This is not a drill. The embargoed 1969 documentary Royal Family is currently available on YouTube in all its glory. Enjoy the forbidden fruit while it is available! Here is the link: https://youtu.be/EX8eX6weSHc Note: as of Thursday, 28 January, the video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)….
Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duchess Eleonore, and Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus and Prince Ludwig The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine with their two sons Eleonore with Georg Donatus and Ludwig Prince Ludwig Hermann Alexander Chlodwig of Hesse and by Rhine was born on 20 November 1908 as…
Lady Moyra Hamilton in 1953. Photograph (c) National Portrait Gallery. Lady Moyra Kathleen Hamilton was born at London on 22 July 1930 as the first child and only daughter of James, Marquess of Hamilton (1904-1979; later 4th Duke of Abercorn), and his wife Lady Mary Crichton (1905-1990), who married in 1928. Moyra’s paternal grandparents were…
Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie of Luxembourg on their wedding day. On Sunday (today), 10 May 2020, the Grand Ducal Court delivered the happy news of the birth of the first child of Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie of Luxembourg. The hereditary grand duchess was delivered of…
Lord Frederick Wellesley. Lord Frederick Wellesley pictured behind Prince Jean Christophe Napoléon. Lord Frederick Wellesley. On 25 February 2021, Nicholas Lambert placed the following announcement in The Telegraph announcing the engagement of his daughter: The engagement is announced between Captain Frederick Wellesley, The Blues and Royals, younger son of the Duke and Duchess of Wellington,…
Note: Many thanks to our dear friend Hein Bruins, of Hein’s Royal Genealogy Page, who kindly informed us of the birth of this newest descendant of Duke Roberto I of Parma and Piacenza! Tristan de Bourbon Parme and his wife Shira Szabo have welcomed the birth of their first son, who has been named Imri. Imri de…
A Hohenzollern gathering at Burg Hohenzollern in 1961. Front row: Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Fürstin Margarete of Hohenzollern, Countess Augusta Victoria Douglas, and Princess Xenia of Prussia. On 29 August 1966, Countess Augusta Victoria Douglas (née Princess of Hohenzollern; former Queen of Portugal) died at Eigeltingen, Baden-Württemberg. She was seventy-six years-old. Princess Maria Teresa…
Henri & Marie-Thérèse. The Royal Chapel of Dreux. The invitation to the royal wedding. Sixty-five years ago today, Prince Henri d’Orléans, Count of Clermont, and Duchess Marie-Thérèse of Württemberg were married at Dreux. The first photo of Henri: the prince is held by his mother, the Countess of Paris, while his older sister Princess Isabelle plants…
A Gotha Quiz: Who Am I? By Darren Shelton for the European Royal History Journal. Upon my birth, I was the product of an interesting and varied family tree. My bloodline teamed with the bluest of blood from the best of reigning families, to a sprinkling of a more “wild and romantic variety” from…
Sárolta Wutholen in 2015. On 2 November 2020, Sárolta von Habsburg-Lothringen Wutholen died at the age of eighty in Switzerland. Archduke Albrecht of Austria and Katalin Bocskay de Felsö-Bánya on their wedding day. Born at Budapest on 3 March 1940, Sárolta (Charlotte) Isabella Mária Krisztine Eszter Katalin Pia von Habsburg, was the first child of…