The birthday boy: Prince Oscar of Sweden.Photograph (c) Kate Gabor. Photograph (c) Kate Gabor. Today, Prince Oscar of Sweden celebrates his fifth birthday! Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne, is the younger child and only son of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and her husband Prince Daniel. Oscar is a grandson of King Carl XVI Gustaf…
“To dear Willie from his loving sister —Maria Antonia. — Christmas 1938” Infanta Maria Antónia of Portugal (1903-1973) in a signed photo to her brother-in-law William Astor Chanler, Jr. (1904-2002). Infanta Maria Antónia of Portugal married Sidney Ashley Chanler in 1934. You can read more about the Infanta and her family here: https://eurohistoryjournal.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-portuguese-infanta-and-blue-blooded.html ______________ For…
Hereditary Prince Alexander and Hereditary Princess Hande of Mecklenburg.Photo (c) Grand Ducal House of Mecklenburg. On 17 September 2022 at 11am, Hereditary Prince Alexander of Mecklenburg and Hereditary Princess Hande will religiously marry at the Stadtkirche in Neusterlitz. The couple were civilly married on 17 June 2022 in the Great Hall in the Palace of…
From the official communiqué released by the Grand Duchy… The state of health of Grand Duke Jean has declined since yesterday evening, the cour grand-ducale has announced. Luxembourg‘s former head of state was hospitalised about a week ago following a pulmonary infection. During the course of last week his health had initially improved. The whole…
The newly-married Princess Victoria Romanova greets King Fuad of Egypt. Photo courtesy of King Fouad II. On his official Facebook account, King Fuad II of Egypt has shared some lovely pictures from the recent wedding of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and Princess Victoria Romanovna Romanoff. The king is a long-time friend of Grand Duchess…
The Dowager Princess Napoléon (née Princess Clémentine of Belgium), her daughter-in-law the Princess Napoléon (née Alix de Foresta), and her son the Prince Napoléon. The trio are here photographed near their residence at Prangins, near Lausanne, in 1949. 14 November 1910: the marriage of Prince Victor Napoléon and Princess Clémentine of Belgium Princess Clémentine of Belgium…
Embed from Getty Images According to an interview given to Vanitatis, Princess Béatrice d’Orléans has stated that she is well and fully recovered after dealing with a mild case of the novel coronavirus. Embed from Getty Images The princess, who is seventy-eight years-old, developed a minor form of the disease and recovered from it while…
Photograph courtesy of India Hicks. Lady Pamela Hicks (b.1929; née Mountbatten) received the Covid-19 vaccine today in the village in which she lives at Oxfordshire. The ninety-one year-old is the only surviving daughter of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg) and his wife the Edwina Ashley. Lady Pamela is a…
Archduchess Adélaïde of Austria has shared a picture of herself with her young son Archduke Josef. Archduke Christoph and Archduchess Adélaïde of Austria on their wedding day. Adélaïde Drapé-Frisch married Archduke Christoph of Austria in December 2012. The couple have three children: Archduchess Katarina (b.2014), Archduchess Sophie (b.2017), and Archduke Josef (b.2020).
On Thursday, 16 April 2020, Prince Georg-Friedrich zu Waldeck und Pyrmont passed away at the age of eighty-three. The prince was a first cousin of the head of the princely family, Fürst Wittekind zu Waldeck und Pyrmont (b.1936). The death notice of Prince Georg-Friedrich zu Waldeck und Pyrmont His Serene Highness Prince Georg-Friedrich Nikolaus…