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Around the time of the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign after her father-King George VI- died, Queen Mary was still alive, Mary was known as "Queen Dowager" and since the elder Queen Elizabeth couldn't have that title and she didn't want people to be confused with the present Queen and she...

Her name is Alexia Bergstrom and is seventeen according to NOTW.

Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria - Former King Simeon II, crowned as a child and forced into exile during the communist years, vowed to improve dismal living standards in 800 days when he returned to Bulgaria as prime minister in 2001. But what began as a 21st-century fairy tale had an unhappy...

30 SEPTEMBER 2003 Ever wondered how kings and queens behave at the dinner table? Now, thanks to a fascinating new tour available at Windsor Castle, you can find out about royal eating habits over the last eight centuries, and take a look round the Castle’s recently restored Great Kitchen...

Leave me alone, pleads Harry September 25, 2003 - 2:38PM Britain's Prince Harry looks at a koala during a visit to Sydney's Taronga Zoo. Picture: Reuters Prince Harry is tired of dodging the world's media and wants to be left alone to learn about life on an Australian outback property...

Amazing pictures. Thanks for posting. :flower:

Lib Dems to vote on abolishing Queen Liberal Democrats are to vote on a proposal to remove the Queen as head of state, it has emerged. The motion, proposed by Liberal Democrat Youth and Students for the party's conference next week, will cause a headache for leader Charles Kennedy. It is...

This is like those detestable "What if..." scenerios...This is purely a 'wait and see' sort of thing. :innocent:

Prince pays tribute to royal victim of Bolshevik purge (Filed: 01/03/2003) Grand duchess who was hurled down a mine is honoured at Windsor. Caroline Davies reports The Prince of Wales paid tribute yesterday to his great-great-aunt, Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia, who was murdered by the...

Church marks killing of Russian tsar The church stands on the site where the Romanovs were shot The Russian Orthodox Church has consecrated a golden-domed church on the site where Russia's last tsar and his family were killed by Bolshevik revolutionaries 85 years ago. The ceremony in the...

Memorial fails to end row over tsar's remains Nick Paton Walsh in Yekaterinburg Tuesday July 15, 2003 The Guardian It is the site where a basement execution sealed the fate of the Romanovs. And now as Russia embraces its imperial history once again, it will be home to a £7m memorial church...

Prince Hidden Socialist Greek By: WILLIAM CASH (Thanks to the Royal Archive :flower: ) Prince Nikolaos of Greece may not use a surname but there is no shortage of alternative soubriquets which you will not find mentioned in his one-line entry in the Almanach de Gotha, the social bible of...

What great pictures.... :flower:

Alexander the Great Alexander the Great's father, Philip, was the brother of King Perdiccas III of Macedon or Macedonia, in northern Greece. In 359 B.C., King Perdiccas died. His young son Amyntas was expected to succeed him, with Philip as his regent, but Philip usurped his nephew's throne...

The Queen and I (an updated article) Joburg man's tale of 'mind-blowing sex' with king's wife has Swazis in a tizz Lesley Mofokeng (The Sunday times) Royal upset: King Mswati III, and Queen LaMagwaza in traditional dress at a function. It is rumoured that LaMagwaza has previously had an...

Swaziland's Reed Dance at Odds with Democratization Process, Women's RightsChalliss McDonough Ludzidzini, Swaziland 12 Sep 2003, 21:54 UTC Challiss McDonough in Ludzidzini's Swaziland (RealAudio) McDonough report - Download 848k (RealAudio) AP Young Swazi maidens react after a hail...

The Soap Opera continues.....Cuckolded king in a right royal flap September 9, 2003 By Sammy Were Mbabane - Swaziland's King Mswati III, in a tizz at reports that one of his wives has taken a South African lover, stomped out of his own birthday party. Hordes of policemen were sent scurrying...

Swazi queen likely to face house arrest September 10, 2003 The errant fifth wife of King Mswati III of Swaziland, suspected of adultery after revealing photographs were published in a South African newspaper, could face virtual house arrest if deemed guilty. According to a source in royal...

Swazi king's wife in hiding after affair tale September 09 2003 at 04:13AM By Sammy Were Mbabane - Swazi policemen were sent out on Sunday to buy up all copies of the Sunday Times with its claims that King Mswati III's fifth wife, Inkhosikati LaMagwaza, had had an affair with a...

:shock: Swazi King Picks Bride Number 12THULANI MTHETHWA Associated Press MBABANE, Swaziland - Swaziland's King Mswati III selected his 12th bride on Thursday, less than a week after he picked bride No. 11 from thousands of young Swazi maidens, royal sources said. Mswati's 12th bride was...

Swaziland's king faces increasing disaffection New York Times MBABANE, SWAZILAND--Not every grand event goes off without a hitch, but it is safe to say that few parades have been so decisively rained on, literally and otherwise, as the one over which King Mswati III presided here Friday. A...

Zara on a mission to follow parents to Olympics By Alan Smith (Filed: 08/09/2003) Zara Phillips, whose parents, the Princess Royal and Captain Mark Phillips, both rode for Britain in the Olympic Games, put herself in line to follow them in Athens next year when she rode Toytown into second...

The Gods Must Be Angry......Hailstorm Cuts Swaziland Dance Short By DINA KRAFT Associated Press Writer Young Swazi maidens who were performing in the country's annual reed dance react after a hail storm halted the last day of the ceremony at Ludzidzini, Swaziland, Friday Sept. 5, 2003. The...

Bianca, Thanks for the links....By the looks of Eloise she is healthy in everyway....even the size of her head! The very first (previous) posts sounded as if this baby had some serious medical condition...(which I surmised as being "Hydrocephalus" with out any concrete evidence!) Also, Because...

IF it is true the condition (this is all speculation for the moment based on the previous posts above), Hydrocephalus, is easily reversible, and people live long healthy lives! I'll try and find some information on the little gem- Countess Eloise to settle this fiasco.