In The Telegraph of Monday, 27 July 2020, the engagement was announced between Frederick “Fritzi” von Preussen and Mathilda “Tilly” Johnson. The couple have been dating for several years. Fritzi von Preussen is a second cousin of Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia, Head of the Royal House. Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Embed…
Before her fourth birthday tomorrow, three images of Princess Charlotte of Cambridge have been released by the Royal Family. The pictures were taken by her mother the Duchess of Cambridge at the family home in Norfolk last month. Princess Charlotte was born on 2 May 2015 at St Mary’s Hospital, London.
Princess Maria. Maria Madelaine (de) Kossaczky was born on 9 December 1924 at Budapest, Hungary, as the only child of Major General Árpád Vitéz Kossaczky (Szeleste, Austria-Hungary 9 April 1886-Miami, Florida 24 June 1967) and Ilona Wallner (Nagyszombat, Austria-Hungary 16 November 1891-Greenwich, Connecticut 3 December 1983). Árpád and Ilona were married on 10 November…
Princess Victoria with her father Ambassador Bettarini. Photo (c) Getty Images / Peter Kovalev. A happy father and his beautiful daughter. Photo (c) Getty Images / Peter Kovalev. The happy groom, Grand Duke George, waves to those outside the Russian Museum of Ethnography. Photo (c) Peter Kovalev / TASS / Newscom. Yesterday evening, guests gathered at…
The newlyweds. Photo (c) Alain BENAINOUS/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. Today, Princess Kalina of Bulgaria and Antonio José “Kitin” Muñoz y Valcárcel celebrate twenty years of marriage! The princess and her parents. Photo (c) Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images. On 25 October 2002, a reception was hosted by King Simeon II and Queen Margarita at…
Centennial of the Death of Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna Sr. Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna of Russia (1854-1920) Born at Schloß Ludwigslust on May 14, 1854, as the daughter of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1823-1883) and his first wife, the former Princess Auguste Reuß. In August 1874, Marie married Grand Duke…
His Majesty King Fuad.Photo (c) Fouad II, Official Site. Today, HM King Fuad II of Egypt celebrates his seventieth birthday! The infant prince in the Cairo’s Abdeen Palace. King Farouk and Queen Narriman of Egypt with their son Prince Fuad. Born on 16 January 1952 at Cairo, Prince Ahmad Fuad of Egypt was the first and only child…
“COMING!!!”Poster from the anti-monarchy campaign in the 1974 Greek referendum. In the chapter on King Constantine II of Greece in Royalty in Exile by Charles Fenyvesi, the author notes on page 181 that “the most effective weapon in the antimonarchist campaign was a poster with Frederika’s picture captioned, ‘I am coming!’“ For almost a decade, I was…
Nadejda. Today, Fürstin Nadejda von Starhemberg celebrates her sixtieth birthday! Born on 29 Jun 1961 at Köln-Lindenthal, Countess Nadejda von Abensperg und Traun was born as the daughter of Count Ernst Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun and Felicia Guepin. In September 1988, Nadejda married Fürst Georg Adam von Starhemberg (b.1961). The couple have four children, two sons…
Queen Marie of Yugoslavia in Paris at the 25th commemoration of the death of her husband (1959) On 22 June 1961, Queen Marie of Yugoslavia died in London at the age of sixty-one. She was survived by her three sons: King Peter II, Prince Tomislav, and Prince Andrej. The queen had been a widow since the…