A decade ago, on 13 May 2011, Princess Maria of Bavaria, Princess Mother of Brazil, died at her home in Rio de Janeiro. She was ninety-six years-old. The princess passed away on the 123rd anniversary of the 1888 signing of the Lei Áurea (Golden Law) by Princess Imperial Isabel of Brazil, the grandmother of Princess…
☨ Countess Beatrice von Hardenberg (1947 – 2020) Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’_64cDEl8SoRbKS4CGe0hag’,sig:’meo0tsdLhAPhJ9ppOlp47URmbmp9DI3Pw7TmfwdBUTg=’,w:’426px’,h:’594px’,items:’505080650′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); On the morning of Friday, 13 March, Countess Beatrice von Hardenberg passed away in Marbella, Spain. She was seventy-two years-old. Beatrice’s death was announced by her daughter, Olivia, in the following message: With great sorrow, I inform you…
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…
King Simeon, Queen Margarita, Alexandra Chrobok, Jorge de Magalhães, and their children.Photograph (c) HM King Simeon II of the Bulgarians Members of the Bulgarian royal family recently gathered in Assisi, Italy, to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the death of Queen Giovanna of Bulgaria. Queen Giovanna of Bulgaria in 1937 Born a Princess of Savoy, Giovanna…
Embed from Getty Images Today, Prince Hans Adam II and Princess Marie Agläe of Liechtenstein celebrate fifty-two years of marriage. Embed from Getty Images The then Hereditary Prince Hans Adam of Liechtenstein (b.1945) and Countess Marie Agläe Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (b.1940) were wed at St Florin’s in Vaduz on 30 July 1967. Hans…
Queen Margarita and King Simeon II on their religious wedding day. Today, Their Majesties King Simeon II and Queen Margarita of Bulgaria celebrate sixty years of marriage! Simeon and Margarita discuss their engagement, 1961. The engagement ring. The engagement of the couple was announced on 10 August 1961 by the Simeon’s mother Giovanna: “Her Majesty…
Alick Dru and Lady Tatiana Mountbatten at Royal Ascot, June 2021.Photo (c) Getty Images / Kirsten Sinclair. Through her social media, Lady Tatiana Mountbatten recently announced her engagement to Alexander Dru. The engagement announcement in The Telegraph, 8 January. The official announcement of the engagement was placed in The Telegraph by Tatiana’s mother, Lady Spencer of…
Michel of Bourbon-Parma: Last of the Royal Swashbucklers By Charles Stewart 8 July 2018 The death of Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma (1926-2018) on 7 July severs the last link binding several of Europe’s royal families in history and kinship. The late Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma. ©Eurohistory He led a fascinating life,…
The birth registration of Maria Teresa Afif, 1920. According to Le Figaro, Madame Marie-Thérèse de Damas died in France on 13 December 2021; she was 101 years-old. Marie-Thérèse was the widow of René de Damas, who she married in 1948. The couple had five children: Carmen, Etienne, Chantal, Anne, and Elisabeth. Marie-Thérèse was born Maria Teresa…
Hello Dear Subscribers and Readers, As renewals have started arriving in our mailbox, we are sending the latest issue of EUROHISTORY to subscribers who renew for 202o, as well as to NEW subscribers, of which there are quite a few! Thanks for your support! Inside Issue CXXV – Spring 2020 you will find the following articles:…