Fürst Wittekind of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Today, Fürst Wittekind zu Waldeck und Pyrmont celebrates his eighty-fifth birthday. Hereditary Prince Josias zu Waldeck und Pyrmont and Duchess Altburg of Oldenburg. Prince Wittekind Adolf Heinrich Georg-Wilhelm zu Waldeck und Pyrmont was born on 9 March 1936 at Arolsen. The prince was the only son and fourth of…
Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Queen of Spain, Duchess of Aosta. A Musy tiara formerly owned by Princess Maria Vittoria del Pozzo, Duchess of Aosta and Queen of Spain from 1870 until 1873, will go on the auction block at Sotheby’s in Geneva on 11 May. The tiara is estimated to sell for anywhere between $1 million…
Henri and Micaëla Today, HRH Princess Micaëla d’Orléans, Dowager Countess of Paris, marks her eighty-first birthday. The Dowager Countess of Paris was born doña Micaëla Ana María Cousiño y Quiñones de León on 30 April 1938 at Vichy, France. Her parents were Luis Maximiliano Cousiño y Sébire (1895-1970) and his wife doña Antonia Quiñones de Léon y…
The Brazilian imperial sarcophagi (from left to right): Princess Imperial Isabel, Emperor Pedro II, Empress Teresa Cristina and Prince Gaston at the Catedral de São Pedro de Alcântara. Photo (c) Seth B. Leonard. One hundred years ago, on 14 November 1921, Princess Imperial Isabel of Brazil, Countess d’Eu, died at the Chateau d’Eu in France at the age of…
Philippine de Ganay in Venice, 2006.Photo (c) Getty Images / Bertrand Rindoff Petroff. Earlier this month, Philippine, Marquise de Ganay, died at the age of ninety-seven. Born on 4 September 1925 at Paris, Philippine Louise Charlotte Marie de Noailles was the second child and first daughter of Henry de Noailles, Duc de Mouchy,…
Princess Isabelle and Prince Philipp on their wedding day, 1971. Photo (c) Rue des Archives / GRANGER. On 11 September 1971, Prince Philipp of Liechtenstein and Isabelle de l’Arbre de Malander were married in the Abbaye Notre Dame de la Cambre in Brussels. Prince Philipp was the second son of Prince Franz Joseph II of…
Hello Subscribers and Eurohistory readers, Its has been some time since I last posted anything on the blog! All subscribers are getting a personal letter from me inside Issue CXVII, which we begin mailing on March 21! The magazine is being picked up at our old printer in Berkeley tomorrow afternoon. I have some advance…
Victoria Marchioness of Milford Haven (1863-1950) Surrounded by her children, Victoria Milford Haven passed away at her apartment in Kensington Palace on September 24, 1950! From the New York Times Obituary… The autobiography of the former Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863-1950), who in 1884 married her cousin Prince Louise…
Prince Andreas and Princess Carin of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Photograph (c) Eurohistory.com. Today, Prince Andreas and Princess Carin of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha mark their Golden Wedding anniversary.
During the evening of 26 September/27 September, Prince Ferfried of Hohenzollern died at Großhadern Clinic in Munich. He was seventy-nine years-old. The late prince was an uncle of Fürst Karl Friedrich of Hohenzollern. Prince Ferfried with his parents.Photo (c) Seeger-Presse. Born on 14 April 1943 at Schloß Umkirch, Prince Ferfried Maximilian Pius Meinrad Maria…