A Romanov Christening in Moscow! Princess Victoria holds Prince Alexander while Grand Duke George looks on.Photo (c) Konstantin Gribov / Imperial Chancellery. Yesterday, the christening of H.S.H. Prince Alexander Georgevich Romanoff, son of H.I.H. Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and H.S.H. Princess Victoria Romanovna, took place at 1:00pm at the Transfiguration Church within the Cathedral of…
On 21 January 1952, Nicholas Romanovich Romanoff (1922-2014) married Countess Sveva della Gherardesca (b.1930) at the Russian Cathedral in Cannes. Nicholas was the eldest son of Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (1896-1978) and his wife Countess Prascovia Dmitrievna Cheremeteva (1901-1980), who wed in 1921. Sveva was the daughter of Count Walfredo della Gherardesca (1894-1953) and Countess Nicoletta…
Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’lcxDNx8WQwBOIE5GsmGK8Q’,sig:’Bwuh4e4sWSbvPKWrEBC2t7XWYxrcUTxAUaXTUixH3tE=’,w:’594px’,h:’593px’,items:’158748499′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); The engagement between Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, and Princess Claude d’Orléans was announced in September 1963. Prince Amedeo of Savoy (b.1943) was the only child of Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, and Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark. Princess Claude (b.1943) was the ninth child…
In August 2018, Angelica Kreuger filed for a dissolution of her marriage to Richard Knight, and a divorce was granted in November 2018. The couple married in 2009. Angelica and Richard have two daughters: Courtney (b.2007) and Diana (b.2011). King Michael of Romania with three of his daughters: Helen, Irina, and Sophie. Angelica is the…
Prince Karl of Hesse (1937-2022), Nephew of the Duke of Edinburgh On 23 March 2022, Prince Karl of Hesse died in Munich. He was eighty-four years-old. The prince was a nephew of the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Princess Sophie of Greece and Prince Christoph of Hesse. Born on 26 March 1937 at…
On Friday, 27 March, Archduke Sigismund of Austria, Titular Grand Duke of Tuscany, issued a statement offering good wishes and strength to the Tuscan people during the ongoing public health crisis due to coronavirus. Sigismund (b.1966) is the Head of the Grand Ducal House of Tuscany. He is son of Archduke Leopold Franz (b.1942),…
Photograph courtesy of the Russian Imperial Chancellery. Photograph courtesy of the Russian Imperial Chancellery. Photograph courtesy of the Russian Imperial Chancellery. Today, 20 January 2021, the Chancellery of the Imperial House of Russia announced the engagement of HIH Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and Nob. Rebecca Virginia Bettarini. The statement reads…
Princess Olga.Painted by her mother Marina Karella (Princess Marina of Greece). Today, Princess Olga of Savoy, Duchess of Aosta, celebrates her fiftieth birthday! Princess Olga and her father Prince Michael. Born at Athens on 17 November 1971, Princess Olga Isabelle of Greece is the second daughter of Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark (b.1939)…
Recently, the engagement between Count Benno Czernin-Kinsky (b.1990) and Countess Antonia von Mensdorff-Pouilly (b.1992) has been announced. Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Antonia is a Saxe-Coburg descendant: she is a great-great-great-granddaughter of Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1778-1835). In 1804, Sophie married Emmanuel von Mensdorff-Pouilly (1777-1852). Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was the sister of the eventual King Leopold I of…
Feli and Wenzel.Photo (c) Prince Johann Wenzel von und zu Liechtenstein.This image may be not reproduced without his permission. Prince Johann Wenzel von und zu Liechtenstein and Countess Felicitas von Hartig are engaged! The kind couple shared the details of their engagement with royal reporters and writers, including me. This was very sweet of them….