The 80th Birthdays of Michel & Jacques d’Orléans, the French Royal Twins

The twin French princelings. Today, Prince Michel d’Orléans, Count of Évreux, and Prince Jacques d’Orléans, Duke of Orléans, celebrate their eightieth birthdays! On 25 June 1941, Prince Michel Joseph Benoît Marie d’Orléans and Prince Jacques Jean Jaroslav Marie d’Orléans were born at Rabat, Morocco. The twin boys were the seventh and eighth children of Prince…

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A Charming Photo of the Aosta Family!

Photo (c) Casa Reale di Savoia. On the revamped website of the Royal House of Savoy, there is a lovely picture of the royal family. We see Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, and Princess Olga, Duchess of Aosta, with their three children: Prince Umberto, Prince Amedeo, and Princess Isabella.   Prince Amedeo, Princess Claude, Princess Bianca,…

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Government Gives Royal House of Romania Free Use of Elisabeta Palace for 49 Years

Elisabeta Palace, the headquarters of the Romanian Royal Family in Bucharest Yesterday, 11 May 2020, the government of Prime Minister Ludovic Orban of Romania gave free use of the Elisabeta Palace in Bucharest to Her Majesty’s Household Association (specifically, to the entity called Asociației Casa Majestăţii Sale). The decision was made by the Orban government following the…

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The 90th Birthday of Princess Isabelle d’Orléans, Countess of Schönborn-Buchheim

Count Friedrich Karl von Schönborn and Princess Isabelle d’Orléans at the funeral of Madame the Countess of Paris, 2003. Today, Princess Isabelle d’Orléans celebrates her ninetieth birthday! Isabelle with her grandparents/godparents: Princess Elizabeth of Orléans-Branganza and the Duke of Guise, 1932. The baptism of Princess Isabelle. From left to right: Princess Isabelle, Countess d’Harcourt; the…

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