Posted by Trinity on November 3, 2009, 5:42 am, in reply to "Prince Michael of Kent’s christening set included in £1m heirloom auction"
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Would love to get my hands on that auction catalogue! Or any of the items being sold. Unfortunately, the royal coffers are depleted at the moment!
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: There are also albums of photographs taken
: at the end of the 19th century by Princess
: Marina’s mother of informal gatherings of
: royals from across Europe.
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: The last Tsar, Nicholas II, who was murdered
: by the Bolsheviks in 1918 along with his
: wife and children, is pictured looking
: through a telescope and reviewing a military
: regiment.
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: William Bortrick, of Burke’s Peerage, who is
: writing a book on the royal families of
: Europe, said: “The photographs give a
: vignette of royal life and it’s pretty
: important because after 1914 everything
: changed.
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: “In 1913 the Kaiser’s daughter Victoria
: married the Duke of Brunswick of the House
: of Hanover and it was the last time Europe’s
: royals got together.
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: “Lots of royals lost their thrones after
: this date so these photographs are a glimpse
: into a world that was soon to end.”
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