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'Franklin Urging the Claims of the American Colonies Before Louis XVI' by George Healy, circa 1847-1855.

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'Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette in the Temple of Venus at Château de Presles' by J. Pradel, dated 1787. If you enlarge the inscription on the bottom, it labels the rest of the guests, including Madame Elisabeth and the princesse de Lamballe.

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Portrait of my bf <3

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Queen Victoria seated on the Travancore throne wearing the sash of the Order of Neshan Aftab, presented to her by the Shah of Persia. Portrait taken as her official portrait as Empress of India in January 1876.

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I just discovered the art of Pavel Ryzhenko, and oh my goodness. hes done so much art depicting Imperial Russia which are some of my favorites. Unfortunately he was a monarchist and idolised Nicholas II, but I myself am here to admire his beautiful art. ”Imprisoned at Tsarskoye Selo” (2004)

Depicting the Tzar, Tzarina (with a tired and aged appearance from the results of fatigue over her short lifetime of childbirth and stress), and their young son Alexei (with a bandaged bleeding knee, symbolising his hemophilia, in bed - where he was most of his short, short, life.)

“The Ipatiev House. The morning after.” (2004)

Depicting a Bolshevik troup tearing apart a room in the Ipatiev House (or “The house of special purpose”) the morning after the murder of the Romanov family in that very house.

“The Farewell of the Tsar to His Troops” (2004)

Namesake, the Tzar bidding goodbye to his troops in the freezing Russian winter.

About Imperial Russia and monarchism- I am not a supporter of Nicholas II or monarchism, but I believe that he shouldve been given a trial by jury and HIS CHILDREN SHOULD NOT HAVE DIED. Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei were completely innocent and had nothing to do with their fathers pathetic and disgusting choices as Tzar. So im just putting that there for clarification.

Rest in peace, royal angels Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei ☦️

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Ayo, it's so cool to find someone who's super interested in Marie-Thérèse Charlotte too! When I was fixated on Marie Antoinette a couple years ago, I latched onto Thérèse by association and now she's one of those historical figures I have a soft spot for. Your art of Thérèse is so pretty and you nailed her appearance so well!

Anyway, feel free to infodump me cool facts about her 😄

AWWW THANK YOUUU!! 😭💗💗💗 I love love love Therese, she’s the only person I resonate to so much, both in character & life. She’s such a comfort to me 😭💔 and it’s such a shame how underrated she is as a historical figure

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Marie Thérèse Charlotte in prayer for her family

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A letter from Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse to his wife, Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse. 🤍

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"My dearest, sweet darling, you know I love you so much that I just can't go on repeating it to you all the time, I am so proud of you and of everything I hear about you. I wish I could come to you and tell you all this myself, and kiss you and press you to my heart, but I cannot leave here... Goodbye my angel..."

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“At a ball on the 12th, the Prince summoned his courage in the middle of a mazurka to express his feelings to the young Grand Duchess. She spoke to her mother who undertook to consult the Tsar.  He took the young Prince out on the balcony and said: "We have a secret for you!"  Whereupon he kissed him and received him into the bosom of the family.  On the 13th the Tsar conferred on him the Order of St. Andrew, saying ‘I have also appointed him a Major-General: I can't after all give my daughter to a mere Captain!’”

- King Christian VIII of Denmark on the engagement of his nephew, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel, and Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia

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A statue of the Greek muse Thalia. She is seated and is holding a round object, possibly a drum, with one hand. Probably by James Anderson (British, 1813-1877) 

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Sam Shaw in Amagansett, New York, 1957.

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Do you know any books that talk about Louis XVI?

Sadly I don’t read much books about him 🥲 there’s Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel that mentions Louis XVI and things he did as a king and etc. Although it’s not completely reliable because the same biography mentions Louis having an affair with Duchess of Polignac and Antoinette having an affair with Count Fersen.

There’s also Louis & Antoinette by Vincent Cronin which goes more in insight about Louis XVI’s childhood, relationships with others and etc… I feel like it’s really difficult to find a decent biography about Antoinette and Louis 😭

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I found your tiktok account. People in your comments are crazy for thinking that Marie and Fersen had an affair, like she was already getting laid by her husband. There's like no point in going for fersen.

Yeah! 😕 Antoinette is sadly always accused of having extramarital affairs with her friends. Louis XVI in some biographies is also accused of sleeping with Antoinette’s friend Polignac. People will make any rumor possible instead of accepting the fact that they loved each other & were devoted to each other

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Doodles drawn by a 14 Year old Philip ii on one of his books

Source: Impudent King: A New Life of Philip ii

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Personally I don’t believe that Madame Tussaud made a death mask of Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI. One thing that makes me immediately doubt it is that the wax head looks nothing like Marie Antoinette from her most accurate portrait done by Duplessis.. she disliked that portrait because it got her features right so I always use it when comparing it to wax figures of Antoinette. Plus there’s no official record saying that Madame Tussaud claimed she in fact made wax figures of Antoinette & Louis XVI… it isn’t the first time the Tussauds museum would be lying because they also claim to have the wax figure of Madame du Barry but it was never based off of her 😭!

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Day & Evening Bodices owned by Empress Eugenie of France

1850s-1870s

The Bowes Museum via Facebook