A Right Royal Quiz: Who Am I?

A Gotha Quiz: Who Am I? By Darren Shelton for the European Royal History Journal. My maternal grandfather at one time was mooted as heir to a throne he did not inherit, although in time he was to become a reigning sovereign on his brother’s death. I was born to a well-known mother who was…

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Princess Abigail Kawānanakoa (1926-2022): The Last of the Aliʻi and Descendant of Hawaiian Kings

  Princess Abigail in front of a portrait of Princess Victoria Kaʻiulani. On Monday morning, the death of Princess Abigail Kawānanakoa on Sunday, 11 December, was announced in the Hawaiian language in front of the Iolani Palace in Honolulu: With profound sadness, the Kawananakoa Family, the Hale O Na Alii O Hawaii and Iolani Palace announces…

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The Wedding of Hereditary Prince Pál-Antal Esterházy von Galántha & Franziska von Reutter

On Saturday, 30 July 2022, Hereditary Prince Pál-Antal Esterházy von Galántha and Franziska von Reutter celebrated their religious marriage.  Born in 1986, Hereditary Prince Pál-Antal Esterházy von Galántha is the only child of Fürst Anton Esterházy von Galántha (b.1936) and Ursula Koenig (b.1941). Born in 1989, Franziska von Reutter is the daughter of Georg von Reutter…

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Seventy-Fifth Birthday of Crown Prince Nikola of Montenegro

Prince Mihailo and Princess Geneviève of Montenegro On 7 July 1944, Prince Nicholas (Nikola) Michael Francis of Montenegro was born at Saint-Nicolas-du-Pelem, as the only child of Prince Michael (Mihailo) of Montenegro and his wife Geneviève. Prince Mihailo (1908-1986) and Geneviève Prigent (1919-1990) had married at Paris on 27 January 1941. The pair were interned in Germany from…

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