European History

Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’8-DAMPpxSv97_sIxteL9ng’,sig:’AtqRrB-FDN8GZcuAabrxVDPCo3WLDKiQJE4_Ltb95CM=’,w:’420px’,h:’594px’,items:’56240052′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); Clotilde Marie Pascale Courau yesterday celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of her birth. Clotilde was born on 3 April 1969 as the daughter of Jean-Claude Courau (b.1942) and Catherine du Pontavice des Renardières (b.1948), daughter of Count Pierre Francoise Marie Antoine du Pontavice des Renardières (b.1926) and Marie Lélia…

  6300 Kensington Avenue East Richmond Heights, CA 94805 USA Email: [email protected] or [email protected] Phone: 510.236.1730   This afternoon, as is customary for him, our longtime subscriber Phil Perry took BART from San Francisco and visited Eurohistory, where he collected his copies of Issues CXVII & CXVIII. Besides having a good chat abut the latest royal…

Princess Eudoxia (sometimes called Eudoxie) Augusta Philippine Clementine Maria of Bulgaria was born on 17 January 1898 at Sofia, the capital of her father’s realm. Eudoxia’s parents were Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria (1861-1948; né Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) and his wife Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma (1870-1899): Ferdinand and Marie Louise were married at the Villa Pianore, a property…

Amalia, Princess of Orange, future Queen of the NetherlandsPhotograph (c) RVD – Z.M. de Koning Today, 7 December, the Princess of Orange celebrates her sixteenth birthday. A new photograph of the princess was released by the Dutch Royal House. The image of Princess Amalia was taken by her father, King Willem-Alexander, at Den Haag (The…

As is tradition, many European monarchs have given Christmas messages this year. In this post, you may watch the messages from the Belgian, Luxembourgish, Dutch, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, and British kings, queens, and grand duke – you can also read English-language commentary on their messages. Queen Margrethe of Denmark, Prince Albert of Monaco, King Harald…

On Friday, 26 March, (Today!) Archduke Eduard of Austria (aka Eduard Habsburg), the Hungarian Ambassador to the Vatican, will be giving a talk via YouTube on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the return of the Blessed Karl, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, to the Kingdom of Hungary. On his Twitter, Archduke Eduard posted this message:…

Crown Princess Juliana with her daughter Princess Irene   Embed from Getty Images On 5 August 1939, Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands gave birth to her second daughter at Soestdijk Palace. Crown Princess Juliana had married Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld in 1937. The little princess was named Irene Emma Elisabeth, and at her birth she was…