The Romanov civil wedding in Moscow. Photo (c) David Nivière. Today at 2:00pm, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and Princess Victoria Romanovna Romanoff (née Rebecca Virginia Bettarini) were civilly married at the Khamovniki Town Hall in Moscow. The grand duke is the only child of Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia and Prince Franz Wilhelm of…
Former Crown Prince George of Serbia and his wife Radmila. On 4 July 1907 at Njeguši, Montenegro, Radmila Radonjić was born into a notable Montenegrin family. In 1947, she married the former Crown Prince George of Serbia (1887-1972), eldest son of King Peter I of Serbia (1844-1921) and Princess Zorka of Montenegro (1864-1890). Radmila…
Grand Duke George of Russia and the Duke of Braganza at the Portuguese Embassy to Russia in Moscow The Duke of Braganza, Head of the Royal House of Portugal, and Grand Duke George of Russia, the Heir to the Head of the Imperial House of Russia, met today in Moscow. They spent time both at…
Count Jan Bernadotte af Wisborg. Count Jan Bernadotte af Wisborg died on 1 September 2021. He was eighty years-old. Count Lennart Bernadotte and Karin Nissvandt, 1932. On 9 January 1941, Count Carl Johan “Jan” Gustaf Vilhelm Bernadotte af Wisborg was born at Stockholm. He was the son of Count Lennart Bernadotte af Wisborg (1909-2004; born Prince…
Prince Jean d’Orléans, Count of Paris, has issued a number of statements on the condition of the statue of King Louis XVI of France in Louisville, Kentucky. During a protest in that city, a hand was removed from the statue. George Floyd in 2016 Protests have taken place around the United States of America following…
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6300 Kensington Avenue East Richmond Heights, CA 94805 USA Email: [email protected] or [email protected] Phone: 510.236.1730 This afternoon, as is customary for him, our longtime subscriber Phil Perry took BART from San Francisco and visited Eurohistory, where he collected his copies of Issues CXVII & CXVIII. Besides having a good chat abut the latest royal…
The engaged couple. Prince Jaime of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Noto, and Lady Charlotte Diana Lindesay-Bethune will marry in Palermo on 25 September 2021. Their union will take place ninety years after the 1931 nuptials of the Count and Countess of Paris, the groom’s great-grandparents, and in the same location. Jaime and Charlotte’s engagement was…
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. It has been announced that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expecting a baby girl. The second child and first daughter of the Sussexes will be eighth in the line of succession to the British throne. Prince Harry of Wales, later Duke of Sussex, is the second son…
Crown Princess Juliana with her daughter Princess Irene Embed from Getty Images On 5 August 1939, Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands gave birth to her second daughter at Soestdijk Palace. Crown Princess Juliana had married Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld in 1937. The little princess was named Irene Emma Elisabeth, and at her birth she was…