维多利亚女王和她的家人，包括爱德华七世国王、沙皇尼古拉二世等
1894年，德国科堡一场婚礼上的维多利亚女王及其家族成员，包括爱德华七世国王、尼古拉二世沙皇、亚历山德拉皇后、威廉二世皇帝和腓特烈皇后。
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gopnikaz3,631 赞2018/6/5
Fun fact, Victoria was once known as the Grandmother of Europe. Someone once said that had Victoria been alive in 1914 she would have never let her family fight each other.
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Could you link a source? I'd like to read up on that!
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4nyw7h/til_at_the_time_of_ww1_the_king_of_britain_russia/
sighs__unzips152 赞2018/6/5
I TIL'd a lot from that TIL. Great link.
grim7799 赞2018/6/5
if you havent heart Dan carlin's hardcore history I highly recommend listening to it. Blueprint for armageddon I believe maybe 1 or 2 has insane information on this topic and the wars that follow. Such a crazy story with all the relations it's a modern Game of thrones
JoHeWe704 赞2018/6/5
Lesser known fun fact: King Christian IX of Denmark was known as the father-in-law of Europe for the same reason. He even tried to propose to Victoria. Other fun fact: the Dutch royal House is the only European dynasty not descendant from Victoria or Christian. Last fun fact: the last common ancestor of all current European royal Houses is Johan Willem Friso of Orange-Nassau.
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vonadler272 赞2018/6/5
**Current** Sweden Denmark Norway Britain Belgium The Netherlands Spain Luxembourg Monaco Lichtenstein Andorra Vatican City **Former (that were monarchies when the photo was taken)** Greece Romania Germany Austria-Hungary Serbia Montenegro Italy Portugal Russia Ottoman Empire/Turkey Bulgaria **Countries that were their own monarchies, but part of other countries at the time** Finland Poland Hungary Bohemia Ireland Bavaria Württemberg Hannover Prussia Baden Hesse Lithuania
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The Papal State hasn't existed for almost 200 years? The Vatican City is ruled by the Holy See, which is a monarchy though.
aloysiuslamb64 赞2018/6/5
> The Vatican City is ruled by the Holy See The Holy See and the Vatican City are two distinct entities. The Vatican City is subject to the executive, legislative, and judicial powers of the current Pope because the city-state is an absolute theocratic elective monarchy. While the Holy See is the sovereign of the Vatican City, it has no direct role in governance of the city-state. Historically, following the seizure of the Papal States by Italy in the 1800s it made it really weird for governments to deal with the Holy See as a political entity that technically had no territorial sovereignty. So, among other things, the Lateran Treaty established "The State of the Vatican City" re-solidifying the Holy See as having international power despite the Holy See not actually being in control of the city-state itself. It can be a little confusing because it is so intertwined. Internationally, it is the Holy See that participates in politics and diplomacy. For example, embassies are accredited to the Holy See and not the Vatican City, and the Holy See participates as an observer in many international agencies, including the UN. While the Vatican City is recognized as a national territory under international law (and is even a member of some international organizations) it does not enter into diplomatic relations on its own behalf, rather the Holy See is responsible for diplomacy on behalf of both the Holy See and the Vatican City. The Pontifical Swiss Guard are the Pope's bodyguard, but they are administered by the Holy See, whereas the "local" gendarmerie are under the agency of the Vatican City.
fan_of_the_pikachu20 赞2018/6/5
Damn, why do 2000 years old institutions have to be so complicated?
metatron536931 赞2018/6/5
You jest, but the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches are the only surviving functions of the Roman state.
vonadler28 赞2018/6/5
Quite right, I slipped up. I will correct it.
RekdAnalCavity67 赞2018/6/5
Ireland wasn't it's own monarchy, and we haven't had a High King since like 1400.
sorenant76 赞2018/6/5
The Jarls of Ireland should convene a moot then.
Punchee18 赞2018/6/5
That would be rather moot, I think.
vonadler36 赞2018/6/5
Britain was the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" at this time. While the 1800 act of union dissolved Ireland as an autonomous Kingdom, it was still its own crown (like Scotland and Wales), so it could argued that it was still its own monarchy.
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Britain actually wasn't the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland' until 1801. Prior to that point, Ireland was a nominal kingdom ruled by whoever was King of England. edit: oh, wait - are you arguing that Ireland was it's own monarchy past 1800? That's not correct. The crowns were combined as one in 1800.
syntaxerror8928 赞2018/6/5
Then Christian IX wasn't a Christian?
ereubg118 赞2018/6/5
Another fun fact. The UK changed its order of succession recently so that the oldest daughter would not be skipped over. Had that rule been in effect in Queen Victoria's time, her oldest daughter, Princess Victoria, would have been next in line to the throne. When she then died, her son would then have succeeded her and become King William II Instead, he ended up in Germany and became Kaiser Wilhelm II, and lead Germany to war against the UK.
Janagro86 赞2018/6/5
But if she had been born the heir apparent to the throne, she never would have married the heir to the Prussian kingdom. She would have married s minor German prince like her father
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Vox did [a pretty interesting video on the subject](https://youtu.be/5w30XgACSAg).
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Crazy how connected they all were and within 30 years they’d all be at war and many of the political institutions that allowed them to have power would cease to exist Hbo series one day
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I would actually love to see a historically accurate HBO series about World War 1, but mostly the politics involved as it would be hard to cover both the war and the politics. Edit: I've watched most of the great war series on YouTube already and I've been listening to hard core history for years now, so while I appreciate the suggestions please stop telling me they exist, thank you.
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They could use ‚sleepwalkers‘ by Christopher Clarke and make it a series
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Or Fall of Giants by Ken Follett I haven’t read Sleepwalkers but now it’s on my list. Thanks.
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I've been waiting for a series on Fall of Giants. Every now and then I hear something about it, then it dies down. Just like the Uncharted movie :( all I ever wanted was a young Nathan Fillion as Nathan Drake and Bruce Campbell as Sully.
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Thats a great book
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squeeze zealous paint nutty include safe door innocent fuzzy dull *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
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Perfect! Although they should include scenes historical or not at some points showing off the new weapons and ewuipment. Flamethrowers, gas, gasmasks, machineguns, submachineguns, experimental semiautos, tanks, armored cars, ships, submarines, different planes and zeppelins, etc. Many existed before but the war sped up development overall a lot. They might even mention how they intend to use them as the higher ups had a lot of problems with actually predicting what the new weapons should be best used for and how.
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I think apocalypse WW1 did it pretty good, or if you have the time i would check out The Great War on youtube
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It would be like Game of Thrones, except more depressing, because the last scene would be some guy saying “wow, that sucked. At least we don’t have to worry about another horrifically destructive world war, though. Nobody would be stupid enough to start this shit up *again*.”
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Pitch me in as an extra.
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> they’d all be at war no, the people were at war. The families weren't.
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Rather embarrassingly, at the outbreak of war Wilhelm II was the Colonel-in-Chief of The Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons), a cavalry regiment in the British Army. Franz Joseph I was the Colonel-in-Chief of the 1st King’s Dragoon Guards, another cavalry regiment in the British Army, as well as two regiments in the Russian Army. Similarly, George V was a Colonel-in-Chief of the 8th (Rhenish) Cuirassiers regiment of the Royal Prussian Army.
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Ken Follett’s “The Century Trilogy” is a great read that follows all of that. The first book covers WWI, the second WWII, and the third the Cold War until Obama comes into office. I can’t recommend it enough as he does a great job of getting the history right while crafting a captivating fictional narrative.
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You can never convince me that these are not all men
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The men were manly and the women were, too.
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:::it's the beards::::
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Far right could definitely be a dude in drag, look at those hands!
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When men were men and sheep were scared!
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It's Germany, not Wales.
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I'd guess it has a lot to do with what makeup styles were fashionable at the time.
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European Monarchs, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
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>and all the children are above average. Why don't you take a seat right over here.
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its an NPR reference, specially lake woebegone
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Especially gold jacket Prince William look-a-like in the middle.
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I went back to double check, but you're right. I wouldn't have a single doubt if you told me they were all men dressed as women.
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Especially the one on the far right, like... Jesus Christ
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Was it the linebacker build that gave it away?
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Woah. Look at the hands!
Poor fuckers, so inbred if they were horses they would have been shot. http://www.rebelcircus.com/blog/the-deformed-monarchs-the-habsburg-dynasty/
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Except for that one girl at Victoria's feet. She seems to be the only one who escaped the genetic curse.
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She still has the rounded chin, but at least not so dour. It's incredible how much alike they all look though, like those are some extremely strong genetics.
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Centuries of inbreeding takes its toll.
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Yes, I also can't help but notice the striking resemblance between most of the people pictured.
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"pure-bloodlines"
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[The poster boye of pure bloodlines. ](
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I was expecting Carlos II of Spain.
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That's him.
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The royal descendants of Victoria (Queen of the United Kingdom) and of Christian IX (King of Denmark) currently occupy the thrones of Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. At the outbreak of the First World War their grandchildren occupied the thrones of Denmark, Greece, Norway, Germany, Romania, Russia, Spain and the United Kingdom. For this, Queen Victoria was nicknamed "the grandmother of Europe" while King Christian IX was nicknamed "Father-in-law of Europe". Of the remaining kingdoms of Europe today, only Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands descends neither from Queen Victoria nor King Christian IX. Queen Victoria arranged the marriage of her eldest son and heir-apparent, the future Edward VII, to Alexandra of Denmark, the eldest daughter of King Christian IX, which took place on 10 March 1863. Among their six children were George V (who was also Emperor of India throughout his reign) and his sister Maud of Wales (who would later marry their cousin King Haakon VII of Norway, another grandchild of Christian IX, on 22 July 1896). However, these two marriages were not the only unions amongst and between descendants of Victoria and Christian IX. The second son of Christian IX, Prince William, became King of Greece as George I shortly after his sister Alexandra's marriage due to this new connection with the British Royal Family. On 27 October 1889 his son, later Constantine I of Greece, married Sophia of Prussia, a granddaughter of Victoria, forging another union between descendants of the British queen and the Danish king. In 1865, Christian IX's second daughter, Princess Dagmar, became engaged to Tsarevich Nicholas of Russia, son and heir of Tsar Alexander II. Following the untimely death of her fiancé, Dagmar married Nicholas's younger brother, the Tsarevich Alexander in 1866, taking the Russian name Maria Feodorovna. Between 1881 and 1894, she was empress-consort of Russia. Her son, Nicholas II of Russia, married Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, yet another granddaughter of Queen Victoria, on 26 November 1894, and she became empress-consort as Alexandra Feodorovna. Other grandchildren became monarchs in their own right or consorts. Christian X of Denmark was the elder brother of Haakon VII of Norway and thus another grandson of Christian IX of Denmark. William II, German Emperor and King of Prussia was the elder brother of Sophia of Prussia and thus another reigning grandson of Victoria. Lastly, Victoria had two more granddaughters who became queens: Marie of Edinburgh, who married Ferdinand I of Romania, and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg who married Alfonso XIII of Spain. Christian IX was therefore the grandfather of an emperor and two kings who all married granddaughters of Victoria, one of whom (Maud of Wales) was also a granddaughter of Christian IX. In total, five of his grandsons were reigning sovereigns. Victoria, meanwhile, was the grandmother of an emperor, a king-emperor, four queens consort and an empress consort.
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__________ They were assembled for the wedding of Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1876-1936) and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868-1937), both grandchildren of Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria wrote in her journal for 21 April 1894, 'the whole of our large family party were photographed by English, as well as German photographers. Many groups were taken, & some of me with Vicky & my 3 sons, & William.'
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The royal descendants of Victoria (Queen of the United Kingdom) and of Christian IX (King of Denmark) currently occupy the thrones of Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. At the outbreak of the First World War their grandchildren occupied the thrones of Denmark, Greece, Norway, Germany, Romania, Russia, Spain and the United Kingdom. For this, Queen Victoria was nicknamed "the grandmother of Europe" while King Christian IX was nicknamed "Father-in-law of Europe". Of the remaining kingdoms of Europe today, only Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands descends neither from Queen Victoria nor King Christian IX. Queen Victoria arranged the marriage of her eldest son and heir-apparent, the future Edward VII, to Alexandra of Denmark, the eldest daughter of King Christian IX, which took place on 10 March 1863. Among their six children were George V (who was also Emperor of India throughout his reign) and his sister Maud of Wales (who would later marry their cousin King Haakon VII of Norway, another grandchild of Christian IX, on 22 July 1896). However, these two marriages were not the only unions amongst and between descendants of Victoria and Christian IX. The second son of Christian IX, Prince William, became King of Greece as George I shortly after his sister Alexandra's marriage due to this new connection with the British Royal Family. On 27 October 1889 his son, later Constantine I of Greece, married Sophia of Prussia, a granddaughter of Victoria, forging another union between descendants of the British queen and the Danish king. In 1865, Christian IX's second daughter, Princess Dagmar, became engaged to Tsarevich Nicholas of Russia, son and heir of Tsar Alexander II. Following the untimely death of her fiancé, Dagmar married Nicholas's younger brother, the Tsarevich Alexander in 1866, taking the Russian name Maria Feodorovna. Between 1881 and 1894, she was empress-consort of Russia. Her son, Nicholas II of Russia, married Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, yet another granddaughter of Queen Victoria, on 26 November 1894, and she became empress-consort as Alexandra Feodorovna. Other grandchildren became monarchs in their own right or consorts. Christian X of Denmark was the elder brother of Haakon VII of Norway and thus another grandson of Christian IX of Denmark. William II, German Emperor and King of Prussia was the elder brother of Sophia of Prussia and thus another reigning grandson of Victoria. Lastly, Victoria had two more granddaughters who became queens: Marie of Edinburgh, who married Ferdinand I of Romania, and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg who married Alfonso XIII of Spain. Christian IX was therefore the grandfather of an emperor and two kings who all married granddaughters of Victoria, one of whom (Maud of Wales) was also a granddaughter of Christian IX. In total, five of his grandsons were reigning sovereigns. Victoria, meanwhile, was the grandmother of an emperor, a king-emperor, four queens consort and an empress consort.
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As a Finn I've known about our [ultimately failed attempt at a monarchy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Finland_(1918)) immediately post-independence just before the end of WWI, but I only learned (relearned?) today that at least the current head of the House of Hesse is descended from Queen Victoria (the guy who was elected king was married to Kaiser Wilhelm II's sister, who was the one actually descended from Victoria), as well as e.g. the penultimate king of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III.
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1) So are we all related in Europe? Or is it just the monarchy?
2) Which language did they speak at these gatherings?
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I am pretty sure Queen Victoria and Prince Albert used to talk German to each other at home
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Not surprising, the "Windsors" are more German than English. They're German on both sides, Prince Albert being a German noble and making all those babies with Victoria, then the wife of George V, Queen Mary of Teck (Edward VIII's mother) was German-born and raised in England but was said to speak English with a German accent (which hasn't much been portrayed in film and TV; most recently in The Crown, Queen Mary has an English accent). Fergie and Diana supposedly called the Royal family "The Germans", as F&D were both English- Diana's family in particular verifiably British nobility for hundreds of years. Prince Philip also has German ancestry, being of the royal House Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
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Which ones are the Tsar and Tsarina?
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Damn he was a dapper motherfucker
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He is my historical crush. All the Romanov family was quite good-looking.
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Ah. Rurikid not Romanov
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A dapper dan man.
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Wait...then which one is edward?
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Can't see him unfortunately. He's behind the standing guy at the front-very far left, who's holding that stick or sword thing. If it was angled more from the right I'm sure he would be seen.
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The only two good looking ones.
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I was going to say he was a handsome guy!
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And she is very beautiful! Well compared to the other women anyway. The only best looking couple/people really.
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So WWI is actually domestic violence? Wonderful coloring by the way.
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Of course not, they'd never harm each other. Just throw millions of poor young people at each other in a cataclysmic death ball
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"Because it's the 1900's and weapons are getting *crazy*, and all these empires are excited to try them out on each other."
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Hmm. Never really thought about it that way.
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Some of those women do not look happy.
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Smiling was frowned upon in pictures because they were expensive and rare back then so it was treated as a serious ordeal. I agree though, some of them look miserable.
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I like the [theory](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/01/researchers-have-discovered-a-surprising-reason-we-smile-in-photos/?utm_term=.8bcaa845902c) that Kodak marketing campaigns influenced the norm from stern to smiling. > By the turn of the century, sitting for a photo was becoming affordable for average Americans, but the experience remained somewhat awkward. Eastman Kodak, the camera and film company that had near monopoly power in the market, sought to boost sales of photography to the middle class by making the process seem fun. > “Not surprisingly, early amateur portraits published in Studio Light [one of Kodak’s photography magazines] showed a sense of unease and fright before the camera,” Kotchemidova writes. “This nervousness had to be overcome if photography was to become popular. Kodak set out to mastermind the process.” >Kodak’s extensive marketing campaigns emphasized the pleasure of the photograph, instructing professional photographers to seek out families during holidays to strengthen the connection between celebrations and photography. And as consumers started to buy cameras for their own use, slogans like “Save your happy moments with a Kodak” taught them that the camera was a tool to record joy. >One ad from 1908 shows a woman with a beaming white smile holding her Kodak camera. "More pleasure at the moment," the caption reads, "and afterward the added charm of pictures that tell the vacation story." Another ad shows a smiling woman standing in a field of wildflowers, with the caption "Kodak as you go."
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>>One ad from 1908 shows a woman with a beaming white smile holding her Kodak camera. [Here's the ad.](
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Also [I read that] the pictures took a long time to take (I think it's called long exposure? Idk), and when you smile it's very hard to stay in exactly the same position, but a neutral face is easier to hold and thus doesn't mess up the picture and make it blurry
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That was true in the early days of photography. I don't think it was still true in the 1890s
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Those moustaches are on point.
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But their eyes are so...vacant/glassy
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That’s inbreeding for you.
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And opium.
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Who's the unimportant one getting hidden behind the puffy hat on the right side of the image?
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Their 1919 family reunion must have been tense.
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They would be missing a few people
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Poor Victoria
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Can we get ID's?
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From a comment below: > Seated L-R: Kaiser Wilhelm II; Queen Victoria; Princess Royal Victoria-Empress Frederick of Germany; with Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh and Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen in front. > First standing row L-R: Prince Alfred of Edinburgh; Tsarevitch Nicholas (later Tsar Nicholas II); Princess Alix of Hesse (later Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna); Prinzessin Victoria von Hessen und bei Rhein-Princess Louis of Battenberg; Princess Irene von Hessen und bei Rhein, Henry of Prussia; Grand Princess Maria Pavlovna the Elder-Grand Princess Vladimir; and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna-Duchess of Edinburgh. > Second standing row: The Prince of Wales (later Edward VII); Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom; Princess Louise of Belgium-Princess Philipp of Saxe-Coburg Kohary; Charlotte, Hereditary Princess of Saxe-Meiningen; Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein; and Princess Louise, Duchess of Connaught. > Two standing rows at back: Prince Louis of Battenberg; Grand Duke Paul; Prince Henry of Battenberg; Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg Kohary; Count Mensdorff; Grand Duke Serge; Crown Princess Marie of Romania (later Queen Marie of Romania); Crown Prince Ferdinand of Romania (King Ferdinand I); Grand Duchess Serge-Elizabeth Feodorovna; Grand Duke Vladimir; Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught; and Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. http://www.gogmsite.net/the-belle-epoque-1890-1914/the-daughters-of-maria/1894-21-april-victoria.html
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[If you drag your mouse over their faces, it'll tell you who's who and link to their respective wiki articles](
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The gang’s all here
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Wait, is not that THE SAME King Edward VII who later refused Nicholas II and his family asylum in order to avoid unnecessary political friction so his cousin Nicholas and his family to be shot by Bolsheviks is some shithole in Siberia? This story complements the original picture perfectly...
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That was his son, George V. Edward died in 1910.
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George V was a cousin of Nicholas II, not Edward. Edward VII was the father of George V. But George V indeed regretted not helping his cousin and felt in a way responsible for the death of him and his family. That's why in 1922 during Greek turmoil he immediately send rescue to his cousins, Prince Andrew and Princess Alice.
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If this picture was any more inbred it would be a sandwich
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Not the best looking family that's for sure.
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Except Tsar Nicholas II. He's very good looking.
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"All your world are belong to me"
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That rug really ties the room together.
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Too bad it got stolen by anarchists
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Could someone point out who is who in this picture? The only person I can recognize on sight is Queen Victoria.
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> Seated L-R: Kaiser Wilhelm II; Queen Victoria; Princess Royal Victoria-Empress Frederick of Germany; with Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh and Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen in front. > First standing row L-R: Prince Alfred of Edinburgh; Tsarevitch Nicholas (later Tsar Nicholas II); Princess Alix of Hesse (later Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna); Prinzessin Victoria von Hessen und bei Rhein-Princess Louis of Battenberg; Princess Irene von Hessen und bei Rhein, Henry of Prussia; Grand Princess Maria Pavlovna the Elder-Grand Princess Vladimir; and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna-Duchess of Edinburgh. > Second standing row: The Prince of Wales (later Edward VII); Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom; Princess Louise of Belgium-Princess Philipp of Saxe-Coburg Kohary; Charlotte, Hereditary Princess of Saxe-Meiningen; Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein; and Princess Louise, Duchess of Connaught. > Two standing rows at back: Prince Louis of Battenberg; Grand Duke Paul; Prince Henry of Battenberg; Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg Kohary; Count Mensdorff; Grand Duke Serge; Crown Princess Marie of Romania (later Queen Marie of Romania); Crown Prince Ferdinand of Romania (King Ferdinand I); Grand Duchess Serge-Elizabeth Feodorovna; Grand Duke Vladimir; Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught; and Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. http://www.gogmsite.net/the-belle-epoque-1890-1914/the-daughters-of-maria/1894-21-april-victoria.html
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Why do all the women look like dudes?
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Are European royal families all basically the same family?
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yes
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A lot of those woman look like men. I think Patrick Swayze is on the right.
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The last of the old world and millions about to die...
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All inbred to fuck
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Fun fact: the people in that photo were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
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It's all looks like the same face with verying degrees of facial hair...