Nine Kings In One Photo
This photograph was taken in May 1910, during the funeral of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, held in London. The event gathered nearly every major monarch of Europe — a dazzling display of royal power and kinship just four years before the outbreak of World War I. The monarchs in the photograph are:
Standing (left → right):
King Haakon VII of Norway
Tsar (King) Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
King Manuel II of Portugal
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
King George I of Greece (the Hellenes)
King Albert I of Belgium.
Seated (left → right):
King Alfonso XIII of Spain
King George V of the United Kingdom
King Frederick VIII of Denmark.
by Affectionate_Run7414
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So many medals and awards… Did any of them ever leave the castle? The Ruling class does so much for us.. /s
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for a better description of what it was like to see these fellows…. how about the opening paragraph of the Pulitzer Prize winning book *The Guns Of August* by Barbara Tuchman:
*So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration. In scarlet and blue and green and purple, three by three the sovereigns rode through the palace gates, with plumed helmets, gold braid, crimson sashes, and jeweled orders flashing in the sun. After them came five heirs apparent, forty more imperial or royal highnesses, seven queens–four dowager and three regnant–and a scattering of special ambassadors from uncrowned countries. Together they represented seventy nations in the greatest assemblage of royalty and rank ever gathered in one place and, of its kind, the last. The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history’s clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.*
I can’t help but notice Nikolay Romanov isn’t here