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illustratus · 9 months ago
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Lancelot crossing the Sword Bridge
Miniature illustration from a four-volume manuscript made for Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours. Workshop of Évrard d'Espinques. Circa 1475.
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lordcastaway · 4 months ago
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obsessed with the line-up
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ifreakingloveroyals · 3 months ago
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Happy 40th Birthday Henry Charles Albert David! (b. 15 September 1984)
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foreverinthepagesofhistoryy · 10 months ago
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Rare photos of Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and By Rhine with her son Prince Ernst Louis of Hesse and By Rhine (later Grand Duke), 1869 🤍
Source: Hessian State Archives
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kingoftheu · 1 year ago
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Arms I made up for Jane Roland (and later Emily’s) Ducal House. Roland’s titles are never mentioned in the books, but I have her created Duchess of Carmarthen. Carmarthen was a major center in Wales prior to industrialization. It is meant something of an insult from the government because the Welsh are icky, just like women and aviators. The Rolands, naturally, do not care one bit and rather take a liking to the place. Most estates they are awarded are in England, however. They do not currently have a seat because they have dragons to fly. Might get some subsidiary titles (maybe something named for Scotland near Loch Laggan) so that Emily can be a Countess.
The dragon is not a perfect longwings, but it is blue, and holding a grenade to symbolize the guns and bombs. Four yellow stripes on green for an Admiral of the Air. Golden Laurels for Victory. A ducal coronet above. Jane is extremely mad that the College of Arms said she couldn’t swear in her motto, and refuses to use Latin or French until someone suggests “Excidium.” The dragon himself is quite pleased with this, although wishes his portrait was better. But the poor College of Arms people are already so sad about his hastily put together arms that Jane just left it.
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thewonderfulwaleses · 2 years ago
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Wishing Prince Louis a very happy 5th birthday today!
04.23.23
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beatrack92 · 7 months ago
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Gemma Tutton (Duke)
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coquette2004 · 2 months ago
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The Stuarts and Friends: On Halloween
*Stay home and give out candy to the little kids*: James VI and I, Mary II, Hans William Bentinck, George of Denmark
*Go to a party*: Mary Queen of Scots, Anne of Denmark, Charles II, James Duke of Monmouth, Arnold Joost van Keppel, Sarah Churchill, John Churchill
*(And get drunk)*: Charles II, James Duke of Monmouth
*Wear a cute costume*: Catherine of Braganza, Mary of Modena
*Wear a sexy costume*: Mary Queen of Scots, Anne of Denmark, Anne Hyde
*Wear a really creative costume*: Charles II, Sarah Churchill
*Don't celebrate Halloween*: Charles I, William III, Anne Queen of Great Britain
*HAVE BANNED HALLOWEEN*: Henrietta Maria, James II
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dubmill · 1 year ago
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Dukes's Meadows, Chiswick, London; 12.12.2013
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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year ago
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.
George Eliot
HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Kent is one of the most underrated members of the Royal Family, always stoic he’s always been dependable and never flusters, the world needs more 'Steady Eddies'.
There’s no question that the Duke of Kent’s dedication to serving the crown and the country is beyond reproach. For over 50 years, the Duke of Kent has been performing royal duties and on behalf of the monarchy. HRH Prince Edward at a young age filled a huge role vacated by the untimely death of his father in 1942. Since then, the Duke of Kent has ceaselessly spent much of his time performing ceremonial functions, attending charitable causes and supporting various organisations on behalf of his cousin Queen Elizabeth II and the British Monarchy. He has represented Her Majesty in the independence celebrations in the former British colonies of Sierra Leone, Uganda, Guyana, and Gambia. Most recently he has attended the 50th Independence Anniversary Celebration of Ghana. He has also acted as Counselor of State during periods of the  Queen's absence abroad.
What is often forgotten is that HRH Prince Edward was a fine soldier. Much like the late Duke of Edinburgh’s naval service was subsumed by his royal persona, the Duke of Kent has never let his royal duties interfere with his army career.
Prince Edward attended Ludgrove in Berkshire for his preparatory education. He then proceeded to Eton College and later in Le Rosey in Switzerland. After school, he attended the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, where he won the Sir James Moncrieff Grierson prize for foreign languages. After graduating from Sandhurst in 1955, the duke joined the Royal Scots Grey as Second Lieutenant. That was the start of a military career that spanned over 20 years, one which took him to various places around the world.
In 1961, he was promoted Captain; Major in 1967; and Lieutenant Colonel in 1973. In 1970 the Duke commanded a squadron of his regiment serving in the British Sovereign Base Area in Cyprus, part of the UN force enforcing peace between the Greek and Turkish halves of the island. The duke also spent time commanding a unit in Northern Ireland shortly after the Troubles in the 1970s broke out, but was recalled early on grounds of security.
The duke now maintains his link with the services mainly through honorary rank, which includes that of Colonel of the Scots Guards. He was personal aide-de-camp to his cousin Queen Elizabeth II who promoted him supernumerary Major General on her official birthday in 1983. He was later made a Field Marshal in 1993.
HRH Prince Edward is the longest-serving royal colonel in history. Not just of the Scots Guards but of any regiment in the British Army.
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colorizedhistory · 1 year ago
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illustratus · 2 years ago
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Summoned to Waterloo, Brussels, 1815 by Robert Alexander Hillingford
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The Favourite (2018, Yorgos Lanthimos)
19/12/2024
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ifreakingloveroyals · 9 months ago
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11 June 2011 | Queen Elizabeth ll and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh attend the Trooping The Colour Ceremony in London, United Kingdom.
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royalty-nobility · 26 days ago
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Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon, 1743 - 1827. Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland
Artist: Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741 - 1807)
Date: 1774
Medium: OIl on canvas
Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburg, Scotland
About the artwork
When the young duke made his Grand Tour of Italy in the early 1760s, he commissioned several copies after the old masters by the Swiss artist Angelica Kauffmann, then living in Rome. Kauffmann moved to London in 1766 where she painted Gordon in fashionable ‘Van Dyck’ dress together with the companion picture of his wife, the Duchess of Gordon. In this portrait the duke holds a miniature of his wife, although they did not enjoy a happy marriage, eventually separating in 1793. Whereas his wife was interested in the cosmopolitan world of politics, the duke preferred rural pursuits such as hunting on his Aberdeenshire estates and breeding deerhounds and setters.
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Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, with his sister, Princess Helena of Schleswig-Holstein, then both Prince/Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, posing for a portrait, 1850s
Source: Royal Collection Trust
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