Nicolae al Romaniei and his wife Alina-Maria with their daughter Maria-Alexandra. Photo (c) Felicia Simion. Yesterday, 5 December, Nicholas of Romania announced that his wife Alina-Maria is expecting a baby in Spring 2022. This will be the second child for the couple. Nicholas of Romania, a grandson of King Michael and Queen Anne of Romania…
Photo (c) Sabine Brauer of Brauer Photos. Yesterday, 6 October, Countess Beatrix of Schönburg-Glauchau was buried at the Nordfriedhof in Munich, Bavaria. Aged, ninety-one, Beatrix died at hospital in Regensburg on 30 September. Countess Irina, Count Alexander, Princess Gloria, and Count Carl-Alban at the funeral of their mother. Photo (c) Sabine Brauer of Brauer Photos. The funeral of…
Fürst Albrecht of Hohenberg died on 25 February 2021. He was ninety years-old. Duke Max and Duchess Elisabeth of Hohenberg. Fürst Albrecht Philipp Leopold Josef Andreas Hubertus Maria of Hohenberg was born on 4 February 1931 at Artstetten as the third child and third son of Duke Maximilian of Hohenberg (1902-1962) and Countess Elisabeth von…
Princess Birgitta in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 1999.Photo (c) Getty Images / Gianni Ferrari. Today, Princess Birgitta of Sweden celebrates her eighty-fifth birthday. Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden on their wedding day at Coburg, 1932. Princess Birgitta at a little over one month old. Prince Gustaf Adolf and…
On Wednesday, Lecturas magazine ran as its cover a photo of Infanta Cristina next to a recent picture of her husband Iñaki Urdangarin holding hands with another woman (later identified by Lecturas as Ainhoa Armentia) on the beach in Bidart, France. The headline blared: “EXCLUSIVE: WHILE INFANTA CRISTINA LIVES IN SWITZERLAND, IÑAKI WITH ANOTHER WOMAN.” The well-known journalist Pilar Eyre…
On 30 March, the auction house Neumeister will be hosting a magnificent sale: Hidden Treasures – Treasures from the House of Württemberg. The historically significant items contained in the auction come from the estate of Duke Ferdinand Eugen of Württemberg (1925-2020). Neumeister received sixty wooden boxes in 2021; these boxes and the treasures therein were from the…
Queen Marie of Romania from Abis Studio on Vimeo. Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’tTIqgLufSjtXw2cZ5AT4vg’,sig:’HVPXfJPzpAeJuVFIYVTwHfae6_hWHmN707cI32HWopg=’,w:’436px’,h:’594px’,items:’3139588′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); If you are interested, you can rent online the film Queen Marie of Romania (Maria – Inima Romaniei), produced by Abis Studio. It is available with subtitles in English, French, and Romanian. Alexis Sweet Cahill directed the…
Today, the Ducal House of Saxe-Meiningen dances on the brink of extinction. Depending on one’s point of view, there are either one, two, or three male members of the family (each of different generations) who can carry on the dynasty into the future. The current extant branch of the family descends from Prince…
Prince Oskar Arnold in 2013. Photo (c) Detlev Blohm. Prince Oskar Arnold zu Bentheim und Steinfurt died on 3 August 2021 at Burgsteinfurt. Fürst Viktor Adolf. Born on 8 March 1946 at Burgsteinfurt, Prince Oskar Arnold zu Bentheim und Steinfurt was the seventh and last child of Fürst Viktor Adolf zu Bentheim und Steinfurt (1883-1961) and his second wife…
A POET AMONG THE ROMANOVS has arrived at Eurohistory’s headquarters! Our next book, A POET AMONG THE ROMANOVS, by Jorge F. Sáenz is selling now. We just received the physical copies of this gem of a princely biography, which we will soon have in the hands of happy owners. Clients can either purchase their copy…