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Site News & Guidelines
A section on research/academia?
Video capturing? Suggestions?
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I wanted to try out some of the video capturing and editing (hopefully, for a project later this year) but I don't know which viewer is the best. Suggestions?
updated by @marie-adelina-de-la-ferriere: 06 Oct 2016 06:18:56AM
From Madame de Coucy to Lady Greyhill - WTF?!?!?!
Social Announcements & Introductions
WHAT AM I DOING? (Part One)
Well, it can be very difficult trying to have a professional conversation with potential out-world clients in SL. I mean, how many wouldn't balk at a woman sitting in period costume, with her hair and face powdered to the max?! So, what I've decided to do was reinvent myself so as to maintain two identities without having to go through the process of switching between alts.
WHAT AM I DOING? (Part Two)
Why the change? Over the years I have tried to merge my professional/academic interests and experience in the study of elite culture (monarchies, royal courts, princesses and tiaras & etc.) as well as new media. I have tried to propose projects which, in RL, are either out of this world (coffee plus three hours of sleep makes this lady a mad lady), extremely expensive or both. So, in our ever-so-efficient and tech-saavy world, I am hoping to start an in-world venture which blends my interests. This would include professional consultation for royal courts & courtiers, princes & potentates, but also in bringing to life the historical kings & queens of the past to an increasing and curious audience on the Web. More details will follow, but I'm oping this venture would allow me to have fun and be productive in Second Life. Finally!
After all, one can't spend one's time shopping, drinking and partying like it's 1773. 
XOXO,
Catherine B, Lady Greyhill (MariaJosefa Baudin)
P.S.: I will be looking for set and costume designers, actors and extras within the upcoming months. So if you please leave your name below, I will get back to you as soon as possible.
updated by @marie-adelina-de-la-ferriere: 06 Oct 2016 06:17:30AM
Copy of Marie Antoinette's will at the Imperial Museum of Brazil
History
I understand it was a testament - I apologize for the wrong use of word - but in the context of this time I truly wonder how the letter got to Elisabeth. Of course, it would have been a marvelous piece of propaganda to be used during the Restoration - to prove that Marie Antoinette was a loving a caring mother. But if it is indeed real, it would be interesting to know how to the letter was written from her cell and made it to Marie-Elisabeth's hands in Austria.
Copy of Marie Antoinette's will at the Imperial Museum of Brazil
History
Has someone every contested the validity of the will?
Wallis & Elizabeth
Bloggers' Corner
Strange as it sounds, I would equate their relationship with queens Charlotte and Marie Antoinette; they kept constant contact with one another, but the business of monarchy (you know, that little tiff that started in the colonies) would force them to take the stands of their husbands. Same thing with the Duchess of Windsor and Queen Elizabeth. Yes, they were cordial when Edward and George were princes. But the notion of Edward marrying a divorcee - being an American also put a little dint into the problems, as well as her assumed Nazi sympathies - alarmed the establishment. The Duke & Duchess of York (George VI & Queen Elizabeth) had to take a stand on the issue and prepare for what would be the first volunteer abdication in British history.
Despite a more noble pedigree, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was very much more of a modern woman. She was the first commoner to marry into the royal family in more than 300 years (the last one, of course, being Anne Boleyn) and had the casual-meets-royal personality. It is no wonder George V wanted to push her and her future husband into the forefront. No wonder her wedding to the Duke of York was the first to have been celebrated at Westminster Abbey and declared a public holiday since Richard III & Anne Neville - a tradition that continues today.
New dresses coming from Ephemera- UPDATED
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I will be heavily in debt because of you. No complaints!
Chez Giroux - New Gowns :D
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These are so fetch! I'm totally buying them!!!
Chez Giroux - New Gowns :D
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These are so fetch! I'm totally buying them!!!