King George V, 19 years old. This man, gorgeous all his life ❤️
The future King George III, age 9, reading in a blanket fort in 1747
Greville Tiara, Boucheron, 1921-1953
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1954)
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1995)
Queen Camilla (2023)
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2014
Norman R. Morrison was an American anti-war activist. On November 2, 1965, Morrison doused himself in kerosene and set himself on fire below the office of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon to protest United States involvement in the Vietnam War, leading to his death.
On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington. Bushnell said that he was protesting against "what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers" and declared that he "will no longer be complicit in genocide", after which he doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself on fire
"On the 21st of April, 1926, a great joy came into the Royal Family with the birth of a daughter to the Duke and Duchess of York. She was named Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, but His Majesty (George V) when he heard what she was to be called, said laughingly: “She will soon be Betty; no little girl can keep up the dignity of Elizabeth,” and “Betty” she became.
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"Well into the 1920s Missy still kept a crystal ball given to her by George from his courting days. And whenever she handled it, an enigmatic smile lit up her face"
DAVID OAKES as GEORGE PLANTAGENET THE WHITE QUEEN (2013) 彡 1.02 'The Price of Power'
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