Habsburg Descendant Engaged to Great-Nephew of Dowager Countess of Paris

Sebastián Prieto and Constanza Riesle, 2019.Photo (c) El Mercurio. On 4 July, the engagement of Sebastián Prieto Donoso and Constanza Riesle de Habsbourg-Lorraine was announced.  Sebastián Prieto Donoso. Sebastián Prieto Donoso is the son of Daniel Prieto Cornejo (b.1961) and Antonia Donoso Cousiño (b.1963). Sebastián’s paternal grandparents are Cristián Prieto Díaz (b.1933) and Dora Cornejo Juárez (b.1936). Sebastián’s maternal…

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Princess Gloria of Thurn and Taxis: The “Princess TNT” Years

Countess Mariae Gloria Ferdinanda Joachima Josephine Wilhelmine Huberta of Schönburg-Glauchau was born at Stuttgart-Degerloch on 23 February 1960. She was the second child and second daughter of Count Joachim of Schönburg-Glauchau (1929-1998) and his first wife Countess Beatrix (b.1930; née Széchényi de Sárvár et Felsövidék). Gloria joined an elder sister, Maya (1958-2019), and was followed…

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All The Queen’s Women: The Death of Lady Moyra Campbell, Maid of Honour at Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation

Lady Moyra Hamilton in 1953. Photograph (c) National Portrait Gallery.  Lady Moyra Kathleen Hamilton was born at London on 22 July 1930 as the first child and only daughter of James, Marquess of Hamilton (1904-1979; later 4th Duke of Abercorn), and his wife Lady Mary Crichton (1905-1990), who married in 1928. Moyra’s paternal grandparents were…

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The Demonisation of Queen Mother Frederica of Greece During the 1974 Greek Referendum

“COMING!!!”Poster from the anti-monarchy campaign in the 1974 Greek referendum. In the chapter on King Constantine II of Greece in Royalty in Exile by Charles Fenyvesi, the author notes on page 181 that “the most effective weapon in the antimonarchist campaign was a poster with Frederika’s picture captioned, ‘I am coming!’“ For almost a decade, I was…

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