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The Windsors / Pictures

« on: November 06, 2015, 08:32:09 AM »

What pictures (after 1861) have the most of Queen Victoria's children together - and which have the most of their spouses?

I know Tuxen's Jubilee painting has everybody who was still alive - not Alice and Leopold.

But I'm really looking for more photographs, though I don't mind if anyone shares paintings/drawings.

I've seen the group in Coburg 1865.

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Nicholas II / Re: Question

« on: October 30, 2015, 01:23:21 PM »

Never mind I found the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=71&v=dGinH09s3eI

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Nicholas II / Looking for historical film...

« on: October 30, 2015, 12:49:38 PM »

I didn't really know what thread to put this in but...
I saw a video on Youtube once that had a fuller version - all of this film and more - but I can't find it.
Does anyone know where it is?
thanks

https://33.media.tumblr.com/9b62600fb8963021b8c75d8a3721e2fd/tumblr_molwhnH5yr1r33xaxo2_250.gif
https://33.media.tumblr.com/06948e85d38c2ba3fa41091095752bd5/tumblr_nn9gxxEEDH1skwqjto2_r1_500.gif
https://33.media.tumblr.com/53ae480a29f75532510e4a06bfd72b15/tumblr_mu99wrvxxI1r33xaxo1_250.gif

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Nicholas II / Who are Nicholas II's Godparents?

« on: October 26, 2015, 12:10:19 PM »

Does anyone have a list of Nicholas II's Godparents?
thanks

I've searched on hear and haven't found a complete list.

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Olga Nicholaievna / question about a letter

« on: October 23, 2015, 06:43:16 PM »

What "nieces" are referred to in this letter?

Olga Nikolaevna to Olga Alexandrovna
21 June 1917

My darling, dear Godmother,

Am terribly touched by your sweet letter and heartfelt words. I wanted to have a heart?to?heart talk with you when you were with us in Kiev, but there wasn't the opportunity.

Poor Mama is terribly bored; can't at all get used to the new life and the circumstances here, although on the whole we can all be grateful that we will be together and in the Crimea. So horribly sad to think about our dear nieces and their parents and about our homeland. Little Dolls!! Now it's doubly hard for you, my darling Aunt Olga. May God preserve you.

A kiss to you and Mitia. Love you sincerely and with all my heart.

Your loving Goddaughter,
Olga

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The Hesse-Darmstadts (Hesse and by Rhine) / Picture Identification

« on: October 18, 2015, 08:11:08 PM »

Does anyone know who's who in this picture??

??, the two small boys are the Hesse princes, ??, ??, is that Maria or one of the other Russian girls?, ??,??, Alexandra Feodorovna, Margarita, Alexei, Theodora

Is the boy to the left of Alix Dickie of Battenberg??

1910 in Hesse

http://41.media.tumblr.com/5d4fc082b4519b91734ada60e45e8534/tumblr_n6m1dhg2zF1rrnhz4o1_500.jpg

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Maria Nicholaievna / Pictures of Dickie and Maria

« on: October 18, 2015, 07:26:21 PM »

What pictures are there that Maria and Louis "Dickie" Battenberg/Mountbatten are both in?
Thanks

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BeNeLux Royalty / Queen Wilhelmina's Godparents

« on: October 12, 2015, 10:29:10 PM »

Does anyone know who Queen Wilhelmina's Godparents were?
thanks

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Alexandra Feodorovna / Letter during engagement

« on: October 08, 2015, 11:16:13 PM »

Does anyone know what is being refered to in these letters? They are quoted in "A lifelong Passion" on pages 61 and 63 and in "king, Kaiser and Tsar" and "The Last Tsarina". Dates are in old style.

From Nicholas April 23 1894 "...I see my sweet girly-dear looking back at me, sometimes with a sly look, which makes me think of a certain house on the road from Coburg to Ketchendorf on the left!!!"

From Alix April 26 1894
"You naughty thing, how dare you say that about the sly look and the house on the left! Be ashamed of yourself, I wish I were there to pinch you for it."

What happened in that "house on the left?" In "the last Tsarina" it said "they shared an erotic interlude". Alix was a virgin when they married wasn't she?

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