Prince Amedeo and Princess Elisabetta of Belgium, Archduke and Archduchess of Austria-Este, have welcomed their second child, a son named Maximilian, born in Brussels on Friday, 6 September. The couple’s first child, Archduchess Anna Astrid, was born in 2016. Amedeo and Elisabetta married in 2014. For further news and articles about Europe’s Gotha families, join…

Hello Subscribers and Eurohistory readers, Its has been some time since I last posted anything on the blog! All subscribers are getting a personal letter from me inside Issue CXVII, which we begin mailing on March 21! The magazine is being picked up at our old printer in Berkeley tomorrow afternoon. I have some advance…

  Wednesday, 6 January 2021, will not be a day that is fondly remembered by citizens and residents of the United States of America. On this date, the current occupant of the Presidency of the United States presided over a rally in the morning/early afternoon, during which he called for his supporters to “march” to…

This week, amidst some rather bleak news, there was an happy announcement from the Royal House of Hannover. Prince Christian and Princess Alessandra of Hannover are expecting twins in Summer 2020. The children will be the first offspring for the couple. Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’ozaOfFiyRNViWZmkrRiPMA’,sig:’VLfvDCLppck-qFPt6akUEHady2xRu8V8xAouvd-Iqq4=’,w:’594px’,h:’419px’,items:’932900338′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); On 24 November 2017, Prince…

A Gotha Quiz: Who Am I? By Darren Shelton for the European Royal History Journal. My maternal grandfather at one time was mooted as heir to a throne he did not inherit, although in time he was to become a reigning sovereign on his brother’s death. I was born to a well-known mother who was…

HIH Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia.  Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna with Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna at the baby’s baptism. The charm bracelet created by Grand Duke Vladimir and Grand Duchess Leonida to celebrate their daughter Grand Duchess Maria’s birth. The Little Heiress. On 23 December 1953, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia was born…

The Prince and Princess of Prussia, 2011. Photo (c) Getty Images / Andreas Rentz. Today, the Prince and Princess of Prussia celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary! One of the engagement pictures of Georg Friedrich and Sophie. The engagement of Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia and Princess Sophie of Isenburg was announced in January 2011. They…

Princess Mechtilde zu Leiningen and her husband Karl-Anton Bauscher speak with Hereditary Prince Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen at the funeral of Fürst Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 2004. On 12 February 2021, Mechtilde Bauscher died at Bamberg. She was eighty-five years-old.  Princess Mechtilde’s mother Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna. Born at Würzburg on 2 January 1936, HSH Princess Mechtilde…

Early this morning (27 April), HI&RH Prince Bertrand, Prince Imperial of Brazil, was admitted to hospital at São Paolo. This forced the prince to miss a meeting of monarchists that he was due to attend later in the day. The reasons for the prince’s hospitalisation are unknown. Bertrand was encouraged by doctors to rest at…