Edward VII

Announcement

I'm going to hospital tomorrow. Blogging will resume when it resumes.

Leopold I, King of the Belgians

Haakon VII, King of Norway, and Queen Maud

Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Princess of Prussia

Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

He took such an active interest in his court theater that he's considered the first modern theatrical director.

Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Queen of Hanover

With her daughter Mary.

Augustus III, King of Poland, Elector of Saxony

Note the teacup.

Maria Josefa of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria

Mother of the Bl. Emperor Karl.

House of Wettin

Albert of Saxony, Duke of Teschen

c1760

Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia

Robert I, King of Scotland

(Photo Credit)

Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg, Queen of Spain

Princess Beatrice

Youngest child of Queen Victoria.

Marie Antoinette of Austria, Queen of France

Elizabeth I

The Armada portrait. This was in celebration of the defeat of an attempt to place England under a foreign tyranny. That's a fact that should never be forgotten, in spite of what some internet twits say.

Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany

Then King of Prussia, on the right, riding with the artist Franz Kruger. 1836.

Marie Feodorovna, Empress of Russia

Sophie Dorothea of Wurttemberg, wife of Paul I.

Nicholas I, King of Montenegro

Kamehameha II, King of Hawaii

Day Off

Just not up to dealing with it today.

Elizabeth I

Cixi, Dowager Empress of China

She loved mugging for the camera.

Consequently, there's an enormous number of pictures of her.

She was spared the knowledge that the last photograph taken of her would show a badly decomposed corpse. I'm not posting that one. It was taken after her tomb was robbed as part of the complete collapse of order that usually follows a switch to a republican form of government. As my grandmother always said, democracy is like boiled chicken. The scum rises to the top.

Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands

George Topou V, King of Tonga

Fuad I, King of Egypt

Gustav III, King of Sweden

Unberto I, King of Italy

Albert I, Prince of Monaco

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of the United Kingdom

With he two eldest sons.

Louis XVIII, King of France

Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil

Sir Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharajah of Kapurthala

Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia