The 85th Birthday of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia

Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, 1961. Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. Today, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia celebrates her eighty-fifth birthday! Prince George, Duke of Kent, with his niece Princess Elizabeth during one of the duke’s visits to Yugoslavia. The Duke of Kent was a good friend of his brother-in-law Prince Paul.Photograph (c) Getty…

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The Story of Two Grandes Dames: Helen of Romania & Margrethe of Bourbon-Parma

Queen Mother Helen of Romania and Princess Margrethe of Bourbon-Parma in later life. Queen Mother Helen of Romania and Princess Margrethe of Bourbon-Parma were first cousins once removed. Both Helen and Margrethe were descendants of King Christian IX of Denmark (1818-1906) and his wife Queen Luise (1817-1898; née Hesse-Kassel). Helen and Margrethe’s children would later form a fantastic dynastic…

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The 55th Birthday of Landgrave Donatus of Hesse

  Today, the Landgrave of Hesse marks his fifty-fifth birthday!   The wedding of Prince Moritz of Hesse and Princess Tatiana zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 1966.Photo (c) Getty Images / Keystone-France.   Born on 17 October 1966 at Kiel, Prince Heinrich Donatus Philipp Umberto of Hesse was the second child and first son of Landgrave Moritz of Hesse and…

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The Ninetieth Birthday of Countess Beatrix von Schönburg-Glauchau, A Doyenne of the German Gotha

Embed from Getty Images Today, Countess Beatrix of Schönburg-Glauchau celebrates her 90th birthday. Count Bálint Széchényi and Princess Maria Pavlovna Galitzine Beatrix’s mum: Princess Maria Pavlovna Galitzine On 30 January 1930, Countess Beatrix Maria Valeria Therese Emerica Széchényi de Sárvár-Felsövidék was born at Hegyko, Hungary. Beatrix was the fourth daughter and last child of Count Bálint Széchényi de Sárvár-Felsövidék (1893 – 1954)…

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The Legacy of Antoine XIV, 14th Duke of Gramont: An Aristocrat Gone Before His Time

Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’l2JD13EGT1lxYsDKBGZFSA’,sig:’7Iox0qDZRg0FTx1AvOpfKa0QlgZVd6Jv0YyBxbrZ79s=’,w:’369px’,h:’594px’,items:’86348719′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); On 26 April 1951, Antoine de Gramont was born at Boulogne-sur-Seine as the only child of Henri de Gramont (1907-1995), eventual 13th Duke de Gramont, and Odile Sublet d’Heudincourt de Lénoncourt (1914- 1994), who had married in 1949. Armand, Duc de Gramont Élaine, Duchesse de Gramont The young Antoine’s…

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