My appreciation to a dear friend, member of the German Gotha, for sending us copies of two death notices: First Franz Alexander of Isenburg and Duke Friedrich of Württemberg. This has been a dreadful week in royal losses! I first met Duke Friedrich many years ago while attending a royal wedding. later, I met him…
The Albanian Royal Wedding of 1938 On 27 April 1938, King Zog I of the Albanians (né Amet Bej Zogu) married Countess Geraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagy-Appony in a grand ceremony at Tirana. The forty-two year-old groom was born on 8 October 1895 at Burgajet as the son of Xhemal Pasha Zogu (~1860-1911) and…
Maria Luisa, Duquesa de Sevilla, in 1920.Photo (c) National Portrait Gallery. Born at 1pm on 4 April 1868 at Madrid, María Luisa Enriqueta Josefina de Borbón y Parade was the first of three daughters of Enrique Pío de Borbón y Castellví, 2nd Duke of Seville (1848-1894) and Josefina Parade y Sibié (1840-1939). María Luisa’s parents wed two years after…
At the age of ninety-four, Dr. Nelly Auersperg passed away on 15 January. Nelly’s father Viktor. Born on 13 December 1928 at Vienna, Baroness Nelly Gutmann was the only daughter of Baron Viktor Gutmann von Gelse und Belišće (1891-1946) and Luise Bloch-Bauer (1907-1998), who wed in 1927. Nelly was later joined by a younger…
Dom Antônio and Dona Christine. Photograph (c) Prò Monarquia. Yesterday, September 26, Prince Dom Luiz of Orleans and Bragança, Head of the Imperial House of Brazil, granted the additional style of “Imperial Highness” to his brother, Prince Dom Antônio of Orleans and Braganza. Prince Dom Antônio will now be styled “His Imperial and Royal Highness,”…
King Simeon II of the Bulgarians attended Easter services at the St. Nedelya Metropolitan Cathedral in Sofia. With the blessing of His Holiness the Metropolitan of Sofia and Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte, at midnight His Eminence Bishop Polycarp of Belogradchik proclaimed the Resurrection of Christ to the gathered crowd and celebrated the hierarch’s Holy Liturgy…
Embed from Getty Images Duchess Beatrix Amelie Ehrengard Eilika of Oldenburg was born 27 May 1971 at Lübeck, Germany, as the eldest daughter of Duke Huno of Oldenburg (b.3 June 1940) and Countess Felicitas-Anita Schwerin von Krosigk (b.5 July 1941). Beatrix was shortly followed by a youngest sister, Duchess Sophie (b.6 November 1972). The paternal grandparents of…
The last photo of King Manuel II, 1932. On 2 July 1932, King Manuel II of Portugal died at 2pm at his home-in-exile, Fulwell Park, Twickenham. His wife Queen Victoria Auguste was at his bedside when the last Portuguese monarch passed away. A malady of the throat was the case of death for the forty-three…
☨ Doña María de las Mercedes de Zornoza y Ponce de León (1942 – 2020) Doña María de las Mercedes de Zornoza y Ponce de León marries Prince George Bagration-Mukhransky Photograph (c) Corbis Images On 17 March 2020, doña María de las Mercedes de Zornoza y Ponce de León passed away at Madrid. She was…
Note: Many thanks to Hein Bruins of Hein’s Royal Genealogy Page, who kindly informed us of this princely marriage! Coat of Arms of the Princes of Auersperg This weekend (either on 9 or 10 November 2019), Prince Alejandro “Alejo” of Auersperg married Soledad “Sole” Decombe Machao. The wedding took place in Uruguay. In time, Alejandro will…