European Royal History

On 23 May 2010, Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna died at La Paz Hospital in Madrid. The grand duchess was ninety-five years-old. She was the last surviving member of the Imperial House of Romanov to have been born in the Russian Empire before its fall in 1917. Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’2nUPj-oFT1R987QNCQZDkQ’,sig:’FXRRQ86YigWv2K3S8yIkSyvkYW8zNERmtJ_qCzp0-dw=’,w:’594px’,h:’406px’,items:’101558333′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })});…

Princess Natalija of Serbia in front of the wedding dress of her ancestress, Queen Maria. Photo (c) Luka Sarac Photography for Hello Magazine Serbia. Prince Mihailo and Princess Ljubica of Serbia recently visited an exhibit displaying the wedding dress and attire of Mihailo’s grandmother, Queen Maria of Yugoslavia. Maria was the mother of Mihailo’s father…

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…

Yesterday the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg hosted their cousins the King and Queen of the Belgians for a gala dinner at the grand ducal palace in Luxembourg City. The dinner was also attended by the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg. All photographs are copyright of the Grand Ducal Court/Sophie Margue….

Prince Ernst August of Hannover Yesterday, there was quite a turbulent occurrence at the hunting lodge in Grünau im Almtal (Upper Austria) owned by Prince Ernst August of Hannover. According to the police record, Ernst August made an emergency call at around 1 a.m. on Wednesday night: he said that he was in the ditch…

Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia arrive at the wedding of Crown Prince Leka and Crown Princess Elia of Albania at the Royal Palace in Tirana on 8 October 2016.Photograph (c) Seth B. Leonard.   Earlier this month, HRH Crown Prince Alexander II of Serbia agreed to answer some questions for the…

Embed from Getty Images Aged seventy-two, Princess Christina of The Netherlands died on Friday, 16 August 2019, at Noordeinde Palace, Den Haag, The Netherlands. She had been suffering from bone cancer. In June 2018, it was announced that the princess had been diagnosed with the illness in November 2017.   Embed from Getty Images Embed…