The Ornamented Being
Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify. Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness.
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I think on Mondays we could all do with a quote to set the tone for our week ahead. So keep your heads high, the sun is out, flowers are blooming, and this place is more beautiful for having you in it.
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Just remember, sometimes you have to kiss a few frogs to find a prince.
Edit: Oh my goodness this was just meant to just be a fun post. I loved this photo and thought the quote was cute and fit the image.
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Obviously this is not the first stage of mourning since it was taken in ca. 1873 (and you can tell by what she is wearing) and Albert died in 1861. I put this photo with this quote because it’s so clear!
” … As the afternoon wore on, he became delirious. At 5.30pm, the Royal Household gathered. By 9pm, a telegram was sent from Windsor to London announcing Albert’s condition was desperate.
In the King’s Room the Queen longed for some sign of recognition from her husband. She leant forward and in German, the language she had grown up speaking, whispered in Albert’s ear: ‘Es ist kleines Frauchen’ – It is your little wife – and asked for ‘ein Kuss’ – a kiss – but he could barely raise his head from the pillow. She retired to the anteroom, where she sank to the floor, her hair awry and her face buried in her hands.
‘Why?’ she asked plaintively, ‘Why must I suffer this? It is like tearing the flesh from my bones,’ she sobbed. Within half an hour a rapid change had set in; Prince Albert was now bathed in sweat. The only sound in the King’s Room was the dying Prince’s struggle for breath.
Their daughter Princess Alice recognised it: ‘That is the death rattle,’ she whispered. Victoria had heard Albert’s heavy breathing from the next room. ‘I’m afraid this takes away all our hope,’ Alice told her.
Upon which, Victoria – as Alice later wrote – ‘started up like a Lioness rushed by every one, and bounded on the bed imploring him to speak and to give one kiss to his little wife’… . “
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2054613/Magnificent-Obsession-Victoria-Albert-And-The-Death-That-Changed-The-Monarchy.html#ixzz1cGLsLf8c -
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” English mourning dress of black watered silk for evening, c. 1861. The neck and sleeves are trimmed with lace and jet. Such a dress would have been consistent with the regulations issued for the General Mourning at the death of Prince Albert.”
Photo scanned from the Met’s book here.
The silk is just gorgeous.
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Aren’t they all so beautiful?
The Romanov children, listed in no particular order, Anastasia, Marie, Tatiana, Olga, and the Tsarevich Alexei.
Such a tragedy.
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Photo reblogged from Forget you? Not while I live...not if I die
PRINCE HARRY IS WEARING NOTHING BUT PATRIOTIC BOXERS
Undercover Brothers!
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A middle aged Victoria and Albert recreate their wedding day
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1863 Princess Alexandra married Albert Edward-Edward VII
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For Prince Albert, Dated 1861, Embossed and pierced cream card with letterpress and black painted border.
V&A
