For several weeks, the Norwegian press has been reporting that Princess Märtha Louise of Norway could soon lose her title. This decision could be accelerated by a similar decision taken last month by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark for some of her grandchildren. Princess Märtha Louise could lose her title on the occasion of her … Read more
For several weeks, the Norwegian press has been reporting that Princess Märtha Louise of Norway could soon lose her title. This decision could be accelerated by a similar decision taken last month by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark for some of her grandchildren. Princess Märtha Louise could lose her title on the occasion of her … Read more
For more than a century and a half, France has lived as a republic. Previously, and for nine centuries, princes of the Capetian House had reigned over it. After the revolution of 1830, the elder branch of the Bourbons was driven from the throne. Since then, dynastic legitimacy has continued to be embodied by a … Read more
The brutal melee ends. Amid the corpses of Teutonic knights, Alexander Nevsky brandishes his sword and roars as he gazes at the dead: “This land was Russian, it still is, and it will remain so!” On this day, the warriors are actors in chain mail, history buffs gathered for a reenactment in the Russian village … Read more
The brutal melee ends. Amid the corpses of Teutonic knights, Alexander Nevsky brandishes his sword and roars as he gazes at the dead: “This land was Russian, it still is, and it will remain so!” On this day, the warriors are actors in chain mail, history buffs gathered for a reenactment in the Russian village … Read more
In his first film, The witchcosting four million dollars, Robert Eggers had sketched a battle between Puritanism and the occult in seventeenth-century New England, written entirely in Tudor-era English. That film followed The lighthouse, a surrealist nightmare of survival, steeped in sea salt and marine jargon. It is on this kind of direction that cult … Read more