#german descendant

[royalty-nobility]

Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (1837-1892)

Artist: Ludwig Hofmann-Zeitz (German, 1832-1895

Date: c.1878-1892

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, England, United Kingdom

Description

Louis IV (12 September 1837 – 13 March 1892) was the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until his death in 1892. Through his marriage to Queen Victoria's second daughter Alice, he was connected to the British royal family. Two of his daughters married into the House of Romanov.

He is shown in three-quarter-length. He wears the uniform of a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Hessian contingent of the Prussian army, the collar, star and ribbon of the Order of Louis, the star of the Garter and the Iron Cross. His badges include the Red Eagle, the Order 'Pour la Mérite', the Iron Cross, the Golden Lion, the Cross for Military Merit (Hesse), the Cross for Military Merit (Mecklenburg-Schwerin) and the Order of St George (Russia).

[sleepyking]

Here have some new cat!Red bits

[idontliketomatoesleavemealone]

Morgie: people always shoot down my ideas and I'm sick of it. Two sentences in and everyone's already shouting "what the fuck that's illegal" or "you can't do that" let me talk dear god

[funny---pics]

What the fuck is this

@staff @wip @support

"original posts only" as an opt-in?? If you have to make a useless change, at least don't make it the default!

And no way of letting bloggers choose whether or not they want their reblogs to show in the tag search, when until now that has always just been blog specific and people use weird tag systems on their blogs specific only to their blogs??

I don't tag for the search, it doesn't make sense for posts to show up there when I just tag stuff or people the posts remind me of, not what's actually in the post, or trash talk about a fandom I don't like and I definitely don't want that to show up in the search for people who are looking for content in that fandom.

Staff if you feel the need to keep that weird update around, at least make it so we can choose whether or not we want our reblog tags to count for the search!

Best would be an opt-in button per reblogged post, so the default would still be to not show them. Maybe in addition to that a blog settings thing to change whether you want to generally share reblogs to search or not, to always turn the slider to 'on', but the original default should definitely be 'off', holy f-

And a setting for when you make an original post, for whether you want ppls reblog-tags to even be allowed to show in the search, would be very appreciated too.

[theaskew]

Karin Székessy (German 1939-2010), Treppe (à Marcel Duchamps) (Staircase [à Marcel Duchamps]) 2015.

[nebuvoid]

One thing I enjoy doing is when someone brings up how "it makes them uncomfortable to hear foreigners talk in a foreign language" and I go well whenever I meet up with relatives in public we also speak in Polish and no we are never gossiping we're just talking. And they always fumble and go no no I don't think it's gossip and I wouldn't think that of you. So I go ok then what's the problem, that their skin colour, the language used? And they try so so hard to deny it and come up with some bullshit like "Well you never know if they're planning something what with the attacks lately" which is when I love to inform them of the statistics of public attacks perpetuated by German natives that speak German. They always have some last word but they know they sound like an idiot. Small victories.

[divinekangaroo]

What is the no makeup skincare routine of Alicia Keys?

So, after much erosion of time and memory, these are the parts I kept (with equivalent products):

Avene Eau Thermale Thermal Spring Water spray (keep in fridge, spray) (highly highly recommend. transforming. if nothing else this product changed me. I genuinely Do Not Understand Why but I try not to question it.)

Jade roller (keep in fridge) and add Vitamin C serum with caffeine (couple drops over roller, roll over face) -> the oil I get? but personally I think the jade roller thing is bullshit. Nevertheless, what it *makes* me do is a ritualistic ~paying attention~ to all parts of my face when otherwise I would just blob, swipe, go. And so it works because the roller means I moisturise every part equally instead of just putting a blob of oil on a cheekbone and walking away with a shiny nose and dry spots on the cheeks

Moisturiser base - Alicia's makeup artist's recommended one (a suncream) stopped being made a few years ago, the equivalent I found which gives same results (but not suncream) is Moo Goo's Natural Fast Hydrating Lotion, which has the benefit of also being a full body moisturiser so, less product on shelf = always a win

Add a tiny bit of primer or foundation to the moisturiser base, mix on hand before spreading on face. Again, Alicia's primer not available any more, the equivalents I found is 1) La Roche Posay Effaclar Duo, or 2) my current preferred-> Primp and Prime from The Organic Skin Company

Exfoliate lips once a week, brown sugar

Some mask thing once a week (I used to bother, no more, vague memories of it, no material difference)

A La Roche-Posay lip balm which I tried to google and found it was just discontinued? SOB (literally the only lip balm I have found in my entire life that delivers lastingly non-dry lips. I have this in bulk in my wardrobe. My lips crack to the bleeding. I've had friends say, "oh, but dry bleeding lips are just your aesthetic?" This stopped once I found this product. I can actually wear lipstick if I want without the colour leaching into the cracks like those cracked desert terrain images)

Do peripheral details because they will stand out:

-Do eyebrows once a week, tidy stray hairs

-Do hairline once a week (depends on ethnicity/hairline, mine does filter down into the face-space)

-Use eyelash curler

and lastly, the "no makeup" bit I did have to laugh at and I don't do:

Actually *wear* makeup for the red carpet, comprising tinted primer, mascara, tiny bit of eyeliner, light eyebrow pencil shaping, transculent shiny stuff rubbed on cheekbones, and a very carefully selected concealer for the under eye bags and general real world pigmentation which exists on all skin

The only thing I've added based on other reading, which I also attribute to the aggregate contributing of fixing my previous 25 years plus of weekly skin problems and pimples:

Shave my face once a week using the Avene spray as my shaving 'liquid'. Chin, cheeks, moustache, around eyebrows, monobrow, hairline, all of it. Unspeakably good results. Tiny small facial razor. Razor goes over each piece of skin exactly once, slowly, and use a very very sharp razor so there is no repeated strokes.

(The Avene spray, jade roller + serum, and the strategy of adding teh primer/foundation to the moisturiser to thin it out/improve spread were the true original items IIRC; the rest have adapted over time.)

[catholic-paladin]

Ok, so half of learning French is just unlearning how to pronounce Latin words because the same exact words in French are pronounced stupidly, and the other half is just saying wtf over and over again because it's all spelled janky as hell.

[molkolsdal]

[lazzarella]

I love that Felix’s name means happy or lucky considering, you know…everything

[renchanters]

what the fuck you mean your great great (whatever) grandfather signed the declaration of independence???

i’m directly related to roger sherman 👍 it was my great-grandmas maiden name

[frankhightower]

Welcome to my world

This is a sequel to Mousetown Market, which Evian drew for me a year ago, and is honestly the first Artfight attack I ever conceived. I've depicted the canonical mousetown station, which is on the same line as the one in the Special Passenger YCH from the year before. I had to restart this one twice due to computer hardware trouble. Feels good to see it finished

[acrossthewavesoftime]

History lesson for German school children in the 2050s:

20. Juli 1944: Operation Walküre

20. Juli 2023: Operation Wald-Löwe

[theroyalfanzine]

Queen Victoria's Currently living Eldest Decendants and Eldest Ever Descendants

This list is as of 19 April 2024

CURRENTLY LIVING

The Lady Pamela Hicks (19 April 1929) (95 years, 0 months, 0 days)

Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner (12 February 1932) (92 years, 2 months, 7 days)

Count Bertram Friedrich zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (12 July 1932) (91 years, 9 months, 7 days)

Mrs. Anne Mary Sibylla Liddell-Grainger (28 July 1932) (91 years,8 months, 22 days)

Princess Caroline Mathilde Adelheid Sibylla Marianne Erika von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (5 April 1933) (91 years, 0 months, 14 days)

Princess Dorothea Charlotte Karin of Hesse (24 July 1934) (89 years, 8 months, 26 days)

Princess Margaretha Désirée Victoria, Mrs. Ambler (Sweden, 31 October 1934) ( 89 years, 5months, 13 days)

Countess Viktoria Adelheid Clementine Louise von Castell-Rüdenhausen-Von Huntington-Whiteley (26 Februrary 1935)(89 years, 1 months, 24 days)

Prince Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, The Duke of Kent (9 October 1935) (88 years, 6 months, 10 days)

Miss Elizabeth Alice Abel Smith (5 September 1936) (87 years, 7 months, 14 days)

Eldest LIVED Descendants:

On 12 June 2025, Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner will join this list if she is still living.

Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh (10 June 1921-9 April 2021) ( 99 years, 10 months, 11 days)

Princess Alice of Albany, Countess of Athlone (25/02/1883-03/01/1981) (97 years, 10 months, 10 days)

Queen Elizabeth II of The United Kingdom (21 April 1926-8 September 2022) ( 96 years, 4 months, 18 days)

King Mihai I of Romania (25/10/1921-05/12/2017) ( 96 years, 1 month, 11 days)

Count Carl Johan Bernadotte af Wisborg (Sweden) (31/10/1916-05/05/2012) (95 years, 6 months, 5 days )

The Lady Pamela Hicks (19 April 1929) (95 years, 0 months, 0 days)

Count Sigvard Bernadotte af Wisborg (of Sweden) (07/06/1907-04/02/2002) (94 years, 7 months, 28 days )

Lady Katherine Brandram (Princess of Greece and Denmark) (04/05/1913 02/10/2007) ( 94 years, 4 months, 27 days )

Infanta Dona Beatriz   Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugénie Cristina Maria Teresia Bienvenida Ladislàa   of Spain, The Princess of Civitella-Cesi   (22/06/1909-22/11/2002) (93 years, 5 months, 1 day)

Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten- Knatchbull  , The 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (14/02/1924-13/06/2017) ( 93 years, 4 months)

FACTS:

The Duke of Edinburgh is the husband  and third cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, first cousin of Lady Katherine Brandram,  The Countess Mountbatten of Burma & Lady Pamela (Mountbatten) Hicks & uncle to Princess Dorothea Charlotte Karin of Hesse.  He is also a 1st cousin 1x removed of  Queen Sofia of Spain, King Constantine II of the Helenes and Princess Irene of Greece & Denmark and The Duke of Kent (The Duke of Kent’s mother Marina was The Duke of Edinburgh’s first cousin).

Queen Elizabeth II is a 3rd cousin of The Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Lady Pamela Mountbatten, The Duke of Edinburgh. She is the wife of The Duke of Edinburgh. Through her marriage, she is an aunt to  Princess Dorothea Charlotte Karin of Hesse. She is a first cousin of The Duke of Kent.

Lady Pamela Hicks is a 3rd cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, a first cousin of  The Duke of Edinburgh, her big sister was The Countess Mountbatten of Burma.

Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner is a third cousin of The Countess Mountbatten of Burma, The Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth II & Lady Pamela Hicks.

The Countess of Althorne was the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria. By her marriage,  The Countess of Althorne was also a great aunt of Queen Elizabeth II-she married QEII’s grandmother’s brother

King Mihai I of Romania was the last monarch of Romania, he was also a great grandchild of Queen Victoria twice-once through his mother (via Victoria, Princess Royal) and once through his father (via Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)

Sweden’s Count Carl Johan Bernadotte af Wisborg & Count Sigvard Bernadotte af Wisborg were brothers as well as uncles to King Carl XVI Gustaf, Princess Margareta, Mrs. Ambler, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Princess of Hohenzollern,  Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld,  Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Princess Benedikte of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg & Queen Anne-Marie of Greece.

Countess Viktoria Adelheid Clementine Louise von Castell-Rüdenhausen-Von Huntington-Whiteley  was a great granddaughter of Prince Leopold, The Duke of Albany, thus a great great granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She is also the younger sister of  Count Bertram Friedrich zu Castell-Rüdenhausen.

[fettiowi]

Love how my sister's reaction to blue eyes super sonic was "oh god hes GERMAN"

[manaosdeuwu]

is one of my nationalities german? no. but i wear sandals and flipflops with socks.