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Alexandra Feodorovna (Russian: Александра Фёдоровна; 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1872 – 17 July 1918), born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, was the last Empress of Russia as the consort of Tsar Nicholas II from their marriage on 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March [O.S. 2 March] 1917.
A prude is a person with a very sensitive attitude and narrowness towards custom and morality. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The word prude comes from the Old French word prudefemme also prodefemme meaning loyal, respectable or modest woman, [ 3 ] which was the source of prude in the 18th century. [ 1 ]
Katharina Blum is a young divorcee who works as a housekeeper for a famous corporate lawyer, Hubert Blorna, and his wife, Trude. She is nicknamed "the nun" for her prudish lifestyle, but at a carnival party she meets and quickly falls in love with Ludwig Götten, whom police have been following, suspecting him of being an anarchist, a bank robber, and a terrorist.
Photographers took snapshots of Kanye West and his wife of two years as they stopped by Azabudai Hills, a business park in the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan. The 24-time Grammy Award winner and his ...
Emma Thompson stars in this steamy comedy about a retired teacher searching for the adventurous sex life denied to her by her late, prudish husband. When she meets sex worker Leo Grande, (Daryl ...
Although seemingly prudish (she no longer sleeps in the same bed as her husband, for "medical reasons"), Marjorie takes a liking to Harold despite him being a good twenty years her junior, and they begin to have a clandestine affair. Marjorie insists that Harold refer to her as "mum", giving more than a little oedipal slant to their lustful antics.
Peter Fryer's book Mrs Grundy: Studies in English Prudery concerns prudish behaviour, such as the use of euphemisms for underwear. Jack London uses Mrs Grundy in his books The People of the Abyss and The Sea-Wolf. In the former he describes the early twentieth century attitude of the English working class towards drunkenness: "Mrs Grundy rules ...
The Self-Portrait with His Wife and a Glass of Champagne in the catalog raisonné (BC 234), [1] (full: Self-portrait with Charlotte Berend and champagne goblet; German: Selbstporträt mit Charlotte Berend und Sektkelch [2]), is a painting by the German painter Lovis Corinth.