European History

† Doña Cristina de Borbón y Hardenberg (1975-2020)   Doña Cristina de Borbón y Hardenberg Doña Cristina de Borbón y Hardenberg died on Thursday, 13 February 2020, at Madrid. She had been admitted to the Puerto de Hierro hospital following an accident which led to her passing. Cristina was forty-four years-old. She was surrounded by her…

    It has recently been made known that Prince Anton Esterházy von Galántha (b.1936) remarried in June 2013 to Svetlanta Nyikolajevna (b.1956). The couple have been together for fifteen years. Anton is the only child of Prince Antal Esterházy von Galántha (1903-k.i.a. 1944) and Countess Gabriella Apponyi de Nagy-Appony (1910-1986). Prince Anton, Princess Ursula,…

Grand Duke George of Russia and his pup King RomanoffPhotograph (c) Grand Duke George of Russia Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia has shared a couple of pictures of his new dog, King, whom the grand duke adopted. King is eight years-old, and was abandoned by his previous owner. George posted a touching message about…

Prince Alexis of Hesse with his dog Paul Photograph (c) Werra Rundschau At the link, feel free to view a delightful piece by DW News on Prince Alexis and Landgrave of Hesse (of the Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld line) and his family’s home of Schloss Augustenau. Prince Alexis, who studied art history, has managed Schloss Augustenau and its…

Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’HfYao4TVSoVXGFV3dF5LnQ’,sig:’eTUpgaB2cSOA59dt3t7X6bto5BXtQP2T2xLvfaHKWSQ=’,w:’396px’,h:’594px’,items:’1150180265′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); Fürst Alexander zu Schaumburg-Lippe has announced that he and his fiancée Mahkameh Navabi, a concert pianist of Iranian extraction, have decided to postpone their religious marriage. This was scheduled to take place in September 2020. Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’czK9Ze6EQ9196XDPM_JUfw’,sig:’mK3m4ujibfnZyOj2WCvonv7XHfpMSozH4cMC5XeglYQ=’,w:’396px’,h:’594px’,items:’1158323978′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); In an article…

Today, Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein and his twin sister Princess Diemut celebrate their 70th birthdays! The twins were born at Vienna on 1 April 1949 as the eldest children of Prince Hans-Moritz of Liechtenstein (1914-2004) and Princess Clotilde of Thurn and Taxis (1922-2009), who had married in 1944. The little princess was named Diemut Margarete Maria Benedicta Anna;…

Princess Beatrice of York and Count Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi were photographed yesterday evening (9 July) after leaving Annabel’s in London. The pair have been in a relationship since late 2018. Beatrice and Edoardo attended the wedding of Beatrice’s second cousin-once-removed Lady Gabriella Windsor and Mr Thomas Kingston in May 2019.  Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’AjXVOMLHSHddwQ5rOhtH2g’,sig:’HxPR5MAQKf4A66_nbZ1UW1U9bpK9dWyu3XRiLoCY4a4=’,w:’594px’,h:’459px’,items:’1150256180′,caption:…

Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’mZaKatCISkV2VaiM9AKwZQ’,sig:’hxY4UCkY3m7kGj5XjX3gPmdWgbjeA1_ckLlz2cxdmPo=’,w:’395px’,h:’594px’,items:’518519188′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); Thirty-seven years ago today, on the morning of 9 July 1982, thirty-three year-old Michael Fagan (a depressed father of three whose marriage was falling apart) scaled the fourteen foot walls of Buckingham Palace and shimmied up a drainpipe: he then entered the palace through a window…