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Victoria Melita with daughter
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Nice heavily beaded dress!! It reminds me more of later 1920s heavily beaded dresses, but she looked lovely in it.I don't think I had seen a picture of her in this dress before.

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At least the Diana/ Charles disaster showed the royals that those kind of arranged, semi arranged marriages were no longer suitable in the modern era. Back in the day, Diana would have been like Alexandra and Charles like Edward VII, is my feeling.But in the modern era, that wasn't going to work, and the marriage collapsed, as it most likely would have, Camilla or no.They didn't know each other well, and Diana was so young and was in love, Charles was older and wiser true, but he felt forced to go along to some extent though I think he was going to make the best of it, and try.After all, he did not know her completely,and she didn't know what she was getting herself into.It was a recipe for disaster, and while a more compatible couple could have made it work ( marrying not knowing each other that well, semi arranged match) even in the modern era, ( George V and Mary of Teck was a arranged marriage, basically and it went great), Diana and Charles were just too different to make it work.

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Having Fun! / Re: Polka Dot Blouses
« on: December 10, 2010, 01:55:01 AM »
Interesting thread.It reminded me of how in the '80s Diana, Princess Of Wales popularized the wearing of polka dot clothing. She even had polka dot high heels!

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Yes, there are a lot of not so great books on Princess Diana. My advice would be to read as many of them as you can though. I have read pretty much all of them. I agree a lot of those books by people like Simone Simmons are hardly very accurate- but I find, if you have the time, it is best to read all of them, over the course of several years, just to see what's out there. If you don't have the time, then stick with the more official biographies and skip the more sketchy ones like Simone Simmons and others.

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The Windsors / Re: Princess Diana - Part 2
« on: August 08, 2010, 08:05:37 AM »

more pictures of diana`s first pregnancy






Does anyone know Diana is with in this picture?

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I'm so happy to hear this!!! This wonderful site very much deserves this honor.

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I enjoyed this book, because it was a first hand rather than just a biographer's account, although the Vorres biography also offers a lot of Olga's perspective, too. Royal memoirs of that time were not supposed to be tell alls, at least in the way we expect memoirs to be today. So I don't see the style of this memoir that Alixz refers to as a reflection of Olga A herself, but rather of a reflection of the times, much as the last poster says. Olga A's memoirs here are not that much diffferent than the style of other royal memoirs, although the memoirs of both Marie P, daughter of Grand Duke Paul, and the memoirs of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovitch, were more colorful than Olga's. Okga was more revealing of her true opinions, thoughts, and feelings about her past/ people in it, when she talked to Vorres than she is here.. but that's not surprising. The thing that stood out most about this book to me was her account of her escape out of Russia after the Revolution and all that she had to go through, along with her family.

What was interesting to me was how much she mentions intuition in this part of the book, as she describes how she and her family had to make choices about where to go next after the Revolution had happened. It seems she relied a lot on inutuition during this difficult oart of her life story. That made me wonder about Nicholas II and his immediate family, and how much they relied on intuition during their last days. They, unlike Olga, could not use intuition to decide where to go next- they were imprisoned. But, I wonder, and wondered more after reading this book, just how much intuition told them about what would theor final fate.I liked this book, and think it's useful to read along with the Vorres book. This book's shortcomings, (like where Olga A seems to pass over or gloss over things and focus on the positive, without mentioning aspects of the truth that were negative), seem to be in line with other royal memoirs of tha time.

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I enjoyed her previous 2 books, so I am very much looking forward to this one..

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No, I don't think that any such scene happened. I thought, (but it has been awhile since I read the book, so I have to admit I don't remember specifics), that Imperial Dancer romanticized the Nicholas II/ MK affair a bit, but certainly not to the extent of that scene in Romanovy.

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At what point did Gleb Botkin come iinto contact with Anna Anderson?  OPbviously someone who had intimate knowledge of GD Anastasia coached Anna Anderson well.  Was it Gleb?
  No matter how she was discredited and called a fraud,  Anna Anderson's life improved well beyond what a factory worker could hope for.

First off, I'm very excited to hear about this new book by King and Wilson. I know this is a bit off topic for this thread, but a book that has I recall- I read it awhile ago now- some info on the Gleb Botkin/ AA thing, is At the Court of Anna Anderson, a book published in 2007 or so. If you haven't read it, Constantinople, you should. I myself didn't think all that highly of that book but I recall it mentions Gleb Botkin. Sorry for going off topic..

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Having Fun! / Re: What do you look like ?
« on: July 24, 2010, 06:22:38 PM »
You sound lovely.  where are you from

Decorah, Iowa, US.. very small town in Iowa.

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To go back to Ashanti's post from last fall, Sept 24,  the screen shots of Grand Duke Andrei and Mathilde, were did those come from? Just curious.

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Having Fun! / Re: What do you look like ?
« on: June 28, 2010, 01:28:23 PM »
I am about 5'6, very naturally thin, 23, almost shoulder length light brown hair, currently dyed red, and brown eyes. I have never figured out how to post pics, or I would post a current pic, I did post one pic in another thread about 5 years ago and I look pretty much the same today. People always tell me I look more like 19 or 20 than 23/ 24 (in a month).

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No, they don't as much. The images of royalty, particularly in the Scandinavian countries, I've read, have become much more ordinary and like the rest of the people. That's a big contrast to Imperial Russia where the image of the splendor of the Czars was important. Victoria Melita is wearing very heavy jewels here. Also, less is more seems to be the opinion of jewelry in the modern era, whereas around the turn of the 19th century, especially in royal circles jewels where worn in profusion.

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The Windsors / Re: Cousin Toria
« on: April 09, 2010, 06:44:42 PM »
Thanks! I finally looked them both up in wikipedia, since the info was not as easy to find searching here on the forum. So he married Marie Louise about 4 years after he been interested in possibly marrying Toria. Such a pity we don't know Alexandra's reply to that letter. She always wanted to keep her children close though. By that time (1896) Louise was long married , she had married in 1889, and 1896 was the year Maud married on July 22. I would be curious, was that letter written before July 22, 1896 (date of marriage of Maud) or after? If after, then Alexandra had all the more reason not to pursue this possible marriage for her daughter, who was the only one left to her. Even if before Maud's marriage, it was the same year Maud married, so Alexandra likely didn't pursue this possible marriage for Toria. Maud's being soon married or recently married in 1896 may have given Max of Baden some hope regarding his possible courtship of Toria.

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