Jean Christophe, Prince Napoléon, stated in an interview with Le Figaro that he and Countess Olympia will tie the knot on 19 October. The groom-to-be’s father, Prince Charles Napoléon, was born on 19 October 1950. Charles will thus celebrate his sixty-ninth birthday on the occasion of his only son’s marriage. On that day, the couple…
Antoine de Castellane. French aristocrat and artist Comte and Marquis Antoine de Castellane died on 3 February 2021. He was eighty-six years-old. Antoine’s father: Count Henri de Castellane. Antoine’s mother: Doña Silvia Rodríguez de Rivas. Born on 8 October 1934 at Paris, Antoine was the second child and eldest son of Count Henri de Castellane (1903-1937) and his wife…
Princess Abigail in front of a portrait of Princess Victoria Kaʻiulani. On Monday morning, the death of Princess Abigail Kawānanakoa on Sunday, 11 December, was announced in the Hawaiian language in front of the Iolani Palace in Honolulu: With profound sadness, the Kawananakoa Family, the Hale O Na Alii O Hawaii and Iolani Palace announces…
HRH Princess Geraldine of Albania was born at 09:30 on Thursday, 22 October, at the Queen Geraldine Maternity Hospital in Tirana. The princess is the first child of Crown Prince Leka and Crown Princess Elia of the Albanians. Both mother and child are doing well. Princess Geraldine is named for her paternal great-grandmother, Queen…
Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Queen of Spain, Duchess of Aosta. A Musy tiara formerly owned by Princess Maria Vittoria del Pozzo, Duchess of Aosta and Queen of Spain from 1870 until 1873, will go on the auction block at Sotheby’s in Geneva on 11 May. The tiara is estimated to sell for anywhere between $1 million…
An invitation to the imperial and royal wedding In April 1949, from their residence at the Palacio Grão Pará in Petropolis, Prince Pedro Gastão, Head of the Imperial Family, and his mother Princess Elisabeth of Orléans and Bragança (née Dobrzensky de Dobrzenicz) announced the engagement of their brother and son Prince João to Princess Fatima Toussoun…
Princess Tatjana. Photo (c) Fürst Alexander of Schaumburg-Lippe. Yesterday, Fürst Alexander of Schaumburg-Lippe was saddened to announce the death of his first cousin, Princess Tatjana. The princess died on the morning of Monday, 2 August 2021, at a clinic in Bavaria. She was fifty-eight years-old and had been ill with liver cancer. Sigrid and Konstantin,…
A Gotha Quiz: Who Are We? By Darren Shelton, for the European Royal History Journal. “Before we married, I loved my future wife from afar. She, however, loved another. I approached the apple of her eye and told him my plight. He spoke to her and set her straight and opened the path for me to…
Queen Margarita and King Simeon II on their religious wedding day. Today, Their Majesties King Simeon II and Queen Margarita of Bulgaria celebrate sixty years of marriage! Simeon and Margarita discuss their engagement, 1961. The engagement ring. The engagement of the couple was announced on 10 August 1961 by the Simeon’s mother Giovanna: “Her Majesty…
The princess in 2018. Today, Princess Ingrid of Waldeck and Pyrmont celebrates her ninetieth birthday! Born on 2 September 1931 at Munich, Ingrid was the third child and daughter of Fürst Josias of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1896-1967) and Duchess Altburg of Oldenburg (1903-2001), who wed in 1922. The princess had four siblings: Princess Margarethe (1923-2003),…