"$44 Billion"
$7 billioncould have ended hunger in the world, but you chose vanity. Well done genius.

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Alfonso XIII - Vanity Fair, 21 January 1893

He was King of Spain from 17 May 1886 to 14 April 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed. He was a monarch from birth as his father, Alfonso XII, had died the previous year.

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This man is fully my OC now, sorry to this man
(session for 1993 Vanity Fair, I imagine)

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💜All the tears you have shed in life are in this cup. They are precious. Each one. Flowers have grown from the moisture. There will be no more tears. Everyone's eyes are dry. There is no place for vanity...💜
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All the tears you have shed in life are in this cup. They are precious. Each one. Flowers have grown from the moisture. There will be no more tears. Everyone's eyes are dry. There is no place for vanity...
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George Frederic Watts, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 26 December 1891

He was a British painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. He said "I paint ideas, not things."

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A.N. "Monkey" Hornby, by Henry Charles Seppings Wright. - Vanity Fair, 15 August 1891

He was one of the best-known sportsmen in England during the nineteenth century excelling in both rugby and cricket.

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Henry Tufton, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 17 August 1889

He was a British peer, Liberal politician and prominent owner and breeder of racehorses.

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Ferdinand James von Rothschild, by "Hay" - Vanity Fair, 15 June 1889

He was a British Jewish banker, art collector and politician. He died at Waddesdon Manor on his 59th birthday, thought to be the result of a cold caught when last visiting his wife's tomb.

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Carlo Pellegrini, by Arthur H Marks. - Vanity Fair, 27 April 1889

Pellegrini, who did much of his work under the pseudonym of Ape, was an Italian artist who served from 1869 to 1889 as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair magazine. He died of lung disease aged 49 at his home in 1889

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John Bright, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 6 April 1889

He was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies.

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Archibald Levin Smith, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 3 November 1888

He was a British judge and a rower who competed at Henley and in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.

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Polydore de Keyser, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 26 November 1887

He was a lawyer and the first Roman Catholic since the Reformation to be elected Lord Mayor of London (October 1887–November 1888). He was born in the Belgian city of Dendermonde, near Ghent, Belgium.

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William Ewart Gladstone, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 5 November 1887

He served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-consecutive terms beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894.

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Lord Coleridge, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 5 March 1887

John Duke Coleridge was an English lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. Despite his health failing towards the end of his life he remained in this office until his death on 14 June 1894, aged 74.

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Louis Pasteur, by Théobald Chartran - Vanity Fair, 8 January 1887

Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization.

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Lord Egerton of Tatton, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 27 November 1886

Wilbraham Egerton was an English Conservative Party politician. A bust of Egerton by Kathleen Shaw is on display at Tatton Park.

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Sir AK Rollit, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 9 October 1886

Albert Kaye Rollit was a British politician, lawyer, and businessman. His second wife's jewellery, then valued at £30,000, was stolen by international jewel-thief William Johnson, known as 'Harry the Valet'

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Mr CB Stuart-Wortley, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 11 September 1886

Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley was a British Conservative politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department between 1885–1886 and 1886–1892.

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