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Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia. 
Queen Marie of Romania. 
graceandfamily: Princess Grace arriving at the Monte-Carlo Opera, 1956.
royaland: “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”Edgar Allan Poe Astrid , queen of Belgium

“The Queen later said that it was a blessing that her husband had not been there - “I knew that all hell would break loose.”

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The Queen talking about Prince Philip not being present when Michael Fagan broke into her bedroom in 1982.  Many had questioned why the Duke wasn’t there to protect her; he was said to be incandescent with rage after hearing of the security breach. Philip had slept in his dressing room as he was due to leave for an engagement at 6am that morning and did not wish to disturb the Queen.

Monarch: The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II, By Robert Lacey

(via queenandherduke)

(via royaltyspeaking)

The Duke of Edinburgh (fifth from the right) pictured with his family in the early 1940’s
historysquee: Queen Victoria as Philippa of Hainault  By an unknown artist Colour lithograph, 1842 This picture shows Queen Victoria dressed as Queen Philippa, wife of Edward III, for the Plantagenet ball she held in 1842.
Princess Charlotte of Prussia, later Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen. 
spanishroyals: Luis Fernando de Orléans y Borbón, Infante of Spain since birth until his cousin King Alfonso XIII revoked his privileges and title of Infante in 1924, was the son of the Infanta Eulalia, daughter of Queen Isabel II and Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera and grandson of Louis Philippe I. Luis Fernando was born in the Royal Palace in 1888 and died in Paris in 1945. He led a notorious life and was involved in drug and even a murder scandals, married a wealthy widow several years his elder against her family’s wishes and died in disgrace. 
thestuffoffairytales: The beautiful Prince George, Duke of Kent, fifth child and fourth son of George V and Queen Mary of the United Kingdom.