I think, though I’m not sure, that they were the parents of King George V’s wife Queen Mary.
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Victorian Family Values
That would be Queen Victoria (seated), Prince-Consort Albert, and their 14 year old daughter upon the occasion of introducing their daughter to her new husband. Pre-arranged and underage! She didn’t actually marry the guy till she was 16 and, as a nice postscript, it turned into a lasting and apparently happy marriage.
Christmas, 1852
Tom of Finland Leather Christmas
Leather dude, and his bunker
Nature Boy
Gilles Thierry by Alex Salgues
Painting by James Edward Hervey MacDonald, 1910
Japanese art (featuring Japanese iris, one of my favourite flowers)