On This Day In History: Michael Fagan Breaks Into Buckingham Palace And Meets The Queen

Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’mZaKatCISkV2VaiM9AKwZQ’,sig:’hxY4UCkY3m7kGj5XjX3gPmdWgbjeA1_ckLlz2cxdmPo=’,w:’395px’,h:’594px’,items:’518519188′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); Thirty-seven years ago today, on the morning of 9 July 1982, thirty-three year-old Michael Fagan (a depressed father of three whose marriage was falling apart) scaled the fourteen foot walls of Buckingham Palace and shimmied up a drainpipe: he then entered the palace through a window…

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A Princely Birth in the French Royal House!

Princess Theresa and Prince François d’Orléans, 2014. According to Noblesse et Royautés, Prince François and Princess Theresa d’Orléans, Count and Countess of Dreux, welcomed the birth of their third child and second son in the autumn of last year. Prince Raphaël d’Orléans was born on 4 September 2021. Prince Raphaël joins older siblings Prince Philippe (b.2017)…

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EUROHISTORY: Royal Collections III: The Royal House of Bavaria, Volume I

The Wittelsbachs ruled over Bavaria and the Rhineland Palatinate for nearly 750 years, this fact made their dynasty one of Europe’s longes-ruling families. Theirs is a history of not only sublime exaltation, but also deep and sorrowful loss. They were patrons of the arts and letters, incredible builders, scientists, politicians, visionaries, and maddening personalities. This…

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Royal Death Notices

My appreciation to a dear friend, member of the German Gotha, for sending us copies of two death notices: First Franz Alexander of Isenburg and Duke Friedrich of Württemberg. This has been a dreadful week in royal losses! I first met Duke Friedrich many years ago while attending a royal wedding. later, I met him…

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+ Countess Maria Immaculata zu Toerring-Jettenbach (1921-2020)

From the left: The Duchess of Braganza, Margrave Maximilian of Baden, and Countess Maria-Immaculata Toerring-Jettenbach. It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Countess Maria Immaculata of Toerring-Jettenbach, widow of Count Hans Heribert (1903-1977). Archduchess Marie Alice of Austria (1913) Born on 27 July 1921 in Harmas-Hutta, Hungary, Baroness Maria Immaculata Waldbott von…

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