If you’re a fan of the Netflix show The Crown, you’ll know that Queen Elizabeth wears an actual crown fairly regularly. For example, she wears one every
Because of the decay of the once-great Islamic state, the Ottoman Empire, the foreign affairs of many of the powers of Europe around 1853 were consumed .
THE LAST SULTAN. January 1 1911
THE LAST SULTAN.
THE Life of Imperial Princes has no history. This is the interesting statement used in the opening of an article in The Fortnightly Review which purports to give descriptions of the lives of the late Sultan Abdul Hamid and his Brother Murad, of Turkey. The article goes on to say : The life of imperial princes has no history. Cloistered in their palaces, receiving no one, not even permitted to walk where they please, knowing nothing of what is happening at home or abroad, hearing nothing of the outside world but what their tutors, as ignorant as themselves, tell them, deprived of all instruction it is only since the time of the Sultan Aziz that the imperial princes, sons of the reigning Sultan, have received a certain amount of education watched and spied upon incessantly, they spend their lives in the most enervating and brutalising idleness. At fourteen or fifteen