European Royal History

Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg Today, Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg, Countess of Holstein-Ledreborg, celebrates her ninety-fifth birthday! She is the sister of the late Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg and the aunt of Grand Duke Henri. Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’07C_LAxNTMREvnjL80o9rg’,sig:’i4Y2LsVG51HzJEODwFxCwskiAe4RmEwjWnXPHvWxnM0=’,w:’594px’,h:’459px’,items:’558648279′,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:’MJRxtibATnFcbBjVyCneBA’,sig:’7bamV_Gay_DDUrMfZJlv8Nb86r0MiZq78ZB9nWh_xz0=’,w:’390px’,h:’594px’,items:’537571145′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); Embed…

Prince Sergei Mikhailovich Poutiatine was born in the Russian Empire on 7 December 1893 at St Petersburg. He was the eldest son of Prince Michael Mikhailovich Poutiatine (1861-1938) and his wife Princess Sofia Sergeevna (1866-1940; née Paltova). Sergei had one younger brother, Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Poutiatine (1897-1953). The Putyatins (Poutiatines) were a Rurikid family with princely and…

  On 8 April 1931 at Palermo, Prince Henri d’Orléans married Princess Isabel de Orléans e Bragança. On the ninetieth anniversary of the wedding of the Count and Countess of Paris, I hope that you will enjoy these images from an album that I purchased some years ago from the estate of a French royalist who…

Prince Joachim of Prussia On the evening of Saturday, 17 July 1920, Prince Joachim of Prussia shot himself in the left breast while in his room at the Villa Liegnitz in Potsdam. The prince was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on Sunday, 18 July, at 1:00am as a result of…

  Hereditary Prince Ferdinand and Hereditary Princess Viktoria Luise zu Leiningen welcomed their first child, a daughter, on 28 February. The newborn Princess is named Alexandra Viktoria Luise Ehrengard, after her mother and her paternal and maternal grandmothers. Ferdinand zu Leiningen and Viktoria Luise von Preußen married in 2017.   Princess Alexandra zu Leiningen is…

The Shadow of Delphine. This afternoon, 10 September, the last hearing took place in the paternity case between HM King Albert II of the Belgians and his daughter Delphine Boël. The Brussels Court of Appeals will deliver its decision by the end of October. After the hearing, Delphine Boël’s lawyer Marc Uyttendaele stated: “She wants…

Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah! Our printer has reopened for business and they are currently getting ready Issues CXXXI, CXXII, CXXIII, CXXIV (Volumes 22.1 – 22.4) of EUROHISTORY. We should be ready to resume shipping the EUROHISTORY to subscribers and selling points next week. Today, we received advance review copies from the printer and we have given…