François Luce-Bailly de Chevigny and Duchess Margarethe of Württemberg attending the funeral of the Countess of Paris at Dreux, 11 July 2003. François Luce-Bailly de Chevigny died on 6th March 2022 at Neuilly-sur-Seine. He was ninety-eight years-old. Born on 15 June 1923 at Paris, François Luce was the son of Emile Léon Marie Luce (1886-1979)…
Prince Georg of Hannover and his mother Princess Sophie in 1996 Photograph (c) Seeger-Presse Today, 9 December, Prince Georg of Hannover marks his seventieth birthday. Through his father Georg Wilhelm, Georg of Hannover is a nephew of Prince Ernst August of Hannover (1914-1987), Queen Frederica of Greece (1917-1981; wife of King Paul of the Hellenes),…
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini Photograph (c) Russian Imperial House Between 11-13 July 2020, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and Rebecca Bettarini visited St. Petersburg. On 12 July, the feast day of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, the couple attended the Divine Liturgy in the Ss. Peter and…
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…
Today His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall celebrate their fourteenth wedding anniversary. The forthcoming nuptials of the Prince and Mrs Parker Bowles were announced on 10 February 2005. Under the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, the Queen granted her consent for the marriage to take place…
Prince Louis and Princess Alix Napoléon with the twins. On 19 October 1950, Prince Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Napoléon and Princess Catherine Elisabeth Albérique Marie Napoléon were born at Boulogne-sur-Seine. The first twins in the Bonaparte dynasty. The twins were the children of Prince Louis Napoléon (1914-1997), son of Prince Victor Napoléon…
Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images In April 2008, during a segment of the VTM programme Het Nieuws, Queen Fabiola of Belgium was recorded speaking for the first time about the five miscarriages that she experienced. From 1960 until his death in 1993, Fabiola was the wife and…
This year, for the fifth such gathering, EUROHISTORY and Hoogstraten English Bookstore welcome participants to Royal Gatherings in The Hague! The lectures to be presented include: Saturday, November 10: 9:45 – 10:00 – Opening remarks 10:00 – 10:45 – W. Vermeulen: “Ludwig, a disappointed King.” 11:00 – 11:45 – G.J. Frisch: “King Georg V…
Queen Mother Helen of Romania and Princess Margrethe of Bourbon-Parma in later life. Queen Mother Helen of Romania and Princess Margrethe of Bourbon-Parma were first cousins once removed. Both Helen and Margrethe were descendants of King Christian IX of Denmark (1818-1906) and his wife Queen Luise (1817-1898; née Hesse-Kassel). Helen and Margrethe’s children would later form a fantastic dynastic…
Today, Princess Béatrice d’Orléans celebrates her eightieth birthday! Béatrice. Born on 24 October 1941 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Béatrice Marie Guillemine Huguette Pasquier de Franclieu was the second of the three daughters of Bruno Pasquier de Franclieu (1914-1944) and his wife Jacqueline Térisse (1918-1999), who married in 1938. Béatrice studied political science at the Sorbonne and then received a…