Princess Beatrice.Photograph (c) the Ducal House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Today, Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Meiningen celebrates her seventieth birthday. Prince Friedrich Josias and Princess Denys of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Born on 15 July 1951 at Bern, Princess Beatrice Charlotte of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the second child of Prince Friedrich Josias of Saxe-Coburg and…
Report from The Observer on 19 July 1942 Report from The Guardian on 5 August 1942 Report from The Guardian on 13 August 1942 Prince Michael George Charles Franklin of Kent was born during the Second World War on 4 July 1942, at Coppins, Buckinghamshire. Michael was the third child of Prince George, Duke of Kent, a son…
Yesterday, a portrait of Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, sold for for £1,200 at action house Sworders in Stansted Mountfitchet. The creator of this work was artist Richard Stone. The painter recalled that this portrait of Princess Alice, the longest lived of Queen Elizabeth II’s aunts, was the result of several sittings at Barnwell Manor, the…
This week, amidst some rather bleak news, there was an happy announcement from the Royal House of Hannover. Prince Christian and Princess Alessandra of Hannover are expecting twins in Summer 2020. The children will be the first offspring for the couple. Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’ozaOfFiyRNViWZmkrRiPMA’,sig:’VLfvDCLppck-qFPt6akUEHady2xRu8V8xAouvd-Iqq4=’,w:’594px’,h:’419px’,items:’932900338′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); On 24 November 2017, Prince…
A portrait of Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, only son of Grand Duke Kirill Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna, will be sold in London tomorrow by MacDougall’s Fine Art Auctions. Serge Ivanoff, the artist who created this depiction of Grand Duke Vladimir, Head of the Imperial House of Romanov from 1938-1992, completed the…
The Hereditary Prince and Princess of Leiningen on their wedding day. Photograph (c) Micky Goeler. As reported by Bunte, Hereditary Prince Ferdinand zu Leiningen and his wife Hereditary Princess Viktoria Luise (née Prinzessin von Preussen) are expecting their second child. The couple married in 2017. They are the parents of a daughter Princess Alexandra (b.2020).
Queen Isabel II and King Consort Francisco de Asís of Spain On 13 April 1902, His Majesty Francisco de Asís, King Consort of Spain, died at his residence, the château d’Épinay-sur-Seine in Paris. He was seventy-nine years-old. Francisco was the husband of the by-then-deposed Queen Isabel II of Spain (10 October 1830 – 9 April…
Edward and Katharine with their son George, July 1962. On 26 June 1962, George Philip Nicholas Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, was born at the family home of Coppins in Iver, Buckinghamshire. George was the first child of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, who had married in 1961. At the time of his birth, the…
The Fürst zu Ysenburg u.Büdingen, 1999.Photo (c) Seeger-Presse. Today Fürst Wolfgang-Ernst zu Ysenburg und Büdingen celebrates his eighty-fifth birthday! Fürst Otto-Friedrich zu Ysenburg und Büdingen and Princess Felizitas Reuß on their wedding day, 1935. Fürst Otto Friedrich zu Ysenburg und Büdingen with his wife Fürstin Felizitas, 1971. Photo (c) United Archives GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo….
Today Nicholas of Romania celebrates his thirty-fourth birthday! Embed from Getty Images Nicholas Michael de Roumanie Medforth-Mills was born on 1 April 1985 at Meyrin, Switzerland, as the eldest child and only son of Princess Helen of Romania (b.1950) and Dr Robin Medforth-Mills (1942-2002), who had married in 1983. Nicholas was baptised into the Romanian…