In June 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Parma were photographed with their three children on the beach of Scheveningen by Jeroen van der Meyde. Prince Carlos and Princess Annemarie, who celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary this year, are shown with their daughters, Princess Luisa and Princess Cecilia, and their son, Prince Carlos. The…
Harry Wentworth-Stanley and Cressida Bonas At the weekend, Harry Wentworth-Stanley and Cressida Bonas celebrated their marriage. The couple’s engagement took place in August 2019. Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images Harry David Wentworth-Stanley (b.1989) is the son of Nicholas Philip Wentworth-Stanley (b.1954) and Clare Husted…
Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images On 25 June 1969, Marie-Liesse Claude Anne Rolande de Rohan-Chabot was born at Paris as the first child of Count Louis-Mériadec de Rohan-Chabot (b.1937) and his wife Princess Isabelle Marie Laurence Mathilde de Bauffremont-Courtenay (b.1944). Louis and Isabelle had married in 1968. Marie-Liesse was joined by five siblings: Thibault (b.1970), Eléonore…
Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’mZaKatCISkV2VaiM9AKwZQ’,sig:’hxY4UCkY3m7kGj5XjX3gPmdWgbjeA1_ckLlz2cxdmPo=’,w:’395px’,h:’594px’,items:’518519188′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); Thirty-seven years ago today, on the morning of 9 July 1982, thirty-three year-old Michael Fagan (a depressed father of three whose marriage was falling apart) scaled the fourteen foot walls of Buckingham Palace and shimmied up a drainpipe: he then entered the palace through a window…
Last week, several members of different branches of the Georgian royal family issued a letter of protest against their cousin Prince David Bagration-Mukhransky. The letter reads as follows: An Official Letter of Protest The Bagrationi Family Association is an international organisation uniting the majority of Bagrationi descendants. In 2006, a Memorandum was officially…
Prince Alexis of Hesse with his dog Paul Photograph (c) Werra Rundschau At the link, feel free to view a delightful piece by DW News on Prince Alexis and Landgrave of Hesse (of the Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld line) and his family’s home of Schloss Augustenau. Prince Alexis, who studied art history, has managed Schloss Augustenau and its…
HI&RH Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia with HM The late Queen. In a letter of condolence to the British King Charles III, the head of the House of Hohenzollern, Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, expressed his family’s deep sadness at the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The thoughts and prayers of the members of the…
The princess in 2018. Today, Princess Ingrid of Waldeck and Pyrmont celebrates her ninetieth birthday! Born on 2 September 1931 at Munich, Ingrid was the third child and daughter of Fürst Josias of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1896-1967) and Duchess Altburg of Oldenburg (1903-2001), who wed in 1922. The princess had four siblings: Princess Margarethe (1923-2003),…
Xenia Trotzky and Count Frederic von Brandenstein-Zeppelin celebrated their religious marriage on 30 July 2022 at Gröbming. The couple were civilly married on 11 June at Schluechtern. Born on 23 February 1993, Xenia Trotzky is the daughter of Sergei Sergejewitsch Trotzky (b.1948) and Princess Felicitas of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b.1958), who wed in 1987. Xenia is…
Dr. Mary Houck Photograph (c) The Blade Over many decades and until the present day, Dr. Mary E. Houck of Ohio has carved out a special and unique role as an American historian with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the imperial, royal, and noble houses of Europe – as well as those of every other continent!…