HRH Princess Delphine of Belgium The Brussels Court of Appeals has handed down its verdict in the case of Delphine (formerly Boël) and her father King Albert II. As of today, Delphine’s surname is “van Saksen-Coburg/de Saxe-Cobourg” (of Saxe-Coburg). Furthermore, the court has found that she is entitled to the Belgian royal title and…
Camilla. On 29 December 1956, Countess Camilla von Schönborn-Buchheim fell victim to the current of the sea and drowned at Strawberry Beach near Half Moon Bay (San Mateo), California. She was only seventeen years-old. Residents of the locale went on the record to state that many visitors to this beach had suffered the same fate….
Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images In April 2008, during a segment of the VTM programme Het Nieuws, Queen Fabiola of Belgium was recorded speaking for the first time about the five miscarriages that she experienced. From 1960 until his death in 1993, Fabiola was the wife and…
Christian and Karl attend the wedding of Fürst Alexander of Schaumburg-Lippe, 2021. In the spring of 2022 in Portugal, Archduke Karl of Austria, Head of the Imperial House of Habsburg, married Christian Nicolau de Almeida Reid, a woman of British and Portuguese descent. When he first publicly spoke of Christian three years ago, the archduke…
“COMING!!!”Poster from the anti-monarchy campaign in the 1974 Greek referendum. In the chapter on King Constantine II of Greece in Royalty in Exile by Charles Fenyvesi, the author notes on page 181 that “the most effective weapon in the antimonarchist campaign was a poster with Frederika’s picture captioned, ‘I am coming!’“ For almost a decade, I was…
Duchess Edwina of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Today, Her Highness Duchess Edwina of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Princess of the Wends, Schwerin and Ratzeburg, Countess of Schwerin, Lady of the lands Rostock and Stargard, etc. celebrates her sixtieth birthday. Embed from Getty Images The engagement of Edwina’s parents Duke Christian Ludwig of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Princess Barbara of Prussia…
At the end of January 1905, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia granted a rare interview to a foreign reporter about the situation in Russia. The uncle of Tsar Nicholas II, fifty-seven year-old Grand Duke Vladimir, the Military Governor of Saint Petersburg, spoke candidly about the events of 22 January 1905 (O.S. 9 January), which…
HH Prince Georg-Constantin of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1977-2018) The email was ominous…“Dear Arturo, I have just received a telephone call from Germany asking me something concerning an accident a prince had in London. Do you know anything about this?” The writer of this note was none other than HRH The Margrave of Meißen, Head of the Royal…
One hundred years ago today, on 9 June 1921, Princess Margrethe of Denmark married Prince René of Bourbon-Parma (1894-1962), one of the sons of Duke Roberto of Parma and Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal. Princess Margrethe of Denmark (1895-1992) was the only daughter of Prince Valdemar of Denmark (1858-1939) and his wife Princess Marie (1865-1909; née…
Family and friends of the late Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma gathered at the Hotel des Invalides (Paris) this morning to bid farewell to his earthly remains. Besides his close family, other royals in attendance included: Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg and his brother Prince Jean, the Prince and Princess of Venice, as well as Prince…