During the evening of 26 September/27 September, Prince Ferfried of Hohenzollern died at Großhadern Clinic in Munich. He was seventy-nine years-old. The late prince was an uncle of Fürst Karl Friedrich of Hohenzollern. Prince Ferfried with his parents.Photo (c) Seeger-Presse. Born on 14 April 1943 at Schloß Umkirch, Prince Ferfried Maximilian Pius Meinrad Maria…
Around thirty aristocrats will have their titles abolished by the Spanish Cortes if and when it adopts the Democratic Memory Law (Ley de Memoria Democrática). The text of the law was published in September 2020. At the time, Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo noted that the bill’s sixty-six articles would honour the victims of…
The Immortal Helen Lewis: The American Beauty Who Became The Duchess of Croÿ And Then The Daugher-In-Law of Admiral Miklós Horthy Helen, Duchess of Croÿ (née Lewis) Helen’s mother Jane “Jennie” Bromley Lindsay Lewis in 1941. On 22 October 1924, Helen Lindsay Lewis (b.Albany, New York 14 February 1898) became the second wife of Duke…
Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta and Maria Isabella of Savoy-Genoa, 1955. On the occasion of Christmas and the New Year, both Duke Amedeo of Savoy, Head of the Royal House, and his cousin Princess Maria Isabella of Savoy-Genoa have issued messages to Italians in Italy and abroad. Amedeo and Maria Isabella are close friends as…
The newlyweds depart Saint Isaac’s. Photo (c) Getty Images / Alexander Demianchuk. Photo (c) Getty Images / Alexander Demianchuk. Kiss amidst wedded bliss! Photo (c) Getty Images / Alexander Demianchuk. Today at 12:00pm, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and Princess Victoria Romanovna Romanoff were joined in Holy Matrimony during their Russian Orthodox religious marriage…
Queen Marie-José of Italy. A study of the May Queen by Theodore Strawinsky. On 27 January 2001, Queen Marie-José of Italy passed away in Geneva. She was ninety-four years-old. Left to right: Prince Léopold, Princess Marie-José, and Prince Charles. Photograph (c) Getty Images/Hutton Archive. King Albert I and Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians with their daughter…
Prince Carl Alexander of Hohenzollern Carl Alexander at his childhood homePhotograph (c) Presse-Foto-Seeger Forty-eight year-old Carl Alexander has recently stated that he is on the lookout for a fourth wife. In 1991, the prince married Angela Stölzle (b.1942; who at one time was his father’s mistress); the couple were divorced in 1997. In 2002, Carl…
A Right Royal Conundrum. Photograph (c) Marko Todorović, Tanjug/Tanja Valič, Wikipedia/White House Press Office Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’fB8-spXzSN143p6OP3M97g’,sig:’bpSDNjMnHghlVg7XnHjN2bDpQpRiXSRlB00j4ljDOGQ=’,w:’396px’,h:’594px’,items:’817647106′,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:’5uJx2-z0ROxlTWpATJsgnw’,sig:’NEfJjKmAvEbLMd-Cv-E8S92j9be2C6caX9eOHLgcRfU=’,w:’397px’,h:’594px’,items:’71964359′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); Over the past week, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia (b.1936) and her youngest daughter Christina Oxenberg have been going back and forth through Balkan…
In delightful news from the Greek royal family, many reports indicate that Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark and his wife Princess Nina (née Flohr) will celebrate their religious wedding in October 2021. The couple were civilly married at St Moritz, Switzerland, on 12 December 2020. It is believed that the prince and princess…
The Duke and Duchess of Calabria at the Royal Palace in Madrid, 2019.Photograph (c) Bekia. Today, Prince Pedro and Princess Sofía of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke and Duchess of Calabria, celebrate their twentieth anniversary! Doña Sofía arrives at the wedding with her father Don José Manuel Landaluce. The Duke of Noto arrives at the wedding. On…