European Royal History

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  King Simeon II of the Bulgarians attended Easter services at the St. Nedelya Metropolitan Cathedral in Sofia. With the blessing of His Holiness the Metropolitan of Sofia and Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte, at midnight His Eminence Bishop Polycarp of Belogradchik proclaimed the Resurrection of Christ to the gathered crowd and celebrated the hierarch’s Holy Liturgy…

Today, HM King Albert II issued a communiqué on the topic of the meeting between two of his children, HM The King of the Belgians and HRH Princess Delphine of Belgium. Last Friday, brother and sister met at Laeken Castle and connected over the course of a three-hour lunch. More meetings are planned in the…

Today Nicholas of Romania celebrates his thirty-fourth birthday! Embed from Getty Images Nicholas Michael de Roumanie Medforth-Mills was born on 1 April 1985 at Meyrin, Switzerland, as the eldest child and only son of Princess Helen of Romania (b.1950) and Dr Robin Medforth-Mills (1942-2002), who had married in 1983. Nicholas was baptised into the Romanian…

Queen Marie-José of Italy. A study of the May Queen by Theodore Strawinsky. On 27 January 2001, Queen Marie-José of Italy passed away in Geneva. She was ninety-four years-old.  Left to right: Prince Léopold, Princess Marie-José, and Prince Charles. Photograph (c) Getty Images/Hutton Archive. King Albert I and Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians with their daughter…

Yesterday The Times carried the announcement of the engagement of Charles “Charlie” Carnegie, Earl of Southesk, to Camille Ascoli. A further announcement appeared today in The Telegraph. Camille Ascoli was born at Paris on 6 March 1990 as the daughter of Roberto Ascoli and Valérie Ledoux. Charles Duff Carnegie, Earl of Southesk, was born on…

The birthday boy: Prince Oscar of Sweden.Photograph (c) Kate Gabor.   Photograph (c) Kate Gabor. Today, Prince Oscar of Sweden celebrates his fifth birthday! Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne, is the younger child and only son of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and her husband Prince Daniel. Oscar is a grandson of King Carl XVI Gustaf…

Noble Couplings That Were Not To Be:  Hereditary Prince Gustav of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Elvire Pasté de Rochefort Princess Benedikte of Denmark, Fürst Richard of S-W-B, Elvire Pasté de Rochefort, Prince Gustav of S-W-B On 16 August 2000, the Danish royal house announced the betrothal between Prince Gustav of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (b.12 January 1969; eldest of three…

Prince Hermann and Princess Isabelle zu Leiningen have welcomed the arrival of their first child. Prince Leopold Konstantin Rainer Andreas zu Leiningen was born in 2019. Leopold was baptised at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Amorbach on 5 January 2020. The prince’s godparents are Princess Cecilia zu Leiningen, Count Konstantin von Schönborn, and Leopold Ferch. Princess Cecilia zu Leiningen…