King Felipe And Queen Letizia Visit The Gandia Town Hall After Attending The Delivery Of "Investigation

The True Sweetheart by the Brothers Grimm

Arthur Rackham Illustrations

“The True Sweetheart: “The third time, she wore the star-dress which sparkled at every step.”

Emergency protest in San Francisco 2/13/24

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i still cannot get it out of my head that a police officer pointed a gun and screamed "get on the ground" repeatedly when faced with a young man burning alive. its been like 12h since i saw the video and it keeps coming back to me. you literally could not ever make this up

if someone wrote this scene as a political metaphor ppl would roll their eyes, as if as if as if. and it just happened. the arm of the state that holds a gun knows nothing but killing even when faced with death itself

"The Vladimir Tiara" - HM Queen Elizabeth II

Purchased in the 1920s by her grandmother, Queen Mary of Teck, from The Grand Duchess Vladimir (Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, a German princess, who married Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, a son of Emperor Alexander II, in the 1870s). 

The tiara can be worn with or without drops. Above the three versions:

- without drops

- with pearl drops

- with emerald drops (from the Cambridge emerald collection used to create the Delhi Durbar parure)

"According to the account written in the 1920s by an American journalist, Mabel Potter Daggett, George and Missy’s Malta romance actually went as far as to a series of kisses, the most important supposedly occurring on the occasion of Missy’s 14th birthday party. She was still ‘‘a flat little girl with golden hair hanging down her back.” But for the party, she’d graduated into her first bustle and hung a string of pink coral around her neck. Catching sight of Missy alone in a San Antonio gallery, George is supposed to have said, “I say, Missy, my word but you’re pretty,” then “caught her in his arms and kissed her.” There were more kisses to follow,” continued Mrs. Daggett, “for it was first love that had occurred to both.”

Rare photo of George V in 1913

(I hope King Charles III will release one day rare photos of his ancestors, especially of George and Mary, and why not, their home movies too)

Gloucester Cathedral, England