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The Island of the Dolls (Spanish: La Isla de las Muñecas) is a chinampa of the Laguna de Tequila located in the channels of Xochimilco, south of the center of Mexico City, Mexico. It is notable for the multitude of dolls of various styles and colors that can be found throughout the island.
Queen Mary's Dolls' house. Queen Mary's Dolls' House is a doll's house built in the early 1920s, completed in 1924, for the British queen Mary of Teck.It was designed by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, with contributions from many notable artists and craftsmen of the period, including a library of miniature books containing original stories written by authors including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and ...
"The Haunted Dolls' House" is a 1923 short story by M. R. James, collected by him in A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925). It was commissioned by Queen Mary, wife of George V, as a miniature book for her famous Dolls' House, which can still be seen in Windsor Castle.
Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House was completed in 1924 for King George V’s consort as a gift from the nation after the First World War. Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House was completed in 1924 for King ...
Marshall's work includes studies of portraiture, costume, and jewellery, Scottish social life, women's history, analysis of the court of Mary, Queen of Scots, and biographies of Mary of Guise and other subjects. The Days of Duchess Anne: Life in the Household of the Duchess of Hamilton (East Linton: Tuckwell, 1973).
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The Dolls of Mary Queen of Scots, Historic Environment Scotland, 2019; Shopping for Mary, Queen of Scots in 1548: Documents from the National Library of Scotland; Manuscript account of the expenses of the royal children, 1551, (French), BnF Fr. 11207; The Prison Embroideries of Mary, Queen of Scots: V&A
Queen Mary appears as a main character in Rosamund Gravelle's debut play Three Queens, [6] [7] and first played by Becky Black. Set in 1554 the play is about a fictional encounter between Queen Mary I of England, Lady Jane Grey, and Princess Elizabeth Tudor, brought together by their cousin, Cardinal Reginald Pole, the night before Lady Jane Grey is due to be executed.