Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Archduke Ferdinand of Austria (b.1997; normally known as Ferdinand Habsburg) is set to join the Austrian military in December 2019. The motor racing driver is the only son of Archduke Karl of Austria (b.1961), Head of the Imperial House of Habsburg, and Archduchess Francesca (b.1958; née Thyssen-Bornemisza…
Queen Mother Helen of Romania will be reburied in Romania next month. It has been announced by the Romanian Royal Family that Queen Helen, the mother of King Michael, will leave her current resting place at the Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery in Lausanne. A national funeral is planned for the Queen Mother’s reburial on 19 October 2019 at the…
Princess Henriette of Auersperg was born on 2 September 1933 at Sankt Johann im Pongau, Salzburg, as the eldest child of Prince Alois of Auersperg (1897-1984) and Countess Henriette Larisch von Moennich (1903-1994). Known as “Hetty,” the little girl was followed by two brothers: Prince Alfred (1936-1992) and Prince Luitpold (1937-1985). The future was to…
Since her reign began in 1952, HM The Queen has seen fourteen Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom come and go. However distantly, a number of this politicians are somehow or another related to the queen. Below we will see the familial connections between Queen Elizabeth II and a number of these leaders in British…
The newly engaged couple.Photograph (c) Grand Ducal Court. On Tuesday, 6 April 2021, the Grand Ducal Court announced the engagement of Prince Louis of Luxembourg and Mademoiselle Scarlett-Lauren Sirgue. The couple have been in a relationship for some time. Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa issued the following statement: “We are very happy to…
Screenshot from MUGSHOTS.COM / Photos shown are (c) MUGSHOTS.COM On 12 January 2009, HRH Princess Marie of Romania was booked in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, on the charge of “failure to appear.” In the typical terse terms of a police report, it was noted that Marie was 5’8″ and 162 lbs with blonde hair…
Thanks to the research of royal genealogist (and our dear friend) Hein Bruins, it has become known that Don Rodrigo Moreno y Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Doña Casilda Ghisla Guerrero-Burgos y Fernández de Córdoba, XXI Duquesa de Cardona, were married in 2020. Infanta Alicia of Spain, Dowager Duchess of Calabria, and her grandson Don Rodrigo Moreno y…
Nicholas Phillips.Photograph by Lord Litchfield. A little over thirty years ago, the last guardian of Luton Hoo passed away. Nicholas Phillips was found dead in his car in the garage of Luton Hoo on 1 March 1991. Mr Phillips was only forty-three years old. The wedding of Harold Phillips and Georgina Wernher. Born on 23…
King Simeon, Queen Margarita, Alexandra Chrobok, Jorge de Magalhães, and their children.Photograph (c) HM King Simeon II of the Bulgarians Members of the Bulgarian royal family recently gathered in Assisi, Italy, to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the death of Queen Giovanna of Bulgaria. Queen Giovanna of Bulgaria in 1937 Born a Princess of Savoy, Giovanna…