13 year-old Princess Yvonne of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn and her brother, Prince Alexander, enjoying some royal luxuries, Germany, 1955

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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 56 pts · 284d (2 replies)

Pointless aristocrats of yesteryear look as pointless as aristocrats of today.

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 18 pts · 284d (1 reply)

Also, aristocrats in name only, since 1918. They may have had hereditary wealth, but their legal status was no different from any other citizen.

One's legality/ease in navigating the legal system can be extremely-heavily influenced by hereditary wealth, just sayin'

LodeMike@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 284d (8 replies)

Is that a plastic cup?

Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 284d (1 reply)

I was similarly perplexed, it sure looks like it. I was thinking the photo is AI because of that.

For context: that kind of plastic did not exist in 1955

Looks that the colorized was added.

Here is an article from 2011 with a black and white original of the photo.

Lumisal@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 284d

I was thinking it was frosted glass

Harvey656@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 284d (2 replies)

Looks like paper or frosted glass to my eye. I've seen this image before, nut im afraid I don't remember how long ago, so it could be ai or modified.

LodeMike@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 284d (1 reply)

This is too "children drinking and smoking" for all the models that look this good to produce.

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iz_ok@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 284d (1 reply)

Sure is. It was frowned upon to throw glass into the water when you were done using your cup.

Yeah just throw plastic instead...

victorz@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 284d

Hooookay, wow. And I see she was already betrothed at that age, by the ring on her finger. Or maybe I'm reading into it.