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February 14, 2006
Old Families, Shiny Things
You can be the most committed republican in the world (I use the label in its original sense, not to indicate GOP sympathies), but then a princess will come along in all her elegance and finery and you'll be as helpless and worshipful as the rest of them. I have been looking at a German presentation of the Russian Imperial Jewels. Oh! The gems themselves are, well, shiny rocks that I can't afford, but the pictures of the women who wore them are spectacular:
Her mother, Ksenia Aleksandrovna. What a wonderful headdress.
Zinaida Yusupova and her pearls. She's breathtaking.
Posted by michele at February 14, 2006 1:56 PM