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2. Bed size - Wikipedia

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   Standard North American bed sizes An American hotel room with two queen-size beds The sizes of mattresses use non-numeric labels such as a "king" or "full", but are defined in inches. Historically most beds were "twins" or "doubles" but in the mid-1940s larger mattresses were introduced by manufacturers.

3. Wardrobe of Mary, Queen of Scots - Wikipedia

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   Mary's skirts are shaped by a French farthingale in the Blairs Museum portrait. Masques were the heart of festivities at royal courts. [13] Mary wore farthingales, and danced in masques (with the French governess Françoise d'Humières) in costumes made with lightweight silver and gold fabrics decorated with silver and gold metallic spangles. [14]

4. Marie Antoinette - Wikipedia

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   Marie Antoinette (/ ˌæntwəˈnɛt, ˌɒ̃t -/; [ 1 ]French: [maʁi ɑ̃twanɛt] ⓘ; Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution and the French First Republic. Marie Antoinette was the wife of Louis XVI. Born Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, she was the ...

5. Duvet - Wikipedia

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   A bed with a duvet. A duvet (UK: / ˈ d uː v eɪ / DOO-vay, US: / d uː ˈ v eɪ / doo-VAY; [1] [2] from French duvet 'down'), usually called a comforter or (down-filled) quilt in American English, [3] [4] [5] and a doona in Australian English, [6] is a type of bedding consisting of a soft flat bag filled with either down, feathers, wool, cotton, silk, or a synthetic alternative, and is ...

6. List of French royal consorts - Wikipedia

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   Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, was beheaded during the French Revolution. This is a list of the women who were queens or empresses as wives of French monarchs from the 843 Treaty of Verdun , which gave rise to West Francia , until 1870, when the French Third Republic was declared.

7. Comforter - Wikipedia

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   A white comforter. A comforter (in American English), also known as a doona in Australian English, [1] or a continental quilt (or simply quilt) or duvet in British English, [2] [3] is a type of bedding made of two lengths of fabric or covering sewn together and filled with insulative materials for warmth, traditionally down or feathers, wool or cotton batting, silk, or polyester and other down ...

8. Jewels of Mary, Queen of Scots - Wikipedia

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   French purchases were made from her French incomes, for which few records survive. In 1562 Mary bought 64 large pearls from an Edinburgh goldsmith John Gilbert. Four were added to a gold "pair of hours", 27 were sent to Paris to be made into buttons, and the rest were incorporated in a chain to hang from her girdle with rubies and diamonds. [ 93 ]

9. Palace of Versailles - Wikipedia

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   The Palace of Versailles (/ vɛərˈsaɪ, vɜːrˈsaɪ / vair-SY, vur-SY; [ 1 ] French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d (ə) vɛʁsɑj] ⓘ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the government of France and since 1995 has been ...