Things I'm Obsessing Over

thebritishnobility:

Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay, Prince William, Earl of Strathearn and Catherine, Countess of Strathearn during a visit to Dumfries House on April 05, 2013 in Ayrshire, Scotland. 

Fly past by two Typhoons of 6 Squadron RAF Leuchars, mark the end of the Royals visit to Dumfries House on March 05, 2013 in Ayrshire, Scotland.

I hope to look even half this good when I’m pregnant

(Source: TheBritishNobility, via atticuschapin)

youngbadmanbrown:

womenwhokickass:

(76# Ghana) King Peggielene Bartels: Why she kicks ass

“To be a king in an African village or some places like this, it’s not like European queens where everything is on a silver platter for them … I have to really work hard to help my people. I have to give myself to people to better their lives..”

• She is currently the King of Otuam, Ghana and one of only three female kings in Ghana. She has maintained her work in Ghana’s embassy in Washington, D.C. while making education affordable in Otuam, installing borehead wells to produce clean drinking water, enforcing incarceration laws to deal with domestic violence, providing the village with its first ambulance, replenishing the royal coffers by taxing Otuam’s fishing industry to improve life in the village, and appointing three women to her council.
• When she encountered corruption and the threat of embezzlement to the royal funds, she declared “I’m going to squeeze their balls so hard their eyes pop!”
• For 11 months out of the year she’s regular Peggy, secretary for the Ghanian Ambassador.  She works, keeps in touch with her advisors via phone every night, saves her money and accumulates her vacation time into one month-long period- where she then takes off to Ghana to fulfill her duties in-person.
• When she discovered that male chauvinists wanted her to only be a figurehead, she said: “They were treating me like I am a second-class citizen because I am a woman. I said, ‘Hell no, you’re not going to do this to a woman!’”
• King Penny’s tale has been documented in a book written by her and author Eleanor Herman and is to be made into a film after Hollywood star Will Smith bought the rights to the book.

god damn it will smith, you best make that movie with a quickness and make it well

(via helenaisis)

kittygrimm:

ichgehornurmir:

bellemarianne:

prince—william:

Facial reconstruction of Queen Anne Boleyn by Emily Pooley.

This is the face that manipulated one of the most powerful men in the world.

Wow! This is amazing!

That’s incredible!

based on??

but really this does explain a lot

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wtfhistory:

collectivehistory:

Eighteen year old Princess Elizabeth pictured during her time in the Auxiliary Territorial Service during WWII where she drove and repaired heavy vehicles, 1945. 

…if you tell me that you don’t have just the tiniest bit of a crush on her, you CLEARLY have not seen all the pictures from her youth.

makes her just a little cooler

Queen Elizabeth II - October 1955.

in this photo it reminded me quite a bit of actress/model Analeigh Tipton

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moika-palace:

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna’s diamond and aquamarine kokoshnik tiara.

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna’s diamond and emerald tiara created by jewelers Bolin and Fabergé  (1900).

Empress Maria Feodorovna’s diamond and sapphire diadem “Russian Beauty.”

Russian Imperial Wedding Tiara.

(via scarymerry)

lovelydyedlocks:

1.  Curl all of the hair loosely with a flat iron or curling iron. 
2.  Section out the sides to a little past each ear and clip them aside.  Then section out the top and clip it aside as well.   

3.  Put the back section in a low ponytail.
4.  Create a chignon by looping small sections around the ponytail and pinning them in place.

5.  Let down the top section and drape it over the chignon, loosely twisting it and pushing it upwards for more body.  Secure with bobby pins. 
6.  Twist up the end of the hair remaining from the top section and add it to the chignon, securing with bobby pins.  Now the only hair left out should be the two side sections. 

7.  Use the remaning hair on the sides to do two braids going back, laying them on top of the updo.  In Kate Middleton’s updo, she only has one braid going down one side of her hair (the shallow side), but we decided to do braids down both sides.  Either way is beautiful!  

8.  Secure the braids with bobby pins in the back.  

honestly I think the tutorial version looks better

but they’re both amazing

(via lovelydyedlocks)

royalwatcher:

Queen Rania with her son, Prince Hashem 

she is my favorite monarch

neuroflux:

cucoo:

carbunculus:

swear to god henry IV looks like a little shit in every single one of his paintings

look at this asshole

look at him

god damn it henry

GOD DAMN IT STOP LOOKING SO SASSY YOU FRENCH FUCK

HENRY

DEAD

THE FIRST ONE OH MY GOD

a swarthy fuck he was

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dixias:

Mariacarla Boscono at Givenchy Haute Couture Fall 2009

quick someone make me a royal

and I’d wear this

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