Women in World War II

CHANEL BECOMES THE EXCLUSIVE AND HISTORIC SPONSOR OF THE RENOVATION OF THE GRAND PALAIS

As a House dedicated to creation that is open to the world and turned toward the future, CHANEL renews its commitment to an initiative taken by its founder Gabrielle Chanel, by supporting the cultural and artistic stature of Paris.

Europe's Royals to Gather for Romanian Ex-King's Funeral

Members of several European royal houses, as well as royals from as far away as Bahrain and Japan, are set to gather in Bucharest at the end of the week to attend the funeral of Romania's last monarch, King Michael I, who died last week aged 96.

The king died at his modest residence in the village of Aubonne , in Switzerland, after over a year of battling cancer.

Romanian Ex-King Michael Dies Aged 96

Romania's former king, Michael I, passed away on Tuesday aged 96 at his residence in Versoix, near Geneva in Switzerland, following a battle with cancer, the royal family announced.

Michael, 94, a cousin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth and the last surviving head of state from World War II, retired from public life in spring 2016.

Anne Frank died earlier than thought, new study says

Jewish teenager Anne Frank died in a Nazi concentration camp at least a month earlier than her official date of death, a new study said on March 31.
      
"New research... has shed fresh light on the last days of Anne Frank and her sister Margot," the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam said on Tuesday, until now her official death date.
      

Anne Frank's Story Revisited in Zagreb

Visitors to the Tresnja children's theatre in Zagreb will have an opportunity on Friday to see the keenly awaited premiere of "Anne Frank", a play based on the real story of a Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied Holland who kept a secret diary.

Frank wrote the diary between June 1942 and August 1944 while her family was hiding in an attic in Amsterdam.