Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Delphine Boël, and the Prince of Liege (later King Albert II of the Belgians) After years of legal battles on the matter, King Albert II of Belgium, who abdicated in 2013, has today acknowledged that he is the biological father of Delphine Boel. A communiqué from the king was issued via his attorney,…
Nicholas and Alina-Maria of Romania Attend A Noble Wedding At Schloß Hardenberg View this post on Instagram Wedding time! Casa de piatra @zernye & @paulinevonhardenberg @alinacernatescu A post shared by Alina Maria de Roumanie (@alinamariaderoumanie) on Jul 20, 2019 at 2:04pm PDT This past weekend, Nicholas and Alina-Maria of Romania were guests at…
Princess Victoria with her father Ambassador Bettarini. Photo (c) Getty Images / Peter Kovalev. A happy father and his beautiful daughter. Photo (c) Getty Images / Peter Kovalev. The happy groom, Grand Duke George, waves to those outside the Russian Museum of Ethnography. Photo (c) Peter Kovalev / TASS / Newscom. Yesterday evening, guests gathered at…
The Coat of Arms of the Comital House of Einsiedel. On 26 July 1922, Countess Elinka Karin Harriet von Einsiedel was born as the only child of Count Adolkar Haubold Siegfried von Einsiedel (1889-1963) and Margot Luigina Ilma von Gans (1889-1984/1986). Margot von Gans married Count Adolkar von Eisiedel on 1 October 1921. Margot and Adolkar divorced in…
Today, Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein and his twin sister Princess Diemut celebrate their 70th birthdays! The twins were born at Vienna on 1 April 1949 as the eldest children of Prince Hans-Moritz of Liechtenstein (1914-2004) and Princess Clotilde of Thurn and Taxis (1922-2009), who had married in 1944. The little princess was named Diemut Margarete Maria Benedicta Anna;…
Dear All, This year’s Royal Gatherings in London will take place on 18th & 19th April 2020. Please put the dates in your diary. As usual it will take place in the auction room of Spink at 67-69 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, London, WC1B 4ET. I have been busy putting together a list…
Christian and Karl attend the wedding of Fürst Alexander of Schaumburg-Lippe, 2021. In the spring of 2022 in Portugal, Archduke Karl of Austria, Head of the Imperial House of Habsburg, married Christian Nicolau de Almeida Reid, a woman of British and Portuguese descent. When he first publicly spoke of Christian three years ago, the archduke…
On 21 January 1952, Nicholas Romanovich Romanoff (1922-2014) married Countess Sveva della Gherardesca (b.1930) at the Russian Cathedral in Cannes. Nicholas was the eldest son of Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (1896-1978) and his wife Countess Prascovia Dmitrievna Cheremeteva (1901-1980), who wed in 1921. Sveva was the daughter of Count Walfredo della Gherardesca (1894-1953) and Countess Nicoletta…
The obituary of the princess. Princess Sixtina of Waldeck-Pyrmont died on 18 May 2022. She was eighty-eight years-old. Sixtina’s parents: Fürst Wolff-Heinrich and Fürstin Irma zu Stolberg. The commemorative coin celebrating the marriage of Fürst Wolff Heinrich and Fürstin Irma zu Stolberg. Princess Irma with her two eldest children: Princess Sixtina and Prince Johann….
Alice Javal Weiller. The birth record of Alice Anna Laval, 1869. NOTE: My sincere gratitude to my dear friend Jakob Regnér, who discovered much of the information about the life story and tragic fate of Alice Javal Weiller. On 10 October 1869 at Paris, Alice Anna Javal was born as the eldest child of Louis Émile Javal (1839-1907)…