Embed from Getty Images This week Sotheby’s confirmed that a diamond Fabergé tiara, formerly the property of Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia (1886-1954; née Mecklenburg-Schwerin), will go to auction in Geneva on 14 May 2019. The tiara is described by the auction house as “[being] set with three circular-cut diamonds, framed with stylised laurels within an arched…
The newly engaged couple.Photograph (c) Grand Ducal Court. On Tuesday, 6 April 2021, the Grand Ducal Court announced the engagement of Prince Louis of Luxembourg and Mademoiselle Scarlett-Lauren Sirgue. The couple have been in a relationship for some time. Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa issued the following statement: “We are very happy to…
Prince Joachim of Prussia On the evening of Saturday, 17 July 1920, Prince Joachim of Prussia shot himself in the left breast while in his room at the Villa Liegnitz in Potsdam. The prince was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on Sunday, 18 July, at 1:00am as a result of…
Count Reinhart and Archduchess Immaculata at the wedding of their youngest son in 2000. Photo (c) Seeger-Press. Archduchess Maria Immaculata of Austria-Tuscany, Countess von und zu Hoensbroech died on 2 April 2022 at Engelskirchen, Germany. She was eighty-eight years-old. Maria Immaculata was buried at Schloß Kellenberg on 9 April. The wedding of Archduke Theodor Salvator…
Hereditary Prince Ferdinand and Hereditary Princess Viktoria Luise zu Leiningen welcomed their first child, a daughter, on 28 February. The newborn Princess is named Alexandra Viktoria Luise Ehrengard, after her mother and her paternal and maternal grandmothers. Ferdinand zu Leiningen and Viktoria Luise von Preußen married in 2017. Princess Alexandra zu Leiningen is…
Prince Vladimir Paley, first cousin of the last tsar, was a poet among the Romanovs. The rules of the Imperial Family prevented him from being considered a member of the dynasty due to the unequal marriage of his parents. This circumstance could have saved his life. Instead, when he was requested by the Bolsheviks to…
HRH The Princess Margaret and her husband Mr Antony Armstrong-Jones On 6 May 1960, HRH The Princess Margaret married Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey. The princess was escorted to the altar by her brother-in-law HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. At the link below, one can watch film of the royal wedding between the only sibling…
Embed from Getty Images On 6 February 1951, Princess Marie-Christine Daphné Astrid Elisabeth Léopoldine of Belgium as born at Laeken as the second child and eldest daughter of King Léopold III of the Belgians (1901-1983) and his second wife Mary Lilian Baels (1916-2002; created Princess de Réthy). As such, Marie-Christine (who sometimes goes by her…
Prince Amedeo and Princess Elisabetta of Belgium, Archduke and Archduchess of Austria-Este, have welcomed their second child, a son named Maximilian, born in Brussels on Friday, 6 September. The couple’s first child, Archduchess Anna Astrid, was born in 2016. Amedeo and Elisabetta married in 2014. For further news and articles about Europe’s Gotha families, join…
The wedding invitation to the first imperial marriage in Russia in over a century. Photograph (c) Russian Imperial Chancellery. Invitations have been sent out to the one thousand guests for the wedding of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini. The couple will celebrate their religious marriage on Friday, 1 October 2021,…