Princess Diana of Bourbon-Parma and Prince Franz Joseph of Hohenzollern Note: Thank you to Alexander Oehmichen, the elder son of the princess, for contacting us to correct the date and place of his mother’s passing, as well as to correct the misinformation that was contained at the linked article concerning her cause of death, which…
Princess Charlotte of Monaco weds Count Pierre de Polignac On 2 February 1920 in Paris, the engagement was announced between Count Pierre de Polignac and Princess Charlotte of Monaco, Duchess of Valentinois. This union between the French nobleman and the Monegasque royal was destined to secure the future of the Grimaldi dynasty. Embed from Getty Images…
Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’AyV_H7odT295ZjrmK85ZvQ’,sig:’vvSORd7mx5seXKjH_PwXVvcZMEaoieQ_EpgfsnIWtJo=’,w:’594px’,h:’591px’,items:’540952954′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); Folks, despite the opportune timing, this is not an April Fools’ joke! From ITV: “Last weekend, Fergie [Sarah Ferguson] joined her former husband after he completed a number of official royal visits overseas. The couple stayed in Bahrain on a private visit but they were official…
The twin French princelings. Today, Prince Michel d’Orléans, Count of Évreux, and Prince Jacques d’Orléans, Duke of Orléans, celebrate their eightieth birthdays! On 25 June 1941, Prince Michel Joseph Benoît Marie d’Orléans and Prince Jacques Jean Jaroslav Marie d’Orléans were born at Rabat, Morocco. The twin boys were the seventh and eighth children of Prince…
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of RussiaPhotograph (c) Russian Imperial House Today Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, Head of the Imperial House of Russia, issued a public statement to the Russian people about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A Statement from the Head of the Imperial House of Russia H.I.H. The Grand Duchess Maria of Russia…
The newlyweds. Photo (c) Alain BENAINOUS/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. Today, Princess Kalina of Bulgaria and Antonio José “Kitin” Muñoz y Valcárcel celebrate twenty years of marriage! The princess and her parents. Photo (c) Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images. On 25 October 2002, a reception was hosted by King Simeon II and Queen Margarita at…
Today, HM King Albert II issued a communiqué on the topic of the meeting between two of his children, HM The King of the Belgians and HRH Princess Delphine of Belgium. Last Friday, brother and sister met at Laeken Castle and connected over the course of a three-hour lunch. More meetings are planned in the…
This is certain to be exciting news for royal watchers and historians! In July 2022, the memoirs of the Duke of Kent will be published by Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd. Entitled A Royal Life, the tome was compiled based on conversations between the duke and royal historian Hugo Vickers. The book will be slightly over…
Sad news this Saturday report the unexpected passing of Hubertus Stephan, the husband of Princess Tatiana zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Apparently, Mr. Stephan had an accident while off-roading in the Austrian Alps near Kitzbühel. His two sons, Carl and Wolf, had been in the car with him until moments before the vehicle overturned and rolled down a…
The marriage of Duke Carl of Württemberg and Princess Diane d’Orléans Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’fSIVa5MWTd1oWv2UlAL0UA’,sig:’wwyV5WamFupoIgsE0UmUgCt0onbyJMWB3plnLlha8ns=’,w:’594px’,h:’426px’,items:’843305568′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); Today, 21 July, Duke Carl and Duchess Diane of Württemberg celebrate their Diamond wedding anniversary. The couple were religiously married sixty years ago at Altshausen. Their civil wedding had been held three days prior on 18…