Archduke Ferdinand of Austria spent this Christmas in Abu Dhabi with his father Archduke Karl and his younger sister Archduchess Gloria. The family stayed at the Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort. Ferdinand put together an amusing and charming film of the trio’s Christmas holiday for others to view and enjoy. Ferdinand von Habsburg, well-known for…
Prince Joachim and Princess Yasmine at Les Invalides, 5 May.Photograph (c) Frederic de Natal. This week, Prince Joachim Murat (b.1973) and Princess Yasmine (b.1982; née Briki) announced that they are expecting their first child. The couple civilly married in Paris on 5 March; their child is due to be born at the end of the…
Photograph courtesy of the Russian Imperial Chancellery. Photograph courtesy of the Russian Imperial Chancellery. Photograph courtesy of the Russian Imperial Chancellery. Today, 20 January 2021, the Chancellery of the Imperial House of Russia announced the engagement of HIH Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and Nob. Rebecca Virginia Bettarini. The statement reads…
Alexander and Hande. Picture courtesy of the Grand Ducal House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Today Their Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg announced the engagement of their eldest son His Highness Hereditary Prince Alexander of Mecklenburg to Hande Macit. The hereditary prince and his fiancée at the Hermitage Amsterdam, August 2020. Picture courtesy of the Grand Ducal…
Princess Maria. Maria Madelaine (de) Kossaczky was born on 9 December 1924 at Budapest, Hungary, as the only child of Major General Árpád Vitéz Kossaczky (Szeleste, Austria-Hungary 9 April 1886-Miami, Florida 24 June 1967) and Ilona Wallner (Nagyszombat, Austria-Hungary 16 November 1891-Greenwich, Connecticut 3 December 1983). Árpád and Ilona were married on 10 November…
Today, His Majesty King Constantine II of Greece celebrates his eightieth birthday. Embed from Getty Images Crown Prince Pavlos and Crown Princess Frederica with their children Princess Sophia and Prince Constantine Embed from Getty Images Prince Constantine of Greece and Denmark was born at Psychiko Palace, Greece, on 2 June 1940. Crown…
Hereditary Grand Duke Nikolaus of Oldenburg and Princess Helene of Waldeck and Pyrmont Hereditary Grand Duchess Helene of Oldenburg Hereditary Grand Duke Nikolaus of Oldenburg and Hereditary Grand Duchess Helene (née Waldeck und Pyrmont) On 3 January 1940, Hereditary Grand Duke Nikolaus of Oldenburg (1897-1970) and his wife Hereditary Grand Duchess Helene (1899-1948; née Princess…
The Brazilian imperial sarcophagi (from left to right): Princess Imperial Isabel, Emperor Pedro II, Empress Teresa Cristina and Prince Gaston at the Catedral de São Pedro de Alcântara. Photo (c) Seth B. Leonard. One hundred years ago, on 14 November 1921, Princess Imperial Isabel of Brazil, Countess d’Eu, died at the Chateau d’Eu in France at the age of…
Her Majesty The Queen’s New Year Address 2020. Tonight, we see another turn of the year. We look ahead and we look back. We look ahead with confidence and expectation, and we look back – did the year turn out the way we had hoped? No! – The year 2020 brought us what nobody had…
Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’GkhFzuyJRGdx67ni7v_9Uw’,sig:’q7oAaqFbykZ6Ov9K42dCS8sH-L5DCiDzenOhye2CVFs=’,w:’594px’,h:’396px’,items:’1135395915′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); In addition to her mother, Princess Beatrice of York was also in Bahrain during the official visit of the Duke of York to the Middle East. The princess was accompanied by Count Edoardo “Edo” Mapelli Mozzi. Beatrice and Edoardo met in September 2018. He is the son…