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Alexandra Feodorovna / Re: Removal of thread "The Empress Alexandra Fights Back"

« on: April 10, 2015, 10:02:52 AM »

Any news of the book yet?

Happy Easter from Greece!

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Their World and Culture / Re: Electricity In Victorian Houses

« on: April 10, 2015, 10:01:27 AM »

There is a picture of Nicholas with one of the big 4 engine IM aircraft pre _WW I. I believe he gave the designer Igor Sikorsky a gold watch. As for electricity at the palace I think it was first installed under Tsar Alexander III. At balls were his wife Maria Fed wanted to dance all night and he wanted to go to bed he just went our and turned the newly installed electric lights out! At least that's what I remember reading somewhere I will back with the sources.

I thought he used to sent the musicians away one by one!

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The Byzantine Heritage / Re: Agnes of France

« on: April 10, 2015, 09:50:28 AM »

Agnes is the subject of the historical novel Agnes of France (1980) by Greek writer Kostas Kyriazis (b. 1920). The novel describes the events of the reigns of Manuel, Alexios and Andronikos through her eyes. She is also part of the cast of the sequels Fourth Crusade (1981) and Henry of Hainaut (1984). All three have been in print in Greece since their first edition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_of_France,_Byzantine_Empress

You are right!

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Alexandra Feodorovna / Re: Empress Alexandra and Maria Feodorovna

« on: October 24, 2014, 12:21:25 PM »

Thank you Maria Sisi, I pretty much agree with your thoughts, but I still find it hard to see if the Russuan royal couple disliked young Alix only after her visits to Russia. I find it hard to realise how she was considered English and important enough to Queen Victoria to become e British sovereign but not so for the Russian throne. I think Alix herself was hurt when she realised she was not to see Nicholas at all in one of her visits to her sister in Russia.

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Alexandra Feodorovna / Re: Empress Alexandra and Maria Feodorovna

« on: October 22, 2014, 03:22:38 PM »

Having read almost all posts, there is one point I' d like to know more about, and that is what were the origins of the dislike Marie and Alexander III had for Alexandra F. from the beggining? Were they so good at judging a character from early on? Were there some kind of gossips from the court of Hesse about young Alix that reached the Russian court? Were they somehow aware of the danger of heamophilia? Why were they both so against the young princess in a way Queen Victoria obviously wasn' t? Or maybe the fact that QV favored Alix somehow was held against her by Marie and her sister? What do you think?

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The Greek Royal Family / Re: Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece and his family

« on: October 03, 2014, 11:10:00 AM »

I' m sorry if it has been asked and answered somewhere before, but I was thinking what would the correct title of Marie-Chantal be?

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Films and TV shows about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / Re: Edward The King

« on: July 13, 2014, 05:33:08 AM »

Yes!  There were two books released in 1974, about the time the TV series was originally shown.  The author was David Butler (who co-wrote the miniseries with John Gorrie).  They are titled Edward the Seventh: Prince of Hearts and Edward the Seventh: The Peacemaker.  The publisher was Futura Publications Limited.  

Maybe you could get them through Bookfinder or similar?    

Thank you very much, I'll try find the books!

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Servants, Friends and Retainers / Re: court physicians

« on: July 05, 2014, 03:02:46 AM »

Do we have any more information about the dentists perhaps?

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The Windsors / Re: Change of name to Windsor in 1917

« on: June 25, 2014, 03:42:51 PM »

It seems the new king of Spain is named ''of Spain AND Greece''!?

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The Hohenzollern / Re: The Saxe-Coburg, desd. of Prince Ferdinand and Antonia Kohary

« on: June 24, 2014, 01:46:31 PM »

I was consulting Wikipedia about Prince Leopold Clement and I noticed this on the ''talk'' page:

The text says that "marrying Rybicka would have forced [Leopold] to resign his officer's commission." It does not explain why. Were officers of his rank forbidden to marry? Would being married to a commoner cause a demotion in royal rank that would keep him from serving in that regiment? Were newlyweds forbidden from serving in combat, which his regiment was about to enter? Inquiring minds want to know. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 14:02, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

I am one of the inquiring minds, and I cannot answer your question. The source provides no explanation but appears to suggest that such a marriage would have been improper. I'll try asking at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities. Surtsicna (talk) 15:47, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Prince_Leopold_Clement_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha

Maybe someone here could help us with this one.

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The Habsburgs / Re: Crown Prince Rudolph--controversies, affairs & his death, Part II

« on: June 22, 2014, 06:28:01 AM »

Thank you very much, I also found this that might be of some help (it was for me):

http://levantineheritage.com/testi44.htm

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The Habsburgs / Re: Crown Prince Rudolph--controversies, affairs & his death, Part II

« on: June 21, 2014, 03:11:56 AM »

In Greece it's known that Mary Vetsera's mother was of the Baltazzi family, of Greek origins (Μπαλτατζής, from the island of Chios I believe), yet in the wikipedia I find the family reported as Italian. Could someone help me out with this maybe?

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The Greek Royal Family / Re: King Constantine II & Queen Anne-Marie - (nee Denmark)

« on: June 17, 2014, 01:17:35 PM »

According to a post on this Greek website (link below) there was an ugly incident this week involving Constantine and two bodyguards in Athens when he turned up at a coffee shop. When the patrons spotted him they began shouting what business did he have there and demanding he leave. At first he refused to leave, and it got bad, and people went to the kitchen looking for yogurt and tomatoes to throw at him and calling him a "mullah of Frederika" (God she really must be loathed.) He was hurried away in a limo.

Has anyone heard if this is true and any more about it? I can't find anything in the Greek media about it, but they all hate his guts, so it may not be published.

http://www.protothema.gr/greece/article/358956/video-to-klama-tou-glixbourg-gia-ton-patera-tou/

My dear bongo, welcome to the forum. Personally, I'd much avoid to reproduce any of the nonsense crap some ''editors'' try to sell with newspapers people buy only to get the gifts included (especially gas coupons). As about the opinion modern Greeks have of the royal family, unfortunately it's like the opinion we have on everything, superficial that is and full of stereotypes. Modern Greeks do not have the patience to riexamine their recent past and they much prefer an ancient one which they find more glorious and less painfull to their self image.

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The Greek Royal Family / Re: King George I & Queen Olga (nee Romanov) of Greece, Part II

« on: June 15, 2014, 02:34:26 PM »

In a TV documentary on the history of Tatoi on the NERIT (the new official public TV channel), it was mentioned that Queen Alexandra advised her brother King George I og Greece to abdicate and retire in England. It was the first time I heard something like that! Does anyone know something on this, perhaps? Had he accepted her offer his life would probably be safe and he would be a valuable advisor to hia son in the troubled times that were to follow the Balkan wars ...

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The Greek Royal Family / Re: Prince George of Greece & Princess Marie Bonaparte

« on: June 04, 2014, 02:52:04 PM »

Who knows what happened the fortune Marie inherited from her mother ... it was a big one, was it inherited by both her children?