Royal News BlogJapan pop artist’s Versailles show sparks protests
More about the upcoming Takashi Murakami exhibition from the official Versailles website, including a photo of one of the artist’s (hideous) statues in a palace salon.
And here is my previous post about artist Jeff Koons’ also-controversial 2008 show at Versailles (with video).
Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed memorials may be about to be removed from Harrods
Not unexpectedly, the memorials’ creator, Mohamed Al Fayed, thinks the statue of his son Dodi Fayed and Princess Diana should remain in the department store, saying, “It is the only memorial to the Princess in this country, if one discounts the misconceived municipal waterworks in Hyde Park.”
Below: A detail of the statue at Harrods. You can see a photo of the full statue here. It’s awfully cheesy, in my opinion, but is Mr. Al Fayed right? Is this better than nothing?
Michelle Obama is Marie Antoinette? No, says Tea at Trianon blogger Elena Maria Vidal (who is the author of Trianon: A Novel of Royal France).
It was only a matter of time. U.S. first lady Michelle Obama is (1) a woman and (2) famous, so naturally she was first compared to Princess Diana, and is now being compared to — you guessed it — Marie Antoinette.
Let them eat tapas? Mrs Obama faces holiday fury
The right’s comparison of Michelle Obama and Marie Antoinette is more astute than they realize
Scary Queen Mary advert banned
Below: the real Queen Mary I. Image source: Wikimedia Commons under the GNU Free Documentation License.
“Sarah, Duchess of York’s appearance on Oprah showed how… therapy-babble has spread like a virus across the world,” says a Telegraph writer.
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