Emperor Bao Dai and his wife Princess Vĩnh Thụy in 1992. Photo (c) Raymond Reuter/Sygma/Corbis. French journalist and royal researcher Frederic de Natal has reported the recent death of Empress Tây Phuong of Vietnam, the widow of Emperor Bаo Đai. The empress reportedly passed away on the night of 27/28 September at Paris. She was seventy-five…
THE SISTERS Princess Daisy of Pleß and Shelagh, Duchess of Westminster Every so often, here at EUROHISTORY, we receive a book that fills a much-needed niche in our study of European royalty and aristocracy. Much to our absolute delight, this is what THE SISTERS does so beautifully! The book brings to the reader, in great…
Nicolae al Romaniei and his wife Alina-Maria with their daughter Maria-Alexandra. Photo (c) Felicia Simion. Yesterday, 5 December, Nicholas of Romania announced that his wife Alina-Maria is expecting a baby in Spring 2022. This will be the second child for the couple. Nicholas of Romania, a grandson of King Michael and Queen Anne of Romania…
Four more of our books were listed today in the Bookstore section (Shop Now) of our website at http://www.eurohistory.com These new listings include: Click To Order Russia and Europe This excellent book, authored by Galina Korneva and Tatiana Cheboksarova, includes nearly 600 photos, an overwhelming majority among them collected from the main archives of…
La duchesse d’Harcourt.Portrait (c) Carme Arisa. Thyra de Zayas, Duchesse d’Harcourt, died on 8 November 2021. She was ninety-one years-old. Alfonso de Zayas. Juliette d’Harcourt. Born on 31 August 1930 at Palma de Mallorca, Maria Teresa “Thyra” de Zayas y d’Harcourt was the daughter of don Alfonso de Zayas y Bobadilla (1896-1970), Marques de…
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.” (by Oleg’s brother Prince Gabriel in Memories of the…
Victoria Romanovna wearing the Lacis Tiara. Photograph (c) David Nivière. On Thursday, Victoria Romanovna (Rebecca) Bettarini was kind enough to send photographs by noted French photographer David Nivière as well as the full English translation of an interview which appeared in an abbreviated form in Point de Vue. In the interview, Victoria Romanovna tells of…
The Hereditary Prince and Princess of Leiningen on their wedding day. Photograph (c) Micky Goeler. As reported by Bunte, Hereditary Prince Ferdinand zu Leiningen and his wife Hereditary Princess Viktoria Luise (née Prinzessin von Preussen) are expecting their second child. The couple married in 2017. They are the parents of a daughter Princess Alexandra (b.2020).
The young prince. Today, Hereditary Prince Nicodemus zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg turns twenty years-old. Hereditary Prince Carl Friedrich zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg and Baroness Stephanie von Brenken on their wedding day, 1998. Photo (c) Seeger-Press. Born on 2 August 2001 at Oslo, Norway, Prince Nicodemus Hieronymus Alois Georg Hubertus Mario Hugo Eusebius Maria zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg was the second child and first son…
Embed from Getty Images Today, Princess Helen of Romania celebrates her sixty-ninth birthday. The birth of Princess Helen of Romania as announced in the press(1950) King Michael and Queen Anne of Romania with their daughters, Princesses Margarita and Helen(1953) Princess Helen of Romania was born at the Clinique de Montchoisi in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 15…