Tuesday, March 18, 2014
blog update
Moving tomorrow. Virgin Media tell me I'll be reconnected by the 26th (sigh) so see you then. Going for a break back on the 6th April.
Monday, March 17, 2014
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
1911- Photograph of Queen Mary
1911- Photograph of Queen Mary, standing in full length portrait and wearing State Robes for the Opening of Parliament together with full mourning dress for Edward VII. She faces the viewer and wears Queen Victoria’s Koh-I-Noor diadem, earrings, two large bow brooches and Crown Collet necklace. Cullinans I and II are worn as a brooch on the Garter sash and at her neck she wears a seven row diamond necklace.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Mafalda (1934). Leonard Campbell Taylor
Princess Mafalda of Savoy was married to Queen Victoria’s Great Grandson and was the daughter of the Italian King Victor Emmanuel III. During WW II, Adolf Hitler believed she was working against the war effort; he called her the “blackest carrion in the Italian royal house.” She was imprisoned and died at the Buchenwald concentration camp.