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1880s (early - estimated) Queen Louise wearing Russian Order of St. Catherine by ? | Grand Ladies
Queen Louise of Denmark in Russian court dress. She was the consort of Christian IX, and two of her daughters were Alexandra, queen of Edward VII of Great Britain, and Marie Feodorovna, Empress of Russia. Was painted to commemorate her daughter being crowned Empress of Russia in 1882?
Marie Leszczyńska - Wikipedia
Marie Leszczyńska, Queen of France (1703-1768), 1730 by Alexis-Simon Belle
Marie Leszczyńska and Dauphin Louis (Alexis-Simon Belle - )
Marie Leszczyńska and Dauphin Louis, 1730, Alexis-Simon Belle - The Athenaeum
1776 Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon Penthièvre, duchesse d'Orléans by Louis Alexandre Hesse after Charles Lepeintre (Versailles) | Grand Ladies
1776 Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon Penthièvre, duchesse d'Orléans by Louis Alexandre Hesse after Charles Lepeintre (Versailles) Photo - Gérard Blo. At the death of her brother, the prince de Lamballe, she became the wealthiest heiress in France prior to the French Revolution.Married Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, the "regicide" Philippe Égalité, and mother of France's last king, Louis Philippe, King of the French. Sister-in-law of the princesse de Lamballe.
Czar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Tsarskoe Selo Photograph - Antique Jewelry | Vintage Rings | Faberge Eggs
A very rare photograph of Alexandra Feodorovna on horseback, in a review of the Uhlan regiment that she was the colonel-in-chief of. She is with Grand Duke Michael Nicholaievich.
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Empress Xiaokemin (Wan Rong,) last Qing empress, China. She was married at 16 to Puyi, the final emperor in the Qing dynasty and would later become the empress of the puppet state Manchukuo in the 1930s and 1940s. She was an educated woman who was fluent in English and loved to write letters to her friends, read mystery novels, dabble in photography, and play the piano. She lived a very bizarre and cloistered existence controlled by the Japanese in Manchukuo and used opium to dull the loneli...
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Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, only child of Crown Prince Rudolf and Crown Princess Stephanie of Austria.
Queen Charlotte Sophia | Art UK
portrait of Queen Charlotte Sophia by Allan Ramsay, ca.1770. Oxford College, Anon II PD05. Well, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words...now, if only the past could talk!
the merriest harlot in the realm
List of Epic Queens (part 1/3): Hatshepsut / Nefertiti/ Artemisia of Caria/ Cleopatra VII/ Livia Augusta/ Agrippina Minor/ Boudica
Late Qing: The Empress Dowager Cixi rose from the position of concubine to become the most powerful woman in China, in a reign that lasted 47 years – from 1861 to 1908. Seen here as a young woman, Cixi had the fortune to bear the Xianfeng Emperor’s only male heir. After the death of the Emperor, Cixi ruled through her son, who was only five years old when his father died. Then, when the boy Emperor himself died at an early age, Cixi installed her nephew to the throne and ruled through him.
The last king and queen of Burmese, Queen Supayalat next to King Thibaw Min and her sister Princess Supayaji
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The Kingdom of Kush lay to the South of Egypt and is famous for its more pointed pyramids. Several Queens have ruled Kush, but one of the greatest is certainly Amanirenas. Ruling for about 30 years, she led her forces against the Romans in Egypt. After initial success, the Romans pushed back. A peace treaty was then signed, by terms favorable to Kush. A contemporary of Cleopatra, Amanirenas was probably blind in one eye.