The Duchess of Angoulême Celebrates Her Fiftieth Birthday

Embed from Getty Images   Embed from Getty Images On 25 June 1969, Marie-Liesse Claude Anne Rolande de Rohan-Chabot was born at Paris as the first child of Count Louis-Mériadec de Rohan-Chabot (b.1937) and his wife Princess Isabelle Marie Laurence Mathilde de Bauffremont-Courtenay (b.1944). Louis and Isabelle had married in 1968. Marie-Liesse was joined by five siblings: Thibault (b.1970), Eléonore…

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The Fiftieth Birthday of Hereditary Prince Bernhard of Baden, Great-Nephew of the Duke of Edinburgh

Embed from Getty Images Today, Hereditary Prince Bernhard of Baden marks his fiftieth birthday! Margravine Valerie of Baden with her son Hereditary Prince Bernhard at his christening on 6 July 1970Photograph (c) Seeger-Presse On 27 May 1970, Prince Bernhard Max Friedrich August Gustav Ludwig Kraft of Baden was born at Schloss Salem, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was…

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Archduke Leopold Franz of Austria (1942-2021), Former Head of the Grand Ducal Tuscan Habsburgs

A portrait of Archduke Leopold Franz. According to his son Archduke Sigismund, Archduke Leopold Franz of Austria, former titular Grand Duke of Tuscany, died in June 2021. Leopold Franz was seventy-eight years-old. He is survived by his two sons, Sigismund and Guntram, as well as by five grandchildren. Archduchess Dorothea and Archduke Gottfried of Austria,…

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The 70th Birthday of Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Mother of Prince Napoléon

Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies Today, Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies celebrates her seventieth birthday. The wedding of Prince Ferdinando of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and Chantal de Chevron-Villette   Embed from Getty Images On 16 June 1950, Princess Béatrice Marie Caroline Louise Françoise of Bourbon-Two Sicilies was born at Saint-Raphaël, Var, France. The princess was the first…

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