The Newlyweds: Prince Victor Napoléon and Princess Clémentine of Belgium On Monday, 14 November 1910, Prince Victor Napoléon and Princess Clémentine of Belgium were married at Moncalieri, a picturesque village a few miles from Turin. Before the religious rites, the pair were wed in a civil ceremony by the Mayor of Moncalieri at the French Consulate….
Count Jan Bernadotte af Wisborg. On 9 January 1941, Count Carl Johan “Jan” Gustaf Vilhelm Bernadotte af Wisborg was born at Stockholm. He was the son of Count Lennart Bernadotte af Wisborg (1909-2004; born Prince Lennart of Sweden) and his first wife Karin Nissvandt (1911-1991). Count Jan’s paternal grandparents were Prince Wilhelm of Sweden (1884-1965), Duke of…
Sixty years ago today, on 2 July 1959, the Prince of Liège and Donna Paola Ruffo di Calabria were married at the Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula in Brussels. The groom Albert was the son of King Léopold III of the Belgians and the late Queen Astrid (née Sweden). The bride was the daughter…
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, Countess von Oppersdorff, at the funeral of her brother Landgrave Moritz of Hesse in 2013.Photograph (c) Eurohistory. Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, Countess von Oppersdorff, marks her eightieth birthday today. Embed from Getty Images On 8 October 1940, Princess Elisabeth Margarethe Elena Johanna Maria Jolanda Polyxene of Hesse was born at…
The Bourbon-Parma Family Welcomes a Baby Boy! Prince Joseph and Princess Anna Louise of Bourbon-Parma on their wedding day. On 21 January 2021, Joseph de Bourbon de Parme and his wife Anna Louise welcomed the birth of their first child, a son named Arthur. Prince Philippe and Princess Annette of Bourbon-Parma with…
Hereditary Prince Ferdinand of Leiningen and Hereditary Princess Viktoria Luise of Leiningen (née Preußen) have announced that they are expecting their first child, who is due in February 2020. Both descendants of Queen Victoria, Ferdinand of Leiningen and Viktoria Luise von Preußen were married in 2017. Ferdinand (b.1982) is the eldest child and son of…
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Aimone and Irene. On 1 July 1939 at Florence, Prince Aimone of Savoy, Duke of Spoleto, married Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark. The groom was thirty-nine years-old; the bride was thirty-four. Their wedding took place at the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. Among the guests were King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy and…
India Oxenberg and Patrick D’Ignazio Wonderful news from a descendant of the Serbian royal family! India Oxenberg (b.1991) has recently become engaged to Patrick D’Ignazio, a chef at the Double Zero restaurant in New York City. India is the daughter of Catherine Oxenberg (b.1961) and William Weitz Shaffer (b.1946); she is the granddaughter of Princess…
On Friday, 26 March, (Today!) Archduke Eduard of Austria (aka Eduard Habsburg), the Hungarian Ambassador to the Vatican, will be giving a talk via YouTube on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the return of the Blessed Karl, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, to the Kingdom of Hungary. On his Twitter, Archduke Eduard posted this message:…