Sumner Moore Kirby On 6 November 1934, one of the heirs to the F. W. Woolworth and Co. fortune, Sumner Moore Kirby (1895-1945), married for the third time. The bride was Princess Leonida Georgievna Bagration-Moukhranskaya (1914-2010), the daughter of Prince Giorgi Bagration-Moukhransky and Elena Sigismundovna Zlotnitzkaya. Report of Helen’s birth by the American Consular…
Prince Michael in 2013. Photo (c) Getty Images / South China Morning Post. On 10 October 1951 at Graz, Prince Michael Karl Alfred Maria Felix Moritz of Liechtenstein was born as the second child of Prince Heinrich of Liechtenstein and Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria. Michael’s paternal grandparents were Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein and Princess Theresia Maria…
Dubbie: The Double Headed Eagle Archduke Eduard of Austria, the Hungarian Ambassador to the Vatican, has authored a children’s book. Dubbie: the Double-Headed Eagle is scheduled to be published by Full Quiver Publishing on 15 December. The book’s illustrator is James Hrkach. Archduke Eduard of Austria and Baroness Maria Theresa von Gudenus on their wedding day. Eduard…
On 22 September, the engagement was announced between HSH Prince Konrad von und zu Liechtenstein and Catalina de Biolley. Princess Florentine and Prince Stefan of Liechtenstein. Prince Konrad Emanuel Josef Michael Franziskus Stephan Maria of Liechtenstein was born at Frankfurt on 15 February 1992. Konrad is the son of Prince Stefan of Liechtenstein (b.1961), Liechtenstein’s…
Lady Iris Mountbatten, 1947. Photograph (c) FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images. In the summer of 1949, twenty-nine year-old Lady Iris Mountbatten gave an interview to The American Way Weekly. She discussed her hopes and dreams surrounding her decision to relocate to North America. A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Lady Iris Mountbatten was the only child of Lord…
Archduke Maximilian and Archduchess Franziska of Austria Photograph © Alamy/Daniel Seidel Archduke Maximilan of Austria and Princess Franziska zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst On 6 December 1918, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Max Franz Otto Konrad Maria Joseph Ignatius Nikolaus of Austria was born at Vienna as the first child and eldest son of Archduke Maximilian of Austria (1895-1952) and Archduchess Franziska…
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…
An invitation to the wedding of Prince Rostislav Romanovsky. Yesterday, Prince Rostislav Rostislavovich Romanovsky and his wife held their religious wedding in France. The couple were civilly married two years ago in 2019 during a ceremony in the United Kingdom. On the invitations sent out for the religious wedding and in a related press release,…
Prince Nicholas of Romania. Photo (c) PPE / Albert Nieboer. On Saturday, 28 May, the Tulip Ball was held in Amsterdam. This year, the charitable event raised funds for the Prince Nicholas Association (Asociația Principele Nicolae) and its endeavours to combat deforestation in Romania. Among the attendees were Prince Nicholas of Romania, Hereditary Prince Alexander of Mecklenburg and…
Dear Readers and Subscribers, Wirth great satisfaction, we began shipping orders our newest book, ROMANOVS ADRIFT! The authors, Greg King and Penny Wilson, best describe their excellent work: “Romanovs Adrift offers a biographical compendium covering all members of the Dynasty between 1913 to the escape from Russia of Grand Duchess Vladimir. Individual chapters focus on Nicholas II…