Royal history

Hulu's "The Great" offers an irreverent, ahistorical take on the Russian empress' life. This is the real history behind the period comedy

Portrait by Arthur Trevethin Nowell, 1927. During her time, Queen Mary - the consort of George V, grandmother of the present queen - oversaw a great wealth of jewelry being added to the already brimming royal coffers of the United Kingdom. Both in the collection of "crown jewels", and those held in private possession of the Windsor ladies. Many pieces were new-made, other were redesigns of earlier pieces. And she also purchased important pieces from those royals who had not fared so well…

She was just 5th in the line of succession, but a series of historical vagaries put the princess on the world’s most powerful throne.

A Fashionably Dressed Young Woman in the Arcade of the Palais-Royal

Made famous by 'The Empress' on Netflix, Sisi and her missing garment provoked an imperial hunt over centuries.

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1937 Norma Shearer

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, 1906. Because apparently I didn't color it last year & it's so much more fun than studying I think I sharpen... Empress Alexandra

Just as the Victorian era is incorrectly portrayed as a period of demureness, misconceptions about the British monarchy – specifically, Queen Victoria – ...