Scottish nobility

Archibald Kennedy, 12th Earl of Cassillis, Later 1st Marquess of Ailsa.

James IV, King of Scots. Husband of Margaret Tudor.

Charles the IV king of Bohemian and holy Roman emperor

A couple of years later, the Viscount and Viscountess Grimston at the Royal Caledonian Ball, with Rosanagh wearing a very nicediamond and natural pearl belle epoque tiara. Designed as a series of nine diamonf motifs, each topped with a pear-shaped natural pearl.

Arte, dettagli, veli, sensualità e ingenuità ! Art, details, veils, sensuality and naivety!

Their family histories are full of heads on spikes and villages being razed to the ground, but modern Highland clan chiefs face a very different set of problems – including everything from running 60,000-acre estates to manning the tills at the gift shop. Eleanor Doughty spoke to four clan leaders; portrait photographs by Robert Perry and Richard Cannon.

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter whose style incorporated elements of the French Rococo, Bolognese classicism, and nascent Neoclassicism. He was born in Lucca, the son of a goldsmith, Paolino Batoni. He moved to Rome in 1727, and apprenticed with Agostino Masucci, Sebastiano Conca and/or Francesco Imperiale (1679-1740). By the early 1740s, however, he started to receive independent commissions. In 1741, he was inducted into the Accademia di…

“ 1665-1670 Sir Peter Lely - James II when Duke of York ”