Princess Barbara at the grave of Prince Alexander.Photo (c) Princess Barbara of Yugoslavia.This photo cannot be reproduced without the written consent of the Princess. Princess Barbara at the grave of Prince Alexander.Photo (c) Princess Barbara of Yugoslavia.This photo cannot be reproduced without the written consent of the Princess. Last month, Princess Barbara of Yugoslavia…
La Duquesa de Plasencia. Don Carlo Ruspoli, Duca di Morignano, and Doña María da Gracia de Solís-Beaumount y Téllez-Girón, Duquesa de Plasencia. On 20 February 2021, Doña María de Gracia, Duchess de Plasencia died at Madrid. She was sixty-three years-old. The duchess had been a nurse with the Spanish Red Cross and was a Dame of…
Ernst-Leopold and Sabine. On 27 June 1996, Ernst-Leopold Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha and his wife Sabine died by suicide at Bad Wiessee, a resort town in Bavaria. Ernst-Leopold was sixty-one; Sabine was fifty-five, having celebrated her birthday only two days before her untimely death. The bodies of the couple were discovered by a…
Principe Carlo Alessandro della Torre e Tasso. Today, Prince Carlo Alessandro della Torre e Tasso, Duke of Castel Duino, celebrates his seventieth birthday! Carlo Alessandro’s father Raimundo in the late 1930s. Princess Eugenie of Greece and Denmark with her husband Prince Raimundo della Torre e Tasso, 1953.Photo (c) Getty Images. Born on 10 February 1952 at…
On Sunday, members of the Orthodox Christian royal families of Europe celebrated Pascha. Crown Princess Elia of Albania with her father and brother. King Simeon II of Bulgaria. Prince Philip and Princess Danica with their son Prince Stefan. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia. Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of…
Prince Bertil of Sweden and Lilian Davies Craig after the announcement of their engagement, Oct. 1976. Photo (c) Getty Images / Keystone. In December 1985, Prince Bertil and Princess Lilian of Sweden, Duke and Duchess of Halland, paid a visit to the United States. During that time, the royal couple were guests of the Swedish-American…
Dr. Thomas Greinwald and Duke Franz of Bavaria with their dachshund.Photo credit: Erwin Olaf. We are happy to share two pictures of Duke Franz of Bavaria, Head of the Royal House. In the first photograph, Duke Franz is shown with his longtime partner Dr. Thomas Greinwald and their daschund. In the second photograph, we see…
Princess Birgitta in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 1999.Photo (c) Getty Images / Gianni Ferrari. Today, Princess Birgitta of Sweden celebrates her eighty-fifth birthday. Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden on their wedding day at Coburg, 1932. Princess Birgitta at a little over one month old. Prince Gustaf Adolf and…
Archduchess Adélaïde of Austria has shared a picture of herself with her young son Archduke Josef. Archduke Christoph and Archduchess Adélaïde of Austria on their wedding day. Adélaïde Drapé-Frisch married Archduke Christoph of Austria in December 2012. The couple have three children: Archduchess Katarina (b.2014), Archduchess Sophie (b.2017), and Archduke Josef (b.2020).
Princess Valerie Marie of Arenberg, Duchess of Arenberg (née Schleswig-Holstein) in 1945 On 3 April 1900, Valerie Marie zu Schleswig-Holstein was born at Liptovský Mikuláš, Hungary, Austria-Hungary. She was the only child of Duke Albert of Schleswig-Holstein (1869-1931), and the only grandchild of Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846-1923), the third daughter and fifth child…