Princess Ilke and Prince Ulrich zu Wied at the wedding of Duchess Fleur of Württemberg.Photograph (c) Seeger-Presse. Aged eighty-three, Princess Ilke zu Wied passed away on 26 November 2020. Born Ilke Fischer on 9 December 1936 at Bonn, she was the daughter of Dr. Gottfried Fischer and Dr. Maria Mühlenbein. In 1968, Ilke Fischer married…
Henri and Micaëla Today, HRH Princess Micaëla d’Orléans, Dowager Countess of Paris, marks her eighty-first birthday. The Dowager Countess of Paris was born doña Micaëla Ana María Cousiño y Quiñones de León on 30 April 1938 at Vichy, France. Her parents were Luis Maximiliano Cousiño y Sébire (1895-1970) and his wife doña Antonia Quiñones de Léon y…
Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie of Luxembourg on their wedding day. On Sunday (today), 10 May 2020, the Grand Ducal Court delivered the happy news of the birth of the first child of Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie of Luxembourg. The hereditary grand duchess was delivered of…
A Gotha Quiz: Who Am I? By Darren Shelton for the European Royal History Journal. My maternal grandfather at one time was mooted as heir to a throne he did not inherit, although in time he was to become a reigning sovereign on his brother’s death. I was born to a well-known mother who was…
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…
Victoria and Daniel. Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, Duchess of Västergötland, and her husband Prince Daniel have tested positive for COVID-19. The royal couple tested positive on the one year anniversary of the first Swedish death from the novel coronavirus. The Swedish Royal House announced the news on social media, stating that the couple are showing “slight…
Today, Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice, issued a rather cryptic video message via social media. His message was also carried on the Italian television channel Mediaset at 9pm. View this post on Instagram Sta arrivando il momento. È per me un dovere, ma anche un grande onore, annunciarvi l’imminente ritorno della Famiglia Reale….
“Royal Cousins End Engagement.”The Gazette of Montreal, Quebec (9 Sep. 1961). Max of Baden and Beatrix of Hohenlohe-Langenburg On 7 September 1961, Fürst Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg announced that his sister, Princess Beatrix, and her fiancé, Prince Max of Baden, had broken off their engagement by mutual consent. The cause for the end of the couple was…
Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg Today, Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg, Countess of Holstein-Ledreborg, celebrates her ninety-fifth birthday! She is the sister of the late Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg and the aunt of Grand Duke Henri. Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’07C_LAxNTMREvnjL80o9rg’,sig:’i4Y2LsVG51HzJEODwFxCwskiAe4RmEwjWnXPHvWxnM0=’,w:’594px’,h:’459px’,items:’558648279′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’MJRxtibATnFcbBjVyCneBA’,sig:’7bamV_Gay_DDUrMfZJlv8Nb86r0MiZq78ZB9nWh_xz0=’,w:’390px’,h:’594px’,items:’537571145′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); Embed…
Archduke Karl and Archduchess Camilla of Austria, 2019. Photo (c) IMAGO / Viennareport. In the late 1980s or early 1990s, Archduke Karl of Austria (b.1961) was in a relationship with his distant cousin Camilla Habsburg-Lothringen (b.1962). Karl was the eldest son and heir of Archduke Otto of Austria, Crown Prince of Hungary, and his wife Archduchess…