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A startling sighting

Since British royalty (except for Lady Colin Campbell) seem singularly free of  feline influence, I thought it noteworthy that there may be a cat statue on desk on the desk in this picture.  This photo dated around March 2022

March 17, 1891

His Who's Who actually is quoted below: Fülop-Miller, René https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U49524 Published online:  01 December 2007 Born  Caransebes, Transylvania,  17 March 1891 ; father of German Protestant ancestry, by profession chemist, mother a descendant from the famous Macedonian family of Brancovitch;  m   1916 , the Hungarian soprano Heddy Bendiner of the Budapest Opera; no  c ;  died   7 May 1963 author Education High Schools of Vienna; Lausanne; Paris studied pharmaceutical chemistry, anatomy, psychiatry Career After educn took up journalism; after the war, several journeys to Soviet Russia which led to the publication of Dostoievski’s and Tolstoi’s posthumous works as well as to Mind and Face of Bolshevism; subsequently successful literary career Member Authors’ Society Publications Mind and Face of Bolshevism (Engl. trans.  1927 ); Lenin and Gandhi (Engl. trans.  1928 ); The Russian Theatre (Engl. trans.  1930 ); Power and Secret of the Jesuits (Engl. t