European Royal History

Queen Marie-José of Italy. A study of the May Queen by Theodore Strawinsky. On 27 January 2001, Queen Marie-José of Italy passed away in Geneva. She was ninety-four years-old.  Left to right: Prince Léopold, Princess Marie-José, and Prince Charles. Photograph (c) Getty Images/Hutton Archive. King Albert I and Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians with their daughter…

Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta, with her infant son Prince Amedeo in 1943. On 27 September 1943, Prince Amedeo Umberto Constantino Giorgio Paolo Elena Maria Fiorenzo Zvonimir of Savoy-Aosta was born at Florence. Amedeo was the only child of Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta and erstwhile King of Croatia as Tomislav II, and his wife…

As you can watch at the link above, the Duke of York gave an interview to Emily Maitlis about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and the allegations against him. It was broadcast on BBC Newsnight this evening. The duke denied any knowledge of anything untoward regarding Epstein, and the duke denied that he himself had…

The Secretariat of Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, has confirmed that the prince has decided to abolish to Salic Law, which governs the line of succession in the Royal House of Savoy, and to replace it with absolute primogenture. Vittorio Emanuele is the only son of the late King Umberto II of Italy and Queen…

Embed from Getty Images Today, Prince Hans Adam II and Princess Marie Agläe of Liechtenstein celebrate fifty-two years of marriage. Embed from Getty Images The then Hereditary Prince Hans Adam of Liechtenstein (b.1945) and Countess Marie Agläe Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (b.1940) were wed at St Florin’s in Vaduz on 30 July 1967. Hans…

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Death of a Romanov Prince – Prince Oleg Konstantinovich’s Promising Life and Early Death “The coffin was lowered into the grave……    “Soon there was a burial mound above. It was quickly covered with wreaths, flowers and crowned with a plain wooden cross. Prince Oleg’s promising life was finished.”    Death of a Romanov Prince…

Photograph © PPE/Jeroen van der Meyde  Photograph © PPE/Jeroen van der Meyde Prince Carlos Xavier and Princess Annemarie, Duke and Duchess of Parma, were recently photographed with their family at The Hague. The Duke is the son of the late Prince Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma (1930-2010) and his former wife Princess Irene of the Netherlands…

Screenshot from MUGSHOTS.COM / Photos shown are (c) MUGSHOTS.COM On 12 January 2009, HRH Princess Marie of Romania was booked in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, on the charge of “failure to appear.” In the typical terse terms of a police report, it was noted that Marie was 5’8″ and 162 lbs with blonde hair…