European Royal History

Embed from Getty Images Aged seventy-two, Princess Christina of The Netherlands died on Friday, 16 August 2019, at Noordeinde Palace, Den Haag, The Netherlands. She had been suffering from bone cancer. In June 2018, it was announced that the princess had been diagnosed with the illness in November 2017.   Embed from Getty Images Embed…

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Princess Leopoldine von Lobkowicz, Countess Jan Dobrzensky von Dobrzenicz. Photograph courtesy her family via Community Funeral Homes. Aged ninety-four, Princess Leopoldina “Leo” von Lobkowicz, Countess Jan Dobrzensky von Dobrzenicz, passed away on 18 March 2021 at Haliburton Hospital, Ontario, Canada. Prince Leopold von Lobkowicz and his wife Princess Franziska von Montenuovo. Born on 14 November 1926…

Princess Jeanne Chantal Alice Clothilde Marie d’Orléans was born at Pamplona, Spain, on 9 January 1946. Chantal was the tenth child and sixth daughter of Prince Henri d’Orléans (1909-1999), Count of Paris, and his wife Princess Isabelle (1911-2003; née Orléans-Bragança). Chantal was baptized on 21 January 1946 at Saint Nicholas Church in Pamplona, Spain. Five…

The Duke of Bragança, Prince Imperial Bertrand of Brazil, Count Alberto Farini, Prince Luiz Philippe of Orléans and Bragança, and Prince Casimir of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.Photograph (c) Pró Monarquia. On 11 March 2020, before the world was completely changed by the coronavirus pandemic, Prince Casimir of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and his wife Princess Maria Cristina organised a…

Prince Mirko of Montenegro (1879-1918) The second son and ninth child of Prince (eventual King) Nikola I and Princess (eventual Queen) Milena of Montenegro was born at St Petersburg on 17 April 1879. The Montenegrin prince was given the Mirko. Mirko had an older and younger brother: Crown Prince Danilo (1872-1939) and Prince Peter (1889-1932)….

Fürst Johannes von Khevenhüller-Metsch Death notice.   HSH Fürst Johannes “Hans” von Khevenhüller-Metsch died in Rome on 26 November 2020. Johannes was sixty-four years-old. The prince had suffered from the effects of COVID-19 for some time. Fürst Max von Khevenhüller-Metsch Count Maria Johannes Franz Xaver Lazarus Maximilian Felix Hubertus von Khevenhüller-Metsch was born on 20 November 1956 as the…

Prince Dushan of Yugoslavia, only son of the late Prince Alexander and of his wife Barbara (née Liechtenstein) married civilly Ms. Valerie Demuzio. She works in marketing and advertising in NY. Although currently residing in New York, Prince Dushan’s career obligations bring him to Europe frequently. His mother, a longtime resident of Paris, relocated to…