Alick Dru and Lady Tatiana Mountbatten at Royal Ascot, June 2021.Photo (c) Getty Images / Kirsten Sinclair. Through her social media, Lady Tatiana Mountbatten recently announced her engagement to Alexander Dru. The engagement announcement in The Telegraph, 8 January. The official announcement of the engagement was placed in The Telegraph by Tatiana’s mother, Lady Spencer of…
Alice Javal Weiller. The birth record of Alice Anna Laval, 1869. NOTE: My sincere gratitude to my dear friend Jakob Regnér, who discovered much of the information about the life story and tragic fate of Alice Javal Weiller. On 10 October 1869 at Paris, Alice Anna Javal was born as the eldest child of Louis Émile Javal (1839-1907)…
Princess Beatrice of York and Edoardo Mapelli-MozziPhotograph (c) Princess Eugenie of York The Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York, have announced the engagement of their eldest daughter Beatrice (b.8 August 1988) to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi (b.19 November 1983), son of Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi (b.1951) and Nicola Burrows (b.1956). The engagement took place earlier…
[This post was written by Arturo E. Béeche and originally appeared on Eurohistory’s former blog in 2013.] I purchased this beautiful photo at an auction in Berlin two weeks ago. It was a hard fought battle, but luckily I succeeded and now this amazingly rare, signed photo is part of the Eurohistory Archive! But…
A Biographical Sketch of the Last Princess of Russia: Catherine Ivanovna Romanova Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna with her grandchildren Catherine and Vsevolod King Nikola I of Montenegro with his great-grandchildren Catherine and Vsevolod On 25 July 1915 at Pavlovsk Palace in St. Petersburg, Her Serene Highness Princess Ekaterina (Catherine) Ivanovna of Russia entered the twilight…
Prince Oskar Arnold in 2013. Photo (c) Detlev Blohm. Prince Oskar Arnold zu Bentheim und Steinfurt died on 3 August 2021 at Burgsteinfurt. Fürst Viktor Adolf. Born on 8 March 1946 at Burgsteinfurt, Prince Oskar Arnold zu Bentheim und Steinfurt was the seventh and last child of Fürst Viktor Adolf zu Bentheim und Steinfurt (1883-1961) and his second wife…
“A new two-part documentary series about the Duchy of Cornwall will be broadcast on ITV at 9pm on Thursday 24th October and Thursday 31st October. Prince Charles: Inside the Duchy of Cornwall celebrates The Prince of Wales’ 50th working year as The Duke of Cornwall, overseeing the historic Duchy of Cornwall estate. The programme follows…
The civil wedding of Prince Karl Franz Josef of Prussia and Princess Henriette von Schönaich-Carolath. Karl Franz Josef and Henriette. On 6 August 1940 at his residence at Doorn, German Emperor Wilhelm II officially announced the engagement of his grandson Prince Karl Franz Joseph to his stepdaughter, Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath. Ever since his…
The Albanian Royal Family returns to their country for the first time since 1939.Photograph (c) HRH Crown Prince Leka of the Albanians Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images On Friday, 28 June 2002, the Albanian royal family returned to Albania for the first time in sixty-three years. Among the returning members of…
Today His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall celebrate their fourteenth wedding anniversary. The forthcoming nuptials of the Prince and Mrs Parker Bowles were announced on 10 February 2005. Under the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, the Queen granted her consent for the marriage to take place…