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“Truly his life is a rainbow; the two extreme ends touch the earth, the intervening arc spans the skies.”

— Charlotte Brontë, The Death of Napoleon

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They have already kissed over a million times in my mind. That’s why this official one doesn’t phase me

JUST KIDDING I can’t sleep!!!!! I’ve been looking at that panel for over 3 hours now! I have to get up for work in 4 hours + I have important things to work on for month-end close BUT this panel is making me so giddy!!! I think I might be jumping the gun here but I jumped out of bed and celebrated and screamed and even CRIED. I would say I’m overreacting but my 13 year old self would expect nothing less.

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So now was the time??!!!?!?! This series is too much for my weak heart

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People die when they’re killed!!!

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Nicholas II "with flowers"

A cute picture of the Russian Sovereign. Waiting for somebody (probably Alix) holding a bunch of wildflowers. Did she stand him up?

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEORGE HARRISON // FEBRUARY 25, 1943

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Nicholas and Alexandra trying to ride a pony.

(source: 📷)

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text messages from one piece 16/?

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Mugiwara’s hand

Source and Artist from :https://twitter.com/sanjiluvbot

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#Noragami

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The Hessian Family, May 1875: The Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and by Rhine, along with their five daughters, Princesses Victoria, Elizabeth, Irene, Alix and Marie (who died aged 4), and their only son, Prince Ernest Louis.

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Prince William talking about how he would want to handle the impact of his mother’s death in the documentary “Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy” (2017)

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Nicholas II, 1902

“My own beloved Wify,

I begin this letter a few hours before Kursk, so as to finish it this evening. The train shakes a little so you must excuse my bad writing! Sweet lovy-mine, how sad and how hard it was saying goodbye yesterday, I felt I could not speak to you during the last moments, for fear of bursting into tears. 

Knowing that I was leaving you all alone (except the children) after such trying circumstances and with Ella too, made me more miserable than ever - I mean this separation is the most painful one we have had. But there is nothing to be done, God knows what is good for us, we must bow down our heads and repeat the sacred words ‘Thy will be done.’ I don’t know but I feel so quiet before arriving today there, that is the fulfilment of ‘our friend’s’ promise. I tried to pray very fervently last night and this morning and that has also brought comfort to my soul.

After dinner it rained yesterday, but now it is lovely, quite warm and sunny. If it is so for the manoeuvres it will be simply delicious. There has been no talk yet. I sat much with Misha or read in my cabin. We walked at several stations. It is 11 o’clock in the evening - the first part of the programme is finished. The first speech went off very well, but in the beginning one I stuck and could not for the life remember what I wanted to say. But in the end after a desperate attempt to speak, I succeeded in producing the second half of my speech, which was perhaps enough after all. The heat in the room was terrific.

Now it is late, my sweet Sunny, I must finish my letter by pressing you tenderly to my heart. God bless you, my darling and our sweet children. Misha kisses you very lovingly. I shall write every day.

Ever your own loving and devoted Nicky.”

- Nicholas to Alexandra Feodorovna, 29th August/11th September 1902

“My own beloved one, 

With what intense joy I received your precious letter this morning. Thank you for it with all my heart. Yes, indeed, sweetie, this parting has been one of the hardest, but every day brings us nearer to our meeting again. How anguishing the moment of the speeches must have been. Your precious letter and telegrams I’ve put on our bed so that when I wake up in the night I can touch something of yours.

Fancy an old married woman speaking so - ‘old fashioned’ many would say. But what would life be without love - what would have become of Wify without you? You, my beloved treasure, the joy of my heart. To keep the children quiet, I made them think of things and then guess them. Olga always thinks of the sun, clouds, sky, rain or something belonging to the heavens, explaining to me that it makes her so happy to think of that.

Now, my pet, goodbye, God bless and keep you. A hearty kiss, sweet one, from your tenderly loving and devoted Wify, Alix.”

- Alexandra to Nicholas, 31st August/13th September

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A beautiful photograph of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and Emperor Nicholas II.

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The duty in the family is selfless love. Everyone should forget about their “I”, devoting themselves to the other. Everyone should blame themselves, not the other, when something goes wrong. Endurance and patience are necessary, impatience can ruin everything. A harsh words can slow down the merging of souls for months. There should be a desire on both sides to make the marriage happy and overcome everything that hinders it. The strongest love needs its daily strengthening most of all. Most of all, rudeness is unforgivable in our home, in relation to those we love.

© Alexandra Feodorovna

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“Peter, who broke his enemies on the rack and hanged them in Red Square, who had his son tortured to death, is Peter the Great. But Nicholas, whose hand was lighter than that of any tsar before him, is “Bloody Nicholas”. In human terms, this is irony rich and dramatic, the more so because Nicholas knew what he was called.”

R. K. Massie: Nicholas and Alexandra