The original, without AI colourisation. "Nicky", as he was called, was the son of King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Romania (he inherited her high colouring and electric blue eyes). A good student without being brilliant, Nicky was interested anything mechanical, like cars.

But also it outright isnt true. This is all a result of people not knowing how film photography works and what ‘colourisation’ is. These photos were originally b&w, it was the cheaper film and most of these photographers were actually newspaper photographers.

You won’t traumatise anyone with your free AI software, but poor colourisation will be a curse on family history research for years to come. The insignia is only hard to work out if you don’t know what you are looking at, but tacky AI makes a difficult job much harder.

The distortion of history caused by colourisation is causing damage we will be stuck with for the foreseeable future, with cap badges and insignia impossible to decipher and guesswork colours creating fantasy versions of the past.

First time I really thought a colourisation captured the true Hanoverian blue eyes of Queen Victoria. Queen Missy inherited them.

The original, without AI colourisation. I believe this was during the Romanian royal couple's State Visit to the UK in 1924. No longer the wasp-waisted young girl as she had left, but still retaining her dazzling eyes and features.

The original, without AI colourisation. c1923-26. I have gone back-and-forth in my mind about the Duke of Windsor's claims that Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was more into him than Bertie. He WAS that vain to think that. But it sounds like something Wallis put in his mind.

Thank you for another AI Slop colourisation. His dress uniform was scarlet

The original, without AI colourisation. I'll tell you why she had short hair later.

The original, without AI colourisation. Dude. I'm overwhelmed. These colourisations bring tears to my eyes. It's a hundred times better than actresses portraying them onscreen.

The original, without AI colourisation. The Winter Palace. January 1900. Alix had her maid bring Eira to her from Darmstadt. It had been bred in her grandmother's kennels. I can't believe how British Alix was. Even her dog's name was Welsh! It means "snow".

The original, without AI colourisation. Mind blown. Completely. Hairstylist: Pavel Petrovich Pinasso, whose dad had owned the fashionable salon in the Nevsky Prospekt (St Petersburg) called "Lucien".

Oh you will NOT believe the next colourisation I'm posting. It's incredible.

Day 53 of building PhotoScanRestore 139 subscribers ☑️ Colourisation testing update: 1. Vibrant/Fake (Bad) 2. Muted/Natural (Good) Believable beats impressive every time. I want history, not a filter.

The original, without colourisation. The reason Queen Victoria isn't there MIGHT be because she was still sore Beatrice found a Prince to marry. See, like Princess Toria, she had counted on keeping one daughter a spinster to take care of her. When Beatrice fell in love with "Liko" (his nickname), Queen Victoria pouted. Refused to let her marry him. Mama Queen went dark on Beatrice -- refused to speak to her for almost a year (outside of the common courtesies). She would pass a note on the dinner table if she needed something. Beatrice was unmoved. Queen Victoria either allowed her daughter to marry or was faced with a sepuchral silence for the rest of her life. She relented.

The original, without AI colourisation. Back row: Princess Maud of Wales (future Queen Maud of Norway). Princess Alix of Hesse (future Tsarina of Russia). Princess Marie-Louise of Schleswig-Holstein. Front row: Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh (Ducky; future de facto Empress of Russia). Princess Marie of Edinburgh (future Queen Marie of Romania).

The original, without AI colourisation. With Prince Andrew of Greece are his sister, Princess Marie (the other Minny), and her daughters, Princesses Nina and Xenia. Also shown, her 2nd hubby. Minny was not tall, but Princess Alice, Prince Philip's mother, was . She was 5'9.

Stop me if you've heard this before, but here's another stunning colourisation! It shows little Princess Ella with her first-cousins, the Battenbergs. Tall thin Princess Louise. Wiry Prince George. And the baby, you will never guess who it is. The future Lord Mountbatten!!

The original, without AI colourisation. The cousins are shown in Ella's little playhouse, which by order of Ernie, no adult could enter or impose rules. Since the divorce stipulated that Ella had to spend 6 months with each parent, Ernie made sure, in that divorced parent way that his daughter had something fun to come back to. Maybe so she could prefer him to the mama. Hey. People are human, right?