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An Old Woman, by the Flemish artist Quinten Massys, is one of the standout paintings in London’s National Gallery. It is usually called “The Ugly Duchess”, after it became the inspiration for Sir John Tenniel’s drawing of the infamous duchess in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
In the last years of his life, George V suffered from chronic pulmonary diseases and several times his condition became extremely serious. George V died at Sandringham on January 20, 1936. Only 50 years later it became known that his physician Baron Bertrand Dawson, on his own initiative, euthanized the king, who had fallen into a coma after severe bronchitis, by personally injecting him with morphine and cocaine.
Elizabeth was born into the family of the Duke and Duchess of York. Her father ascended to the throne following the abdication of his brother King Edward VIII in 1936, leaving her heir to the throne.
Edward VIII King of Great Britain for ten months from January 20 to December 11, 1936; was not crowned. Abdicated the throne in order to marry divorced Wallis Warfield Simpson of the United States, to which the British government did not consent.
Focusing on the following reason or type: received the title Duke of Windsor, which he bore until the end of his life. Known for his personal contacts with the leadership of Nazi Germany, which took place after the abdication. In 1940-1945 he was governor of the Bahamas, after the war he lived in France. Diana, Princess of Wales Diana Frances Spencer.
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill,
Prime Minister of Great Britain since Monarch George VI, Mother - Lady Randolph Churchill, nee Jennie Jerome, was the daughter of a wealthy American businessman. The Spencer family is one of the largest British aristocratic families, bearing the titles of Earls of Sunderland and Spencer, Dukes of Marlborough and Viscounts Churchill. In the 20th century, the most prominent representatives of the family were Sir Winston Spencer-Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain, and Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales.
Charles Spencer Chaplin. Chaplin and his troupe had been on tour in the United States since September 1910 and decided to stay in this country. During the McCarthy era in the USA, Chaplin began to be accused of anti-American activities and suspected of being a secret communist. The head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, ordered to intensify efforts to collect an extensive dossier on Chaplin, which began in the 1930s, and tried to expel the actor from the country. FBI harassment of Chaplin grew after he campaigned for a second front in 1942, and reached a critical level in the late 1940s when members of Congress threatened to implicate him as a witness in congressional hearings. This did not happen, perhaps out of fear that Chaplin might have written a satire on his persecutors.
Slavs in USA history. Melania Trump Knavs 1970, Novo Mesto, SR Slovenia. Ivana Marie Zelníčková 1949, Gottwald (Zlín), Moravia, Czechoslovakia. Wikipedia writes: When World War II began, Trump moved his family to Virginia.
George VI (born December 14, 1895, Sandringham, Norfolk, England—died February 6, 1952, Sandringham) king of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952. His wife Elizabeth This marriage was a popular departure from the long-standing practice of an English prince marrying into a foreign royal family. The duke of York assumed the throne on December 11, 1936, following the abdication of his brother Edward VIII; he was officially proclaimed king the following day. He took the name of George VI and was crowned on May 12, 1937.
Before the outbreak of World War II, the king affirmed Anglo-French solidarity and formed a close friendship with U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, but he supported Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s “appeasement” policy toward Germany and Italy.
In 1940, the House of Commons forced Chamberlain to resign, the king wished to appoint Edward Frederick Lindley Wood (later 1st earl of Halifax) to the premiership but was induced to select Winston Churchill, whose wartime leadership he then supported unreservedly.
Head of the Commonwealth of Nations. Great Britain was an ally of the USSR, but the king treated his coalition ally with great caution.
In 1943, on the personal instructions of the king, the award (ceremonial) sword of Stalingrad, decorated with precious metals and stones, was forged. It was intended for the residents of Stalingrad, whose feat was admired by the royal family and the entire British people. On November 29, 1943, the sword was presented by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to Marshal of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin in the presence of US President Franklin Roosevelt and an honor guard at a ceremony marking the opening of the Tehran Conference.
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Anastasia Gorbachev, Antoine Arnault and Ksenia Gorbachev
World without Russian noble court
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock befor 1939 worked in Great Britain, then in the USA. "Psycho", "Vertigo", "North by Northwest". Queen Elizabeth II knighted him. “Dial M for Murder” and “Rear Window” are considered among the director’s best works. During the filming of the third film with Alfred Hitchcock, To Catch a Thief, which takes place on the French Riviera, the Principality of Monaco unexpectedly came into the picture. However, Grace met Prince Rainier III of Monaco a year later, during the Cannes Film Festival, with the active assistance of actress Olivia de Haviland and her second husband. Since 1956 - the prince's wife. Wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
West translation of economic daccord with under west comunity and separation with coalition of Russian-centre countries to the unknown to the sovietic disciplines, democratic regulations and the concept of “property”, in the history of Russia is called “collapse”: 1990 USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He received recognition from the world community for his contribution to the peace process in relations between the Soviet Union and Western countries. For his "leading role in the peace process, which characterizes an important part of the life of the international community." According to the committee, “the peace process, to which Gorbachev made such a significant contribution, opens up new opportunities for the world community to solve its pressing problems, regardless of ideological, religious, historical and cultural differences.”
photographer Vasiliev, in a conversation with KP, made up for how at the age of 15 the girl dropped out of school because the family needed financial help. The future podium star, instead of training, stood at a station in Nizhny Novgorod and “sold bananas.” “They had a nightclub in the area that she liked to go to. I could dance until five in the morning, and then go to the market to buy goods and work to support my family,” Vasiliev said.
Spiral They say Modern Indians and Eskimos are genetically close to the inhabitants of Asia. In particular, according to genetic research at the University of Michigan, the genotypes of a number of Indian tribes are close to the genotypes of some peoples of Siberia. This confirms the hypothesis that the ancestors of modern Indians and Eskimos moved to America from Asia. One of the proposed resettlement routes is the so-called “Beringian Bridge”