Princess Abigail in front of a portrait of Princess Victoria Kaʻiulani. On Monday morning, the death of Princess Abigail Kawānanakoa on Sunday, 11 December, was announced in the Hawaiian language in front of the Iolani Palace in Honolulu: With profound sadness, the Kawananakoa Family, the Hale O Na Alii O Hawaii and Iolani Palace announces…
The Sapieha family: Jan Paweł, Paola, Cristina, Michael, and Anna. On 6 August 2021, Prince Jan Paweł Sapieha-Różański died at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The prince was eighty-five years-old. Born on 26 August 1935 at Warsaw, Jan Paweł was the first of three sons of Prince Jan Andrzej Sapieha-Rozanski and his wife Princess Maria (née Zdziechowska). Prince Jan Paweł had…
Today, Count Karl Eugen von Neipperg celebrates his seventieth birthday. Count Josef Hubert von Neipperg. Born on 20 October 1951 at Schwaigern, Count Maria Karl Eugen Johannes Nepomuk Erwin Michael von Neipperg was the first child of Count Josef Hubert von Neipperg (1918-2020) and Countess Maria von Ledebur-Wicheln (1920-1984). Karl Eugen has seven younger siblings: Count Reinhard (b.1953), Countess…
On Sunday afternoon, King Albert of Belgium and his wife Queen Paola met with his daughter Princess Delphine at the couple’s Belvédère residence. This is the first time that King Albert has seen his daughter in at least thirty years, and it is the first occasion when Queen Paola has ever met Princess Delphine….
Prince and Princess Romanovsky during their religious wedding. Photo (c) Petr Axenoff. Photo (c) Petr Axenoff. On Sunday, 12 September, at 3:00pm, Prince Rostislav Rostislavovich and Princess Fonteini Romanovsky celebrated their religious wedding at the Cathédrale Saint-Alexandre Nevsky on 12 rue Daru in Paris in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The church was established and…
Embed from Getty Images During a visit to the Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT), the Duke of Cambridge said that “I fully support whatever decision they make” if one of his three children realised that they were LGBT. Prince William went on to iterate that he would be worried about “pressures” that a royal child would…
Since 2019, there is a Frenchman named Jérôme Trimouille who now presents himself as the “Duc de Royan,” owing to his alleged (and not documented) descent from the noble La Trémoille family. As “Duc de Royan,” Jérôme Trimouille has created an official website (created in late 2020), a verified Facebook page (created in January 2020), a verified…
Obituary from Sud Ouest. Maurice Lannes, 7. duc de Montebello, died on 26 March 2022 at Mareuil, France. He was eighty-two years-old. Born on 2 July 1939 at Biarritz, Maurice Georges Antoine Marie Lannes, Marquis de Montebello ,was the son of Napoléon Lannes, 6. duc de Montebello (1903-1988), and his second wife Princess Diane de Broglie…
Nicoletta, Duchess di Serracapriola, 2014. On Friday, 21 May, Donna Nicoletta Maresca Baldasano Montanari Bianchini, Duchessa di Serracapriola, died at eighty-two years-old. Born at Bologna on 28 March 1939, Nicoletta was the daughter of Marchese Riccardo Baldasano Montanari Bianchini (b.1914) and Lydia Maccaferri (1915-1993), who married in 1938. Nicoletta and Antonino, Rome, 1989.Photograph (c) Marcellino Radogna….
Eurohistory weekend sales. As always Eurohistory would like to thank everyone for their support during this time. We understand that last year and 2021 continue to bring challenges to all of us. Please do your best to stay well and safe. We fervently hope that the rest of this year will bring us all better…