A portrait of Catherine the Great in her coronation robe after wresting the ... Prussia and quash Austrian influence over the Russian crown. Sophie disliked her future husband, but knew what ...

Shows like The Great on ... timeline. Catherine took the power as empress in 1762 and held the supreme authority of Russia until her death in 1796. In her usurpation of the crown, just six months ...

King Charles III’s great-grandmother Queen Mary was the wife of King George VI. Born Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, she married the then Prince George in 1893, before reigning alongside her ...

Before the actual coronation, it was rumored that Catherine would break with tradition and wear a “floral crown,” in a nod to the king’s wish for a more modern, less ostentatious coronation.

Charles looked particularly solemn as he wore the crown ... also made Catherine’s wedding dress and often dresses her for major public occasions. Camilla’s coronation dress, made of white ...

(What’s so great about Frederick ... would never be directly linked to Catherine, but his diagnosis became a snide euphemism for assassination. Coronation coutureCatherine’s coronation ...

If most eyes were on the Crown Jewels this time last year, the May 6 Coronation saw another ... earrings once belonged to Empress Catherine the Great of Russia. They came to the Danish royal ...

Along with the day’s pageantry comes a display of enormous wealth, including $3.8B worth of jewels, including a crown that wasn’t used at a coronation ... William and Catherine, and Sophie ...

During the ceremony, King Charles wore the St. Edward’s Crown ... McQueen WPA Pool Catherine, Princess of Wales, paid tribute to the royal women who preceded her with her coronation jewels ...

but also Queen Camilla’s refashioned Queen Mary’s Crown. The headpiece was modified from when Charles’ great-grandmother Queen Mary wore it as consort to the coronation of her husband ...

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment ... The centerpiece of the collection is the Imperial Crown, created for Catherine’s 1762 coronation by Genevan court jeweler ...