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Beautiful 19th century Images of Ireland
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Queen Victoria on Her Final Trip to Ireland Long-Lost Film Footage Has Been Rediscovered
Queen Victoria on Her Final Trip to Ireland Long-Lost Film Footage Has Been Rediscovered
Long-Lost Film Footage of Queen Victoria on Her Final Trip ... Queen Victoria's reign predated televised royal weddings and press conferences, but the British monarch did live long enough to see the advent of motion pictures. According to The Telegraph, the clip below, filmed one year before her death, is thought to be among the last footage ever recorded of the queen. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City rediscovered the film in its archive of 68mm nitrate prints and negatives from early cinema history. The footage, captured during Queen Victoria's final trip to Ireland in 1900, shows a different side of the monarch than what she shared in her stoic portraits. She's wearing sunglasses and holding a parasol to protect herself from the sun, and when admirers come up to her, she greets them with a rare smile. "In a moving image you get so much more, even something as brief as this, of the personality, of the presence of this woman," film curator Dave Kehr said in a video from MoMA. Queen Victoria died in 1901, concluding what had been the longest reign of any British monarch at that point in history. Her great-great-granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II has since surpassed that achievement. [h/t The Telegraph] Long-Lost Film Footage of Queen Victoria on Her Final Trip ... 21 II 2024. |
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Grace Kelly.
Grace of Monaco - From Irish roots to Hollywood stardom and international royalty
She was a queen of Hollywood’s vintage ‘Golden Age’ who became a bona-fide princess. But how did Grace Kelly, the granddaughter of an Irish famine-era migrant, rise to become true international royalty? And why did she abandon her glittering movie career? Grace Kelly was a queen of Hollywood’s vaunted ‘Golden Age’, who became a genuine princess. But the Grace Kelly story begins in a village outside County Mayo, where her grandfather lived and worked until he escaped the Great Famine and went in search of the American dream. Born during the depths of the Wall Street crash in 1929, Grace Kelly would enjoy a gilded upbringing before turning her attention to the silver screen, breaking out at the age of 21 with a role in the now-iconic western High Noon. It seemed like a star was born, with the likes of legendary director Alfred Hitchcock among her biggest advocates. And yet, at the age of 26, Grace Kelly abandoned her film career at the peak of her popularity. Grace of Monaco - From Irish roots to Hollywood stardom and international royalty 15 IV 2024. |
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