HIH Prince Jean-Christophe Napoléon, HRH The Count of Paris, and don Luis Alfonso de Borbón y Martínez-Bordiú attended the funeral of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg yesterday at Notre-Dame in Luxembourg City. The Prince Napoléon and his fiancée Countess Olympia Arco The Prince Napoléon was accompanied by his fiancée Countess Olympia of Arco-Zinneberg. Prince Jean-Christophe…
The duke and duchess de Sabran.Photo (c) Getty Images / Bertrand Rindoff Petroff. Today, the 8th Duc de Sabran celebrates his eighty-fifth birthday! Born on 30 April 1937 at Villecresnes, Charles Élzéar Marie Joseph Adrien de Sabran-Pontevès was the first child of Foulques, 7th Duc de Sabran (1908-1973) and Roselyne Manca-Amat de Vallambrosa (1910-1988). Roselyne, duchesse de Sabran,…
Prince Louis and Princess Alix Napoléon with the twins. On 19 October 1950, Prince Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Napoléon and Princess Catherine Elisabeth Albérique Marie Napoléon were born at Boulogne-sur-Seine. The first twins in the Bonaparte dynasty. The twins were the children of Prince Louis Napoléon (1914-1997), son of Prince Victor Napoléon…
The Duke and Duchess de Noailles, 2019.Photo (c) Friends of the Domaine de Chantilly. On 21 October 2022 at Paris, Hélie de Noailles, Duc de Noailles, married Madame Joëlle Chapelon.Born on 16 July 1943 at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hélie Marie Auguste Jacques Bertrand Philippe de Noailles was the only child of François de Noailles, Duc de Noailles,…
Hereditary Prince Philip and his older brother Prince Peter during the renunciation. On 27 April at Casa Pilatos in Seville, Prince Peter of Serbia renounced his right of succession to the Headship of the Royal House. Among others, Peter’s act of renunciation was witnessed by his mother the Duchess of Segorbe, his stepfather the…
On 28 April 2020, Mafalda Luise Prinzessin von Preußen was born as the first child of Alexander Prinz von Preußen and his wife Jenny Prinzessin von Preußen (née von Ruhmor). Alexander Prinz von Preußen, eldest son of Prince Adalbert of Prussia and Eva Maria Kudicke, was civilly married at Munich on Valentine’s Day,…
King Michael. In the Museo Pietro Canonica at the Villa Borghese in Rome, there are two sculptures of a mother and a son, a queen mother and a king. Both likenesses were created in marble by Italian artist Pietro Canonica (1869-1959). The sculptures depict King Michael I of Romania and his beloved mother Queen Helen of…
Princess Ljubica and Prince Mihailo of Serbia with their daughter Princess Natalija. Princess Ljubica of Serbia shared last week that she and her husband, Prince Mihailo, are expecting their second child. The couple, who married five years ago in October 2016, have one daughter, Princess Natalija, born in 2018. The newest Karađorđević will be a great-grandchild of…
On Saturday, 19 March, Countess Margherita of Arco-Zinneberg married Charles Green in Bavaria. Countess Margherita Ginevra Maria of Arco-Zinneberg (b.1983) is the third daughter of Count Riprand of Arco-Zinneberg (1955-2021) and Archduchess Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este (b.1954). Margherita has five sisters: Countess Anna Theresa (b.1981; married Colin McKenzie), Countess Olympia (b.1988; married Prince Jean-Christophe Napoléon), Countess Maximiliana (b.1990),…