Wilton House is a manor house, famous for its landscaped park and magnificent interiors.
Wilton House. The manor house is home to the Earls of Pembroke.
Category: Baroque
Prince Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria.
Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619 – 1682), called Rupert the Cavalier, was Prince of the Palatinate from the house of the Wittelsbacher
The execution of the English politician Lord William Russell 1683.
Lord Russell, usually called Lord William Russell, son of William, Earl of Bedford, and Lady Ann Carr, daughter of Carr, Earl of Somerset.
Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox
Frances Stewart was one of the great beauties of the Jacobean court, she was also the patron of Captain John Smith of the Virginia Colony.
The costumes of the aristocracy. The kings of fashion. France 17th century.
The aristocracy’s costumes. Louis XIV in the fashion of 1660 and 1670. The fashion of long hair. The Rhine Count’s trousers. The court of Versailles.
The Luxembourg Palace at Faubourg St. Germain, Rue de Vaugirard.
THE Palace of the Luxembourg is situated in the Faubourg St. Germain, Rue de Vaugirard.
The story of Catalina de Erauso, the fighting nun lieutenant.
THE story of Catalina de Erauso, the Spanish nun who became famous as a soldier
Matron, maid, citizen. Bourgeois women 17th c.
German baroque fashion in 1644. Matron, maid, citizen.
Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Women pirates.
WOMEN WHO POSED AS MEN. The Golden Age of piracy.
Chevalier Charles d’Éon de Beaumont.
He was a transgender/non-binary french spy. one of the most brilliant and contradictory characters of the eighteenth century