Mary Earps was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire as she joined VIPs including Gladiator director Sir Ridley Scott and England legend Peter Shilton.
The John Lewis bridesmaid dress collection has nearly 70 elegant gowns in a range of colours and styles for your maid of honour and bridesmaids.
Her cortege departed from Chatsworth House - the family seat of the Devonshires and the place to which she devoted her life - just before midday today.
La duchessa di Cambridge, futura sovrana, avrebbe un segnale segreto per comunicare con il suo staff attraverso le sue clutch. Proprio come fa da anni la sovrana britannica
Step into the glamorous world of high fashion as the adorable poodles flaunt their style on the runway. You don't want to miss this parade!
O príncipe Louis, caçula da duquesa Kate Middleton, encantou ao mandar um beijo para Arhcie, filho da duquesa Meghan Markle.
REBECCA ENGLISH: Hunkered down on her heels, eyes red-rimmed as she studied the floral tributes and loving messages, the Countess of Wessex appeared lost in thought.
La duchessa di Cambridge, futura sovrana, avrebbe un segnale segreto per comunicare con il suo staff attraverso le sue clutch. Proprio come fa da anni la sovrana britannica
Commanding Officer of Number 1 Squadron , Wing Commander Stephen Chappell , gives details to Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge as she sits in the cockpit of a RAAF Super Hornet of 1 Squadron at...
La Regina e Carlo condividono gli auguri di compleanno per William, ma nelle foto Harry è stato cancellato. E Kate non manda alcun messaggio al marito.
Valerie Glassborow (pictured top right) was one of the 9,000 people who worked at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes during WW2.
Many will think it is a tribute to her application to the job that the Duchess of Cornwall has been awarded the Royal Victorian Order
The Duchess of Cambridge was spotted giggling as she tried out a 3D virtual reality headset and was gifted a sailing jacket for her daughter Princess Charlotte by well wishers.
Deborah Cavendish (AKA the The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire), is the youngest and last surviving member of the six Mitford sisters, and at 90 is publishing her memoirs
I’ve mentioned my love for SloDown Wines in the past, especially their Sexual Chocolate red blend (SO GOOD). I was excited last week to get to meet the founder of SloDown Wines, Brandon Allen, at the Neighbor’s Shoppe. I was lucky enough to taste test all their wines and learn a little bit more about [Read On]
La duchessa di Cambridge, futura sovrana, avrebbe un segnale segreto per comunicare con il suo staff attraverso le sue clutch. Proprio come fa da anni la sovrana britannica
It took the duchess of Cambridge a long time to be "in control and in command of what she's doing," according to royal expert Andrew Morton.
Nina and Xenia, the two daughters of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess George née Princess Marie of Greece and Denmark, painted in London in 1915. The brushwork of the hair, especially, is exquisite. *** Princess Marie and Grand Duke George, probably at the time of their engagement. Princess Marie of Greece and Denmark (3 March 1876, Athens - 14 December 1940, Athens), was the fifth child and second daughter of George I, King of the Hellenes, and Queen Olga, née Grand Duchess of Russia; through her mother she was related to the Romanovs, through her father many of the other royal families of Europe. Though she had not a drop of Greek blood, she was always fiercely attached to the country of her birth and was resistant to making a dynastic marriage which would mean she would have to live elsewhere. But one of her Russian cousins, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich, fell in love with her and, though she made it clear that the feelings were not reciprocal, he persisted. He first asked for her hand in 1896, but it was not until four years later that they were married. They took up residence in an apartment in the Mikhailovskoe Palace, the home of the Grand Duke's father outside of St. Petersburg. They would have two daughters, Princess Nina Georgievna (20 June 1901, Mikhailovskoe - 27 February 1974, Wellfleet, Massachusetts), and Princess Xenia Georgievna (22 August 1903, Mikhailovskoe - 17 September 1965, Glen Cove, New York). In 1905, the family moved to a small, newly built palace in the Crimea. It was called "Harax"and designed to the Grand Duchess' taste - and as close to Greece as she could make it. George was a devoted father, but his wife never grew to love him as he had hoped she would. Increasing estranged from her husband, unhappy in Russia, she began to spend more time abroad with her daughters, ostensibly for the girl's health but perhaps more to distance herself from her husband and her life in Russia. The three of them were in England, in the spa town of Harrogate, at the beginning of World War I. They would never see their husband and father again. Marie and George on their wedding day in Corfu, 30 April 1900. With baby Nina at Mikhailovskoe. The family at Harax. Circa 1914. Circa 1914 and later inscribed, "1915 Harrogate". *** 1916. At first choosing not to return to Russia and eventually unable to, the Grand Duchess did what so many royal ladies did in time of war: she established a hospital for the wounded. She opened the first one, but soon found it too small and acquired another, larger building. Eventually, she founded and ran five hospitals in Harrogate which, by the end of the war, had treated upwards of 100,000 soldiers. The no-nonsense, very hands-on Grand Duchess - she actively nursed as well - was immensely popular with the soldiers and is still remembered in the town in North Yorkshire. The last year of the war coincided with the Bolshevik takeover in Russia. By the summer of 1918, the murders of the Tsar and his family and other Romanovs had begun, and Grand Duke George, along with a brother and a cousin, were arrested. They endured very poor conditions for several months, but George was able to smuggle out frequent letters to his wife; she tried to buy his freedom from the authorities, but was unsuccessful. At the end of January - a little over two months after the Armistice - in the dead of night and with temperatures almost twenty degrees below zero, the three grand dukes were taken to St. Petersburg's Peter and Paul Fortress. Joined by another cousin, Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich - so ill he to be carried on a stretcher - all four were placed before an open trench - already containing thirteen bodies - and shot. At left, the Grand Duchess and her daughters. *** The Grand Duchess' nickname was Minny, her daughter Xenia's was Tommy. Princess Nina on her wedding day. Princess Nina and Prince Paul Chavchavadze after their wedding. Princess Nina married Prince Paul Alexandrovich Chavchavadze - a descendant of the last king of Georgia - in London in 1922. They had one child, Prince David Chavchavadze, born there two years later. In 1927 the family of three moved to the United States and settled in New York. In 1939 they bought a home in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Princess Nina was an artist, her husband worked as an author; he wrote five books and translated several others. Their son, Prince David Chavchavadze, served with the U.S. Army during World War II and, thanks in part to his knowledge of Russian, eventually became a CIA officer. After his retirement, he wrote his memoirs and published those of his grandmother, Grand Duchess George, as well as a book about the grand dukes of Russia. Xenia married William Bateman Leeds in Paris in 1921; the bride was eighteen, the groom just turned nineteen. Leeds was the son and heir of the fabulously wealthy widow, Mrs. Nancy Leeds, who had married Prince Christopher of Greece - the bride's uncle - the year before. The couple went on to be a popular mainstay of New York's Long Island high society; their estate, Kenwood, was in Oyster Bay. Their only child, a daughter, Nancy, was born in 1925. Two years later Xenia became very involved with Anna Anderson, the Polish woman we now know was posing as - or truly believed she was - the Grand Duchess Anastasia, the daughter of the last Tsar. She came to live at Kenwood, though she caused such turmoil in the household that she would eventually be asked to leave. Disagreements about Anderson were a contributing factor to the breakup of her marriage to Leeds; they divorced in 1930. Xenia remarried in 1946 to Herman Jud. Princess Xenia on her wedding day. Princess Xenia and William Leeds after their wedding. Their mother, herself, remarried in 1922, three years after her husband's murder. Her second husband was Periklis Ioannidis, a Greek admiral. According to her grandson, they had met two years previously when the Grand Duchess traveled back to Greece on board a destroyer that Ioannidis was commanding. Though certainly not an "equal" marriage, it appears that the union was accepted in the royal family. And it must have been gratifying to her that she had married a citizen of her beloved Greece. They were still married when she died at the age of sixty-four in Athens. The Grand Duchess and her husband Periklis Ioannidis, circa 1930s.
Britain's Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall arrives to meet members of the emergency services who were on duty the night of the terror attack at London Bridge and Borough market, at the Central...
The Duchess of Sussex's senior royal official has broken cover on the explosive bullying claims that first rocked Kensington Palace in 2021 - and TOM BOWER says more will emerge.
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