World of Royalty Blog

Woman who found coin worth £2,000 in garden becomes first to be prosecuted for not reporting treasure

Controversy over Shropshire woman not declaring find

Queen Victoria’s silk stockings to be sold

Authenticated van Gogh painting unveiled

Damaged Delaroche work on show in London

You can see photos of the painting “Charles I Insulted by Cromwell’s Soldiers” and learn more about its history here. Visit Wikimedia Commons for other royal-themed art works by Paul Delaroche.

 
Above: “Marie-Antoinette au Tribunal révolutionnaire” engraving by Alphonse François (1814-1888) after Paul Delaroche. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Princesses’ fairytale lives to become art

In 1969, the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem was attacked and a precious work of art, the minbar (pulpit) of Saladin, originally installed in 1187, was destroyed. Here’s an excerpt from “Stairway to Heaven,” a film the made by The Prince’s Charities, which tells how the minbar was reconstructed with the help of Britain’s Prince of Wales and Jordan’s Prince Ghazi. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh.

Royal walking stick given to island diplomat auctioned

Old plate taken to Antiques Roadshow in a Tesco carrier bag is valued at £100,000

“A 13th-century letter from Genghis Khan’s grandson demanding homage from the pope is among a collection of documents… published for the first time.”

British caricaturist James Gillray’s “scathing satires of royalty, leading politicians and the French elite terrified his targets… The Prince Regent, later George IV, tried to buy as many copies as possible to take them out of circulation.”

Some of James Gillray’s cartoons are available at Wikimedia Commons. That’s where I found the famous illustration below, “The Plumb-Pudding in Danger,” which depicts British Prime Minister William Pitt and French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte carving up the world. According to Wikimedia, this image is in the public domain.