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16/05/2025

A propos d'hier soir.

16/05/2025

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914) and his daughter Sophie (1901-1990).

The marriage of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie Chotek was recognized as morganatic, so the children of this marriage had no right to the Austrian throne and did not bear the title of Archduke.

Children were brought up in modesty, emphasizing that they are ordinary people. Sophie and her brothers grew up in love and care, their childhood was happy until the moment of their parents' murder.

This assassination triggered the First World War, thus Sophie and her two brothers are sometimes described as the first orphans of the First World War.

Franz Ferdinand's last words were "Sophie, Sophie! Don't die! Live for our children!"

I will be very happy if you name the artist who created this wonderful portrait.

16/05/2025

Portrait of Her Majesty, Queen Olga Konstantinovna of Greece (née Grand Duchess of Russia), and her sister-in-law, Alexandra, then Princess of Wales, c. 1885.

One of her last letters to King George V, Queen Olga sent her warmest, most loving wishes for her nephew's 61st birthday, telling him: "God bless you, my darling, beloved sunbeam, and let us meet soon again. What joy that would be! ### Give my best love to darling May [Queen Mary] & your children. Ever your devoted, faithful old owl, Aunt Olga." The letter was a touching reminder of the kind, selfless, down-to-earth woman who had been a Romanov Grand Duchess, became Queen of the Hellenes, and the mother and grandmother of Greece's Kings. Those words betrayed nothing of the terrible anguish Olga had endured in her lifetime: the murder of her husband, the vicious vilification of her sons, the premature deaths of two children and a grandson, the cruel murders of her Romanov relatives.

Added to this was the destruction of the Russia she knew under the Communists and the turmoil that engulfed Greece, all of which resulted in the violent deaths of countless Russians and Greeks. Yet through all the torments, Olga never wavered in her faith. She bowed to the inscrutable ways of Providence, in fact, she cleaved to her faith, knowing that she could not endure the pain without God's help Such was the message she wrote to a friend in 1923. "There is the holy God's will for everything Amidst the countless trials I have the unwavering belief that everything that God grants us is for the best. You can only believe in this, it is otherwise impossible to comprehend rationally."

To the end of her days, Olga always remembered her native land and its tragic fate. These sentiments were encapsulated in one of Queen Olga's letters: "My heart aches... Everything, everything is gone with no return... My brothers are gone. I am the only one remaining in my family like a miserable fragment of the past."

16/05/2025

𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚’𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬

The ”revenge dress” was an evening gown worn by Diana, Princess of Wales to a 1994 dinner at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. The garment has been interpreted as having been worn by Diana ”in revenge” for the televised admission of adultery by her husband Charles III, then Prince of Wales.

The dress, an off-the-shoulder black silk evening gown, was designed by Christina Stambolian. Stambolian compared Diana’s choice of black to the black swan Odile in Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake, saying that Diana ”chose not to play the scene like Odette, innocent in white. She played it like Odile. She was clearly angry.”

Diana had owned the dress for three years before she wore it, fearing it was ”too daring”. The dress cost £900 (equivalent to £2,056 in 2021). Anna Harvey, Diana’s former stylist, said that Diana ”wanted to look a million dollars ... and she did”.

The dress was interpreted as part of Diana’s couture of ”revenge” following the breakdown of her marriage to Charles after years of having ”snippets of a seductive glamour hidden by a proper royal purity”. Caroline McCauley wrote that instead of ”cowering in shame” following Charles’s admission, ”Diana arrived in a figure-hugging black silk dress with a pearl choker necklace, black pumps, and scarlet lipstick and nail polish”.

Georgina Howell, in her 1998 book Diana, Her Life in Fashion, wrote that the dress was ”possibly the most strategic dress ever worn by a woman in modern times”, further describing it as a ”devastating wisp of black chiffon” with which Diana ”flipped her husband clean off the front pages” following the broadcast of the programme. ”The Thrilla He Left to Woo Camilla” was the headline of The Sun the following day.

16/05/2025

October 27, 1889: Sophia of Prussia (1870-1932), married Constantine I of Greece (1868-1923).
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-Sophie of Prussia
-Constantine I
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Détail de la façade du château.

15/05/2025

Portrait of Isabel Maria de Alcântara,Duchess of Goiás (1824-1898) by unknown artist.

She was a daughter of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil and Domitila de Castro.

She was legitimized, or recognized as a daughter of the Emperor, on 24 May 1826, by a decree who granted her the noble title of Duchess of Goiás and the right to be treated as "Her Highness, The Duchess of Goiás".

In 1829, her father sent her to study in France. In 1831 Emperor Pedro I abdicated the throne of Brazil and left for Europe Isabel Maria had a warm relationship with his second wife Amelia.

Pedro died on 24 September 1834 and the task of raise Isabel Maria was assumed by his widow and her mother; in his will, the Duke gave his daughter a share of his estate.The Duchess of Goiás had been separated from Domitila de Castro at such a young age that she had no recollection of her biological mother and therefore she had always considered Amélie of Leuchtenberg and Dowager Duchess Augusta of Leuchtenberg as her natural mother and grandmother.

In 1843 Isabel Maria married Ernst Joseph Johann Fischler von Treuberg, 2nd Count of Treuberg and Baron of Holzen.

15/05/2025

"One occasion Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna related to me the story of the outrage at the Winter Palace, when the attempt to blow up the Czar Alexander II in 1880 nearly succeeded: 'I must commence by telling you that the Czar attached great importance to punctuality, and all members of the family were expected to assemble for dinner before he made his appearance, which happened, invariably, as the dinner-hour was striking. The anarchists evidently timed the explosion to occur during this early part of dinner, relying on the strict punctuality of the Czar and allowing about ten minutes' grace to make sure. On the afternoon of that dreadful day one of my children was taken ill. I was very much upset and distressed in consequence. When reminded that it was time to dress for dinner I lothed to leave the bedside of the little sufferer, who supplicated me to stay, and I lingered on.

You cannot imagine the feeling of relief I experienced when I remarked that the Czar was not in the room. It was the first time I had known him to be late, and, most fortunately for me, it was also the only occasion I had been unpunctual myself. Ten minutes after the usual time the Czar made his appearance, and it then transpired that he had not noticed the time passing whilst discussing with the French ambassador. We had reached the second antechamber, and the Czar was approaching the open door of the dining-room, and at this moment the most awful explosion rent the rent the air. The dining-room vanished from our view, and we were plunged into impenetrable darkness. We were stunned and terror-stricken by the shock. Many were thrown down and a poisonous gas filled the room, suffocating us. How can I possibly describe the agony of mind we suffered, expecting, as we did, at any moment another explosion beneath us! The impending fear almost made our hearts stop beating as, silent and motionless, we awaited our doom. When the explosion died away, a dead silence succeeded. Presently out of the darkness came the clear, calm voice of the Czar: 'My children, let us pray!' The sound of his voice, relieved the awful strain on our nerves, and brought comfort to our hearts".

15/05/2025

Royals at the wedding of Ernest Il, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg to Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 1896.

Left to right, first photo: Prince George, Duke of York, Princess Mary, Duchess of York, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, Victoria Melita, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Romania, and Marie, Crown Princess of Romania.

Left to right, second photo: Prince George, Princess Mary, Crown Princess Marie, Crown Prince Ferdinand, Grand Duchess Victoria Melita, and Grand Duke Ernest Louis.

Third photo: Grand Duchess Victoria Melita and her sister Crown Princess Marie.

15/05/2025

La rue de la Paroisse.

15/05/2025

Portrait of Fredericka of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1715-1775) by Antoine Pesne, 1740–46.

She was a daughter of Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst. In 1734 she married Prince Johann Adolf of Saxe-Weissenfels, later Johann Adolf II, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels.

15/05/2025

"1904. At St. Petersburg, a 301 cannon salute announced the birth of a male heir to the reigning Tsar, the first such salute in two centuries. Maria Feodorovna's grandson, on whom so much hope lay, was christened in great pomp at the chapel of Peterhof in the presence of his godmother, the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, and Queen Olga of Greece. Marie Feodorovna entered the chapel escorted by her favorite brother-in-law, Grand Duke Alexei. Immediately behind came Queen Olga, escorted by Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich. Both women wore impressive trains that were 9 feet (2,7m) long. Two pages carried the Empress's train, but Olga had only one page at that, F. S. Olferev. Olferev, who carried Olga's ermine wrap too, could not cope. As he recounted. "I was attempting to keep the train from catching on something and to keep it out of the path of Grand Duke Vladimir when suddenly the wrap I was carrying caught on the handle of a door we were passing and the lace inside it split a little. I quickly freed the wrap and went on farther. However, to my horror and shame, the blasted lace inside the ermine wrap attached itself to the next door and split further." The mishap caught the attention of Vladimir: "Olga, your page is splitting you apart!" The Queen ignored. According to Olferev, "I was saved by the fact that she was used to the Grand Duke's teasing and did not believe him."

Olferev expected a severe reprimand for the mishap. His anxiety grew after the christening ceremony, when an official announced: "Queen Olga of Greece would like to see her page." "Queen Olga's page!" came the resounding call through the ranks of pages. Olferev stepped out, believing himself a "condemned man." When the nervous page entered the room where the imperial family had congregated, he was surprised to find the imperial crib with the baby tsarevich in it. She approached Olferev saying, "I would like you to see our heir." The astonished page had his chance to look closely at His Imperial Highness, Tsesarevich Alexei, then Queen Olga led Olferev out of the imperial rooms herself and in her kindly way said, "I hope to see you again soon." A gracious act from a gracious Queen.""

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