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Princess Geraldine of Albania is One!

Princess Geraldine with her parents Crown Princess Elia and Crown Prince Leka.Picture courtesy of HRH Crown Princess Elia. Today, Princess Geraldine of Albania celebrates her first birthday!   The princess was born at 9:30am on Thursday, 22 October 2020, at the Queen Geraldine Maternity Hospital in Tirana. Geraldine is the first child of Crown Prince…

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Count Jan Bernadotte (1941-2021)

Count Jan Bernadotte af Wisborg. Count Jan Bernadotte af Wisborg died on 1 September 2021. He was eighty years-old. Count Lennart Bernadotte and Karin Nissvandt, 1932. On 9 January 1941, Count Carl Johan “Jan” Gustaf Vilhelm Bernadotte af Wisborg was born at Stockholm. He was the son of Count Lennart Bernadotte af Wisborg (1909-2004; born Prince…

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Upcoming Baptism in Romania

Nicholas and Alina-Maria with Maria-Alexandra and Michael. Michael of Romania, the only son of Nicholas and Alina-Maria of Romania, will be baptised at the Coronation Cathedral on 18 June at the Coronation Cathedral in Alba Iulia. Announcement from Prince Nicholas of Romania. Michael of Romania was born on 15 April 2022 at Bucharest. He is…

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Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein Turns Fifty!

Today HSH Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein celebrates his fiftieth birthday. The prince was born on 16 May 1969 at St Gallen, Switzerland, and named Maximilian Nikolaus Maria; he is the second son of Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein (b.1945) and Countess Marie Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (b.1940), who married in 1967. Maximilian followed elder brother Hereditary Prince…

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Romanov Weddings: Nicholas Romanoff and Sveva della Gherardesca in 1952

On 21 January 1952, Nicholas Romanovich Romanoff (1922-2014) married Countess Sveva della Gherardesca (b.1930) at the Russian Cathedral in Cannes. Nicholas was the eldest son of Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (1896-1978) and his wife Countess Prascovia Dmitrievna Cheremeteva (1901-1980), who wed in 1921. Sveva was the daughter of Count Walfredo della Gherardesca (1894-1953) and Countess Nicoletta…

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