’ which we could enact for a welcome. Then, while we were at lunch on the Sunday, Monsignor Stanowsky, the tutor to my brothers, was called away from the table to the telephone. He came back completely shaken but said nothing, and we thought it was bad news about his mother, who was very ill at the time. He immediately rang up our aunt Henriette, my mother’s sister, in Prague, and asked her to come to Chlumetz immediately. She arrived that afternoon and told us, more or less straightaway, that there had been an attack on our parents and that they were both injured. We were shattered and begged to be allowed to go to them. Instead, we were taken to the village church in Chlumetz to pray for them. Stili we had no idea how dreadful the news really was. They let us sleep - as well as we could - overnight, and then, early the next morning, we were told the dreadful truth".

Memoirs of Sophie Hohenberg

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Empress Masako, Queen Maxima, Princess Amalia and Princess Ariane attend a state banquet in honor of the Japanese imperial couple at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam | June 17, 2026

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Empress Masako of Japan during the welcome ceremony in Dam Square in Amsterdam. June 17, 2026.

📷 Albert Nieboer

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Princess Ariane during the photocall before to the state banquet at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam. June 17, 2026.

📷 Patrick van Katwijk

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Russian, Danish, & British Royals

featured in photograph n1, from left to right: queen alexandra of the united kingdom, future king george v, grand duchess xenia alexandrovna, prince waldemar of denmark, princess marie of orleans, a small part of prince george of greece and denmark can be seen, princess maria of greece and denmark, and the future tsar nicholas ii of russia.

featured in the photograph n2, from left to right: future king george v, prince waldemar of denmark, empress marie feodorovna, prince george of greece and denmark, princess maria of greece and denmark, and the future tsar nicholas ii.

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King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima officially welcome the Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako to the Netherlands in Dam Square in Amsterdam. June 17, 2026.

📷 AD.nl

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June 13, 2026 | Princess Takamado kindly helps Princess Benedikte with her pearls, during King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Sivia's 50th wedding anniversary celebrations in Stockholm, Sweden.