The 2022 Royal Versailles Ball

Prince Jean-Christophe and Princess Olympia Napoléon. Photo (c) Rowben Lantion/BFA.com.   Last Saturday, 21 May, the Royal Versailles Ball was held at the Palace of Versailles. The Royal Versailles Ball celebrates the historic state visit between Queen Victoria and Emperor Napoléon III in 1855 at Versailles. The Royal Versailles Ball is held to raise money to…

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Archduchess Maria Magdalena of Austria (1939-2021)

Archduchess Maria Magdalena, 2004. The death of Archduchess Maria Magdalena of Austria was announced on Wednesday, 18 August. According to the Romanian royal house, Maria Magdalena died in Salzburg, Austria. The archduchess was eighty-one years-old. Castle Bran’s Facebook account issued the following statement:   At Bran Castle, we mourn the passing into eternity, after a…

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Celebrating the Union of D. Duarte and D. Isabel: The Silver Wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Bragança

On 13 May 1995, Dom Duarte Pio João Miguel Gabriel Rafael de Bragança (b.1945), the Head of the Royal House of Portugal, married Dona Isabel Inês Castro Curvello de Herédia (b.1966). Duarte was the son of Dom Duarte Nuño (1907-1976), Duke of Bragança, and Princess Maria Francisca of Orléans-Bragança (1914-1968); Isabel was the daughter of Dom Jorge de Herédia and…

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