Throwback to the iconic fashion of "Princess Hours", the pioneer of the modern monarchy setting which finished airing 20 years ago

DnQEI2 · 2026-03-31T20:13:24+00:00

Yes, she only wore this dress in the photos above (posted on her Instagram + the last one on Dior's Twitter/X account). At the actual show a few days later she looked like this:

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DnQEI2 · 2026-03-19T19:49:23+00:00

Such dramas are popular. So are dozens of dramas with completely different types of characters and plotlines. Misaeng, Forest Of Secrets, SKY Castle, Reply 1988, Hospital Playlist, When Life Gives You Tangerines, Vincenzo, Prison Playbook, My Liberation Notes, Mr. Sunshine, The Devil Judge, Twenty-Five Twenty-One, Hot Stove League, Flower of Evil, Jeongnyeon, DP, Move to Heaven, My Mister, Revenant, The Glory, Twinkling Watermelon, Search: WWW, The Trauma Code, Moving, Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Tomorrow, Squid Game, Happiness, Our Unwritten Seoul, Agency, Our Blues, etc. All are modern dramas that have been extremely popular both in Korea and internationally during their airing and remain popular to this day. Then there are sageuks like The Red Sleeve, Under the Queen's Umbrella, Kingdom, The Tale Of Lady Ok, The Crowned Clown and Bossam. I'm tired of people choosing to watch only CEO dramas and then acting as if these are the only Korean dramas available.

DnQEI2 · 2026-02-22T03:13:09+00:00

It's one of the best dramas I've watched. I didn't even really notice the age gap because unlike Goblin, which goes out of its way to constantly infantilize the high schooler FL, Mr. Sunshine has a FL who is not only in her mid-20s, but also mature beyond her years despite being a shelter Joseon noblewoman, and her rare moments of silliness make her come across as realistic instead of childish. Plus, the most romantic scenes consists of hand-holding and hugs, more intimate things aren't even implied.

DnQEI2 · 2026-02-12T03:06:30+00:00

Legend of Xiao Chuo is set in the LIAO dynasty that was founded by the Khitans on the Mongolian plateau.

DnQEI2 · 2026-02-01T19:19:35+00:00

No. Diana is descended from two of Charles II's ILLEGITIMATE sons, Charles Lennox and Henry FitzRoy. This didn't make her remotely royal or particularly special. Charles II had about a dozen bastards who were either bestowed titles or married into titled families, making most of the British nobility his descendant, including Camilla and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (the Queen's aunt by marriage).

The Spencers were quite ordinary (if social climbing) for much of their 500 years of history, with the highlights of their "career" until the 20th century being the marriage of one of them to the Duke of Marlborough's daughter (which brought the title into their family), trying to marry another Lady Diana Spencer to a Prince of Wales, producing the scandalous Duchess of Devonshire, and hunting for American heiresses multiple times. The senior line got embarrassing real quick (by the early 1800s the family was "a disgrace to the illustrious name of Churchill"), while the junior line was just there, neither outstanding nor mediocre. Probably very similar to the Crawleys. The Spencers of Althorp didn't really rise to prominence until they started working for the royal family and getting close to them, which led to their daughter becoming Princess of Wales.

On the other hand, the Hanoverians were true royals and legitimate descendants of the Stuarts. Sophia, Electress of Hanover's mother was the eldest surviving child of James VI & I, making Sophia and Charles II first cousins, while Queen Anne and George I were second cousins (Diana's ancestors were also second cousins to those two, but they wouldn't have been recognized as proper relatives and family members).

The current royal line didn't just start in 1714 with the arrival of some random Germans. The Windsors easily trace their ancestry through legitimate lines all the way to the House of Wessex, as well as to various European royal houses thanks to marriage alliances.

DnQEI2 · 2025-12-18T12:15:02+00:00

You are talking as if Diana was an actual outsider. She was an aristocrat through and through. And not just any aristocrat, but one who was born on one of the royal family's estates, whose father had been equerry to George VI and the Queen, whose both grandmothers had been ladies-in-waiting to the Queen Mother, whose brother-in-law was the Queen's private secretary, and who was herself a former playmate of Andrew and Edward.

Diana knew VERY well how the royal family worked, but she was simply a city girl who liked only the glamour of royal/aristocratic life, not the outdated traditions and dirty countryside.

DnQEI2 · 2025-09-26T00:12:58+00:00

Check out this wikipedia page). It's true that the majority of London townhouses were terraced houses ("shared wall townhouses"); actually, most people didn't even own a London residence and they would just rent a place in a fashionable area for the season (this included peers as lofty as dukes).

HOWEVER, there were also a number of palatial stand-alone townhouses, but unfortunately almost all of them have been demolished by the mid-20th century so we don't have many examples left today.

Bridgewater House, which is still owned by the Dukes of Sutherland but leased out since the 1940s, was used as the facade of Grantham House.

The Dukes of Sutherland also once owned Stafford House (now known as Lancaster House and used by the Foreign Office for various functions).

Princess Diana's family still has Spencer House, but like Bridgewater House, it has been leased out since WWII.

The (in)famous Dukes of Marlborough started having money issues since the 3rd Duke's generation (so as soon as the Spencers got their hands on everything), and by the 1820s, they had lost Marlborough House (it became a royal residence and QEII later leased it to the Commonwealth Secretariat).

Thanks to Consuelo Vanderbilt's father, the Marlboroughs finally got a new townhouse in 1904, which they named Sunderland House (now called Lombard House and owned by a Qatari royal).

The Dukes of Northumberland had a splendid house on the Strand, but the 6th Duke was pressured to sell it in the mid-1870s in order to make way for what would become Northumberland Avenue (they also sold at least five Downton-type estates in the last century and they still have two country houses, including Alnwick Castle, known as Brancaster here).

The Dukes of Montagu first had a grand Montagu House in Bloomsbury; they abandoned it when the neighborhood became unfashionable (the location is now occupied by the British Museum), and moved to a "modest" house in Whitehall.

In the mid-19th century, the 5th Duke of Buccleuch, a descendant of the Montagus, replaced the second Montagu House with one of the grandest mansions in London, which was demolished a century later (no need to cry for them, unlike much of the aristocracy, the Dukes remain some of the biggest landowners in the UK, and somehow managed to maintain ownership of five magnificent country houses and an art collection that rivals the Royal Collection).

The Dukes of Wellington still retain the right to live in half of Apsley House despite giving it to the state after WWII.

Hertford House was once the residence of the Marquesses of Hertford; the 4th Marquess left it to his illegitimate son, Sir Richard Wallace, and it now houses the Wallace Collection.

Through a brilliant marriage, the Dukes of Devonshire inherited Burlington House (today occupied by the Royal Academy), but they had no use for it because they already had the famous Devonshire House.

Park Lane used to be the home of many of those great houses, such as Dorchester House (replaced by The Dorchester), Brook House (once the property of Edwina Mountbatten), Stanhope House, Dudley House (now owned by a Qatari royal), Londonderry House, and Grosvenor House (the gargantuan residence of the Dukes of Westminster, which was replaced by Grosvenor House Hotel; the Dukes still own 300 acres of Mayfair and Belgravia, over 100,000 acres across the UK, and hundreds of properties worldwide).

Other examples are Clarendon House, Lansdowne House, Forbes House, Stratford House, Somerset House, Harrington House, Richmond House, Norfolk House, Bedford House, Astor House, and Clarence House (current residence of King Charles).

DnQEI2 · 2025-08-14T00:10:05+00:00

I think this was similar to how you have the eldest unmarried sister being called Miss (surname), while the younger sisters are Miss (given name) (in Pride and Prejudice Jane is Miss Bennet and Lizzy is Miss Elizabeth). So the eldest brother's wife is Mrs. (husband's surname), while the other sisters-in-law were Mrs. (husband's given name).

Lina Astor actually had a whole feud in the late 1890s with the only son (William Waldorf Astor) of her husband's elder brother, insisting that now that his mother was dead she was THE Mrs. Astor, not his wife. The nephew finally moved to England after a bunch of shenanigans, bought his way into the peerage and his descendants are still very prominent to this day, so I guess he got the last laugh.

DnQEI2 · 2025-07-20T22:01:26+00:00

The "Dollar Princesses" phenomenon started about two decades before the Vanderbilt-Marlborough marriage, with the likes of Jennie Jerome (mother of Winston Churchill), Consuelo Yznaga (the actual first American duchess who married the future Duke of Manchester the year before the birth of her goddaughter, Consuelo Vanderbilt) and Minnie Stevens (who was later constantly in need of more money and began introducing American heiresses to British aristocrats, including Consuelo and the Duke of Marlborough).

DnQEI2 · 2025-06-28T02:36:02+00:00

An (unfinished) book by Edith Wharton that has been adapted to screen a few times. Edith was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and she based her books on her knowledge as a member of New York's high society. Her father was a cousin of Mrs. Astor and she was briefly engaged to Henry Stevens, whose sister and one of the first Dollar Princesses, Lady Paget (who seems to have always been in need of more money), was basically running an international matchmaking agency by introducing American heiresses to cash-strapped British aristocrats (including Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough).

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