Emmanuel and Letizia in 2019.Photograph (c) Getty Images/Henri Tullio. Emmanuel de Noailles, Duc d’Ayen, and Letizia Bemberg recently married in France. The couple have two sons, Raphaël and Felix. Emmanuel de Noailles. Born in Washington, DC, on 14 February 1983, Emmanuel Paul Louis Marie de Noailles, Duc d’Ayen, is the only son of Hélie de…
Today Nicholas of Romania celebrates his thirty-fourth birthday! Embed from Getty Images Nicholas Michael de Roumanie Medforth-Mills was born on 1 April 1985 at Meyrin, Switzerland, as the eldest child and only son of Princess Helen of Romania (b.1950) and Dr Robin Medforth-Mills (1942-2002), who had married in 1983. Nicholas was baptised into the Romanian…
Two days after Prince Peter of Serbia’s renunciation of his rights of succession to the Royal House, which took place on 27 April, were publicly announced on 28 April, the Serbian tabloid Kurir ran a story on 29 April that alleged the prince has an out-of-wedlock daughter. The tabloid paper wrote: Officially, Petar is not married…
These are exciting times here at Eurohistory! As we release this news, we are looking forward to our newest book, The Grand Ducal House of Hesse, which is printing this week. We expect that The Grand Ducal House of Hesse, our 32nd book, will be available to ship to preorders in mid-August, if not a little earlier! Now…
The Royal Family of France. Photograph (c) ddp/abaca press. On 8 December, the Count and Countess of Paris and their five children posed for a lovely Christmas photo-session at Montreal de l’Aude, near Carcassonne, France. The family will be celebrating their first Christmas at this new home. The Count and Countess of Paris departed Dreux…
The full film of the funeral of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg may be viewed at the link below. Aged ninety-eight, the grand duke died on 23 April surrounded by his family. The celebration of his live was in the same vein: the children, grandchildren, and at least one great-grandchild of Grand Duke Jean…
Schneider-Press/Frank Rol/SIPA/Newscom. The youngest guest at the weekend religious nuptials of Emanuele Musini and Princess Maria Anunciata of Liechtenstein was likely the bride’s first cousin once removed: Princess Anastasia of Bourbon-Parma. Prince Henri of Bourbon-Parma and his wife Archduchess Gabriella of Austria attended the wedding on Saturday, 4 September, in Vienna along with their infant daughter,…
Tatiana. On 22 October 2022 at Moscow, Tatiana Constantinovna Pavlova died at the age of eighty-nine. By virtue of her descent from Grand Duke Constantine Nichaelovich of Russia, Tatiana was a second cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021; né Prince of Greece and Denmark). Born on 29 January 1933 at Moscow, Tatiana Constantinovna Erchova was the…
Fürstin Margarete with her dogs, ~1955. Sixty years ago, on 16 October 1962, Fürstin Margarete of Hohenzollern died at Freiburg im Breisgau. She was sixty-two years-old. Margarete of Saxony. Born on 24 January 1900 at Dresden, Princess Margarete Karola Wilhelmine Viktoria Adelheid Albertine Petrusa Bertram Paula of Saxony was the fifth child and second surviving daughter…
On 30 March, the auction house Neumeister will be hosting a magnificent sale: Hidden Treasures – Treasures from the House of Württemberg. The historically significant items contained in the auction come from the estate of Duke Ferdinand Eugen of Württemberg (1925-2020). Neumeister received sixty wooden boxes in 2021; these boxes and the treasures therein were from the…