#German aristocracy

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TIARA ALERT: Countess Lara Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck wore the Couteulx Floral Diamond Tiara for Le Bal des Débutantes at the Shangri La Hotel in Paris on 25 November 2023.

[dreamconsumer]

Portrait of Princess Karoline Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1771-1848), second wife of Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Altenburg. By Josef Grassi and Ludwig Döll.

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Alexandrine of Baden (1820-1904), by William Ross.

She was Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 29 January 1844 to 22 August 1893 as the wife of Duke Ernest II.

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Daisy, Princess of Pless, in her wedding gown (1891)

via gogmsite.net

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Schloss Ahrensburg, Germany. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Holger.Ellgaard

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one of my favourite things about AO3 tags is their dedication to canon accuracy, even when that means it devolves into complete mayhem like

Percy was not named with a fan following in mind, this was clearly a running gag but it's his name so they have to use all of it

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873) "Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Russia" (1859) Oil on canvas Currently in the Royal Collection of the British royal faamily

[tiarascrowns]

PROPERTY OF A ROYAL FAMILY - 19TH CENTURY SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND PARURE

IMPORTANT 19TH CENTURY SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND CROWN

Octagonal step-cut and oval-shaped sapphires, varied old-cut diamonds, gold, 1840s, 45.3 cm, brown fitted case

EARLY 19TH CENTURY IMPORTANT SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND TIARA

Octagonal step-cut and oval-shaped sapphires, rose and old-cut diamonds, gold, circa 1800, 49.0 cm, black fitted case

TWO EARLY 19TH CENTURY SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND PENDANTS

Oval-shaped sapphire, old-cut diamonds, gold, circa 1800, 3.6 cm

Octagonal step-cut sapphire, old-cut diamonds, gold, circa 1800, 3.2 cm

TWO EARLY 19TH CENTURY SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND BROOCHES

Oval-shaped sapphire, old-cut diamonds, gold, circa 1800, 3.7 cm

Octagonal step-cut sapphire, rose and old-cut diamonds, gold, circa 1800, 3.6 cm

EARLY 19TH CENTURY SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND EARRINGS

Pear and cushion-shaped sapphires, old-cut diamonds, gold, circa 1800, 4.4 cm

EARLY 19TH CENTURY SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND BRACELET

Octagonal step-cut sapphires, old-cut diamonds, gold, circa 1800, 17.5 cm

EARLY 19TH CENTURY SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND RING

Octagonal step-cut sapphire, single and old-cut diamonds, gold, circa 1800, ring size 6 ½

EARLY 19TH CENTURY SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND NECKLACE

Octagonal step-cut sapphires, rose and old-cut diamond, gold, circa 1800, 40.5 cm, black fitted case

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Bernardo Germán de Llórente (Spanish, 1685-1759) Portrait of Infant Felipe, ca.1729-35 Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla

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1. comrade eroica

2. james so cute

3. why the fuck is eberbach talking like that

[katzenfalter]

Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate (1622 – 1709) was a German aristocrat, abbess and artist (source).

She was the daughter of Frederick V of the Palatinate (for a short time King of Bohemia) and Elizabeth Stuart and therefore a great-granddaughter of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.

Selfportrait, ca. 1650. Photo by Sotheby's.

She was trained by Gerard van Honthorst - some of her work was attributed to him and for a long time she was considered an 'amateur'. Only since the 1980's she is recognised as an artist in her own right.

Allegorical portrait of three ladies and a child. Photo: Christies.

[tiaramania]

TIARA ALERT: Countess Sophia von der Schulenburg wore the Schleswig-Holstein Diamond Bow Tiara for her wedding to Prince Constantin of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg at Església de Sant Bartomeu in Sóller, Mallorca on 1 June 2024.

[dreamconsumer]

Duke Albrecht of Bavaria (1905-1996).

His paternal grandfather was Ludwig III of Bavaria, the last king of Bavaria, who was deposed in 1918.

[roehenstart]

Prince Philipp Erasmus of Liechtenstein (1664-1704). By Henri Gascar.

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Daisy, Princess of Pless (2nd September 1898)

Daisy, born in 1873 as Mary Theresa Olivia Cornwallis-West, was the daughter of Col. William Cornwallis-West and Mary "Patsy" FitzPatrick (one-time mistress of the future Edward VII); she was descended from the Earls of De La Warr, the Marquesses of Headfort, and the ancient Irish Kings of Osraige. Her sister was the Duchess of Westminster and her brother was the second husband to Lady Jennie Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill. In 1891, she married Hans Heinrich XV von Hochberg, member of a fabulously wealthy aristocratic family in the German Empire. Upon her marriage she became known as Princess of Pless (Fürstin von Pless in German). She had four children and divorced her husband in 1922. She died in relative penury in Silesia (modern-day Poland) in 1943; and although originally buried in the Hochberg family mausoleum, her remains were desecrated and scattered by Red Army soldiers in 1945, and she remains buried in an undisclosed location.

photo and info via wikipedia.org

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Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Hannover (1789) by Thomas Lawrence. National Gallery.