Hacker News with Generative AI: Royal Family

Belgium Belgium's future queen caught up in Harvard foreign student ban (theguardian.com)
Princess Elisabeth, the 23-year-old future queen of Belgium, has just completed her first year at Harvard University but the ban imposed by Donald Trump’s administration on foreign students studying there could jeopardise her continued attendance.
International Relations, Politics, Education, Royal Family
10 points by iancmceachern 11 hours ago | 0 comments
Murdoch's UK tabloids apologize to Prince Harry and admit intruding on Diana (apnews.com)
Murdoch’s U.K. tabloids apologize to Prince Harry and admit intruding on the late Princess Diana
Royal Family, Media, Privacy, Apology, United Kingdom
6 points by ripe 121 days ago | 0 comments
MI5 files suggest queen not briefed on spy Blunt in royal household for 9 years (theguardian.com)
The late Queen Elizabeth II was not told for almost 10 years that Anthony Blunt, a surveyor of the queen’s pictures and a member of the royal household, had confessed to being a Soviet double agent, previously secret security files suggest.
History, Royal Family, Espionage, Intelligence, United Kingdom
6 points by bookofjoe 129 days ago | 0 comments
A murder that shook British India and toppled a king (bbc.co.uk)
It looked like an ordinary murder.
History, Crime, British India, Royal Family
16 points by zeristor 132 days ago | 9 comments
Gustav III of Sweden's coffee experiment (wikipedia.org)
Gustav III of Sweden's coffee experiment was a purported twin study ordered by the king to study the health effects of coffee.
History, Science, Experiments, Royal Family, Sweden
6 points by IdealeZahlen 134 days ago | 0 comments
Don't Take Advice from a Habsburg (thedial.world)
For two decades, Marie Antoinette’s mother gave birth almost annually. She had her first child in 1737 at age 20 and her 16th in 1756 at 39. The future queen of France, born Maria Antonia, was child number 15, and arrived the day after the calamitous 1755 Lisbon earthquake, whose tremors were felt across Europe. For her mother, the Habsburg empress Maria Theresa, these quakes of body and earth coincided with those of politics.
History, Austria, Monarchy, France, Royal Family
79 points by lermontov 256 days ago | 82 comments
King John's Lost Treasure (historytoday.com)
History, Archaeology, Treasure, Royal Family, England
16 points by benbreen 275 days ago | 3 comments
How to Fold a Suit, According to King Charles's Former Suit Maker (nytimes.com)
Fashion, Clothing, Royal Family, Lifestyle
18 points by bookofjoe 322 days ago | 1 comments
The Queen's Doll's House (clairelevans.substack.com)
History, Royal Family, Culture
53 points by arbesman 325 days ago | 19 comments
A Kingly Proposal: Letter from Julian Assange to King Charles III (2023) (declassifieduk.org)
Politics, Royal Family, Julian Assange, Letters
16 points by miles 331 days ago | 0 comments