Last week, several members of different branches of the Georgian royal family issued a letter of protest against their cousin Prince David Bagration-Mukhransky. The letter reads as follows: An Official Letter of Protest The Bagrationi Family Association is an international organisation uniting the majority of Bagrationi descendants. In 2006, a Memorandum was officially…
A portrait of Archduke Leopold Franz. According to his son Archduke Sigismund, Archduke Leopold Franz of Austria, former titular Grand Duke of Tuscany, died in June 2021. Leopold Franz was seventy-eight years-old. He is survived by his two sons, Sigismund and Guntram, as well as by five grandchildren. Archduchess Dorothea and Archduke Gottfried of Austria,…
A young Prince Antonio of Orléans and BragançaPhotograph (c) Casa Imperial do Brasil Today, Prince Antônio of Orléans and Bragança celebrates his seventieth birthday! Earlier this year, the prince was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, from which he has thankfully recovered. Surely, after all that, this birthday will be especially celebrated (both near and far)…
Andrea Torlonia and his wife Sania Imperiali in Rome, 1992.Photograph (c) Marcellino Radogna. Aged just fifty-nine, Don Andrea Torlonia dei duchi di Poli e Guadagnolo died in June 2021. He is survived by his mother Donna Ines, his brother Don Guido, his wife of over thirty years, Donna Sania Imperiali dei Principi di Francavilla, and their…
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…
Photo (c) Sabine Brauer of Brauer Photos. Yesterday, 6 October, Countess Beatrix of Schönburg-Glauchau was buried at the Nordfriedhof in Munich, Bavaria. Aged, ninety-one, Beatrix died at hospital in Regensburg on 30 September. Countess Irina, Count Alexander, Princess Gloria, and Count Carl-Alban at the funeral of their mother. Photo (c) Sabine Brauer of Brauer Photos. The funeral of…
Ari Mikael Behn, the former husband of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway, has passed away today, 25 December 2019, at Lommedalen. The cause of death was suicide. An artist and author, Mr Behn was forty-seven years-old. Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’N-yn10k5Sy16qhixn4b9aw’,sig:’Ji3Q2xr_5NX1pYK_pseiyk3x66tkvkqtHUaX01IhjyU=’,w:’326px’,h:’594px’,items:’157131099′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’zQx6VI41R8JQNZckKV7idw’,sig:’AZ6ell7sdgkpwpOi4_a4xKAg6z3kWzd6MA-EU4BpcvI=’,w:’397px’,h:’594px’,items:’115132066′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); Ari was…
The Duke and Duchess of Parma with their three children. Photo (c) PPE / Jeroen van der Meyde. On Sunday, 29 May, Princess Luisa and Princess Cecilia of Bourbon-Parma received their first Holy Communion at the Holy Jacobus de Meerdere Church in The Hague. Their proud parents, Prince Carlos and Princess Annemarie, were present as…
The Duke and Duchess. Today, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry celebrate their fortieth wedding anniversary. Richard and Elizabeth with their three eldest children, 1993.Photo (c) Alamy. On 31 October 1981, Richard Montagu-Douglas-Scott, then Earl of Dalkeith, married Lady Elizabeth Kerr. The groom was the eldest child and son of the Duke and Duchess…
Princess Diana of Bourbon-Parma and Prince Franz Joseph of Hohenzollern Note: Thank you to Alexander Oehmichen, the elder son of the princess, for contacting us to correct the date and place of his mother’s passing, as well as to correct the misinformation that was contained at the linked article concerning her cause of death, which…