European Royal History

On 23 May 2010, Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna died at La Paz Hospital in Madrid. The grand duchess was ninety-five years-old. She was the last surviving member of the Imperial House of Romanov to have been born in the Russian Empire before its fall in 1917. Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’2nUPj-oFT1R987QNCQZDkQ’,sig:’FXRRQ86YigWv2K3S8yIkSyvkYW8zNERmtJ_qCzp0-dw=’,w:’594px’,h:’406px’,items:’101558333′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })});…

Grand Duchess Adelheid of Luxembourg. On 25 December 1833, Princess Adelheid of Anhalt was born at Dessau to Prince Friedrich August of Anhalt and his wife Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel. In 1851, Adelheid became the second wife of Duke Adolphe of Nassau, who became the Grand Duke of Luxembourg in 1890. The widowed Dowager Grand Duchess…

HRH The Margrave of Meißen has informed us of the death of his aunt Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, last surviving child of the late Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meißen, and of his late wife the former Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn und Taxis.

SAR la Princesse Marguerite D’ORLÉANS, DUCHESSE DE NEMOURS née Marguerite Carrington Watson Well, this is to say that a portrait of the Duchess of Nemours (which, I am thrilled to write, I have recently acquired) will be relocating from France to the United States. The duchess was born Marguerite “Peggy” Watson on 12 February 1899…

Photograph (c) EPA-EFE. On Wednesday evening, a group of about 500 people turned up to demonstrate outside the police station on rue de Brabant in Brussels. The group were demanding answers from authorities in regards to the death in police custody on Monday of Ibrahima Barrie, who was only twenty-three years-old. According to royal reporter Wim…