Engagement of Prince Jean-Christophe Napoléon and Countess Olympia of Arco-Zinneberg

In March 2019, it became publicly known that Prince Jean-Christophe Napoléon, son of Prince Charles Napoléon and Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, had become engaged to Countess Olympia of Arco-Zinneberg, daughter of Count Riprand of Arco-Zinneberg and Archduchess Maria Beatrix of Autria. Jean-Christophe and Olympia have been in a relationship for some years. The prince…

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Prince Jean-Christophe Napoléon Turns 33

The Prince Napoléon Jean-Christophe Napoléon HIH Jean Christophe, Prince Napoléon, today celebrates his thirty-third birthday. Princess Caroline Napoléon, Prince Jean-Christophe Napoléon, and Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’kfMKoG-xReNqxVGfsowtdg’,sig:’o9m4HU0TIQz8wbiRA53jwopxt3WpWMNxzvdxe9itenk=’,w:’403px’,h:’594px’,items:’168467666′,caption: true ,tld:’co.uk’,is360: false })}); The prince was born on 11 July 1986 at Saint-Raphaël, Var, as the second child and only son of Prince…

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Broken Royal Engagements of Yore: Max of Baden and Beatrix of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

“Royal Cousins End Engagement.”The Gazette of Montreal, Quebec (9 Sep. 1961). Max of Baden and Beatrix of Hohenlohe-Langenburg On 7 September 1961, Fürst Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg announced that his sister, Princess Beatrix, and her fiancé, Prince Max of Baden, had broken off their engagement by mutual consent. The cause for the end of the couple was…

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The Most Recent QVD Engagement: Benjamin Sewell, Descendant of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Is Affianced To Alice Hobden

  [NOTE: A massive thank you to Michael Rhodes of Peerage News for posting this news originally.]   On Friday, 24 January 2020, the engagement was announced between Benjamin Leopold Sewell (b.1990) a descendant of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Alice S. Hobden.   Benjamin Sewell is…

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New Pictures of Duke Franz of Bavaria

Dr. Thomas Greinwald and Duke Franz of Bavaria with their dachshund.Photo credit: Erwin Olaf. We are happy to share two pictures of Duke Franz of Bavaria, Head of the Royal House. In the first photograph, Duke Franz is shown with his longtime partner Dr. Thomas Greinwald and their daschund. In the second photograph, we see…

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A Recent Marriage and Birth in the Princely Families of Germany

On 19 December 2020, Princess Teresa zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg married Alexander de Cruce Grubb Villiers-Stuart. Prince Johannes and Princess Bettina with their daughters Princess Teresa and Princess Helena.Photograph (c) PPE Agency. Alexander de Cruce Grubb Villiers-Stuart.Photograph (c) Twitter. Born in 1988 at Munich, Princess Teresa Elisabeth Marina Franziska zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg is the eldest daughter of Prince Johannes…

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From Tyranny To Freedom: The Sometimes Stranger than Fiction Life of a Noble and Notable Lady

From Tyranny To Freedom:  The Sometimes Stranger than Fiction Life of a Noble and Notable Lady   Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth (1921-2003) led one of the most extraordinary lives imaginable. Born to an extremely well-connected German noble family, her godmother and namesake was Viktoria-Luise’s maternal great-aunt, Auguste Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, the last German Empress and…

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