OTD: Sixty Years Since the Death of Prince François d’Orleans During Military Service in Algeria

Press coverage of the death of Prince François d’Orléans. On Tuesday, 11 October 1960, Prince François d’Orléans was killed in action at the Kabilye Mountains by members of the Algerian National Front. The prince, twenty-five and a second lieutenant in the Chasseurs Alpins, had returned from a leave in France just three weeks earlier. Upon…

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Archduke Leopold Franz of Austria (1942-2021), Former Head of the Grand Ducal Tuscan Habsburgs

A portrait of Archduke Leopold Franz. According to his son Archduke Sigismund, Archduke Leopold Franz of Austria, former titular Grand Duke of Tuscany, died in June 2021. Leopold Franz was seventy-eight years-old. He is survived by his two sons, Sigismund and Guntram, as well as by five grandchildren. Archduchess Dorothea and Archduke Gottfried of Austria,…

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Rest In Peace: The Creative and Charismatic Countess Beatrice von Hardenberg, Former Duchess of Seville

☨  Countess Beatrice von Hardenberg (1947 – 2020) Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’_64cDEl8SoRbKS4CGe0hag’,sig:’meo0tsdLhAPhJ9ppOlp47URmbmp9DI3Pw7TmfwdBUTg=’,w:’426px’,h:’594px’,items:’505080650′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); On the morning of Friday, 13 March, Countess Beatrice von Hardenberg passed away in Marbella, Spain. She was seventy-two years-old. Beatrice’s death was announced by her daughter, Olivia, in the following message: With great sorrow, I inform you…

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Baron Georg Heinrich “Heini” Thyssen-Bornemisza (1950-2022)

The baron’s death notice in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of 15 October 2022. Georg Heinrich and his father Hans Heinrich in St. Moritz.  Photo (c) Mike Forster/ANL/Shutterstock. Georg Heinrich “Heini” Thyssen-Bornemisza passed away recently. The Swiss-born German aristocrat and businessman was seventy-two years-old. Baron Hans Heinrich Bornemisza de Kászon and Princess Teresa zur Lippe-Weißenfeld. Photo (c) Getty Images….

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Märtha Louise’s Shaman Beau Tried to Have His Ex-Boyfriend Sign NDA

Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’10wXORvMRJRmXRbYrdGI7w’,sig:’M9gk6L8wQ-EI22DrVEZguD4lsCMr2bocCnXXmbFp7ww=’,w:’594px’,h:’396px’,items:’1144024843′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); The Norwegian press is reporting that self-proclaimed Shaman Durek Verrett, the partner of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway, attempted to have his former boyfriend, Hank Greenberg, sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). The NDA request came from Verrett just days after his relationship with the princess became public…

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