According to reports in the Hungarian press, Archduke Georg of Austria (known in civil society as György Habsburg) will soon be Hungary’s next ambassador to Paris. Aged fifty-five, the archduke is a diplomat and journalist. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Hungarian Parliament will meet with the Georg on Monday, and it is almost certain that…
Dom Antônio and Dona Christine. Photograph (c) Prò Monarquia. Yesterday, September 26, Prince Dom Luiz of Orleans and Bragança, Head of the Imperial House of Brazil, granted the additional style of “Imperial Highness” to his brother, Prince Dom Antônio of Orleans and Braganza. Prince Dom Antônio will now be styled “His Imperial and Royal Highness,”…
Prince Alexis of Hesse with his dog Paul Photograph (c) Werra Rundschau At the link, feel free to view a delightful piece by DW News on Prince Alexis and Landgrave of Hesse (of the Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld line) and his family’s home of Schloss Augustenau. Prince Alexis, who studied art history, has managed Schloss Augustenau and its…
The Prince and Princess of Prussia, 2011. Photo (c) Getty Images / Andreas Rentz. Today, the Prince and Princess of Prussia celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary! One of the engagement pictures of Georg Friedrich and Sophie. The engagement of Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia and Princess Sophie of Isenburg was announced in January 2011. They…
The Duke of Bragança, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia, and Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of RussiaTsaritsyno Palace, 21 November 2019Photograph (c) Russian Imperial House This evening (21 Nov.) at Tsaritsyno Palace in Moscow, Grand Duchess Maria of Russia and Dom Duarte, Duke of Bragança, participated in an exchange of dynastic orders. Grand Duke George…
A Hohenzollern gathering at Burg Hohenzollern in 1961. Front row: Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Fürstin Margarete of Hohenzollern, Countess Augusta Victoria Douglas, and Princess Xenia of Prussia. On 29 August 1966, Countess Augusta Victoria Douglas (née Princess of Hohenzollern; former Queen of Portugal) died at Eigeltingen, Baden-Württemberg. She was seventy-six years-old. Princess Maria Teresa…
The remains of Queen Mother Helen of Romania (1896-1982; née Princess of Greece and Denmark) were repatriated from Switzerland to Romania on Friday, 18 October. After her death in 1982, Her Majesty was buried at the Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery in Lausanne. During his lifetime, her only child King Michael had expressed the wish that he and his…
This evening (July 16-17) we reach the fateful centennial of the martyrdom of the Russian Imperial Family. On the evening of July 16/17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, Grand Duchess Olga Nicholaevna, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nicholaevna, Grand Duchess Marie Nicholaevna, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna, and Tsesarevich Alexei Nicholaevich, accompanied by four loyal servants,…
On 10 July 1952 at Beloeil, Archduchess Alexandra Maria Anna Philippa Othonia of Austria was born as the second child and first daughter of Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918-2007) and Archduchess Yolande (b.1923; née Princess de Ligne), who wed in 1950. Archduchess Alexandra had an older brother and two younger siblings: Archduke Rudolph (b.1950;…