Two weeks ago today on 6 October, HSH Prince Alexander Georgievich Romanoff was christened at the Transfiguration Church within the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour complex in Moscow. Prince Alexander is the first child of HIH Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and HSH Princess Victoria Romanovna Romanoff. Madame Oxana Girko, one of the godmothers…
Prince Emmanuel de Croÿ-Collalto and Olimpia Franzan are to marry in July 2022. The Croÿ-Collato family in 2016. Born in 1990 at Uccle, Belgium, Prince Emanuel Manfredo Juste de Croÿ was the first child and only son of Prince Guillaume de Croÿ (b.1950) and Countess Isabella von Collalto und San Salvatore (b.1960), who married in…
Franz Josef Altenburg, 2019. Photo (c) Hollengut. Aged eighty, Prince Franz Josef von Altenburg died on 18 August 2021. Born on 15 March 1941, Prince Franz Josef Georg Clemens Maria Leopold Salvator von Altenburg was the seventh child of Archduke Clemens Salvator of Austria (1904-1974) and Countess Elisabeth Rességuier de Miremont (1906-2000). In 1969, Franz Josef married…
Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’NyqkTR_yRchEu9tiKZET4A’,sig:’oZp1EBPGndCx8K-cCtqGcO4-LWSTiL-ouh5Apgkbq0Q=’,w:’479px’,h:’594px’,items:’158077902′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); Today Queen Anne-Marie of Greece celebrates her seventieth-third birthday. Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’0XFLNyGmSpNd6ckE_VxzUg’,sig:’rswvUhO_f0qCBNKRSF_Bojqm12hT7WyKtpas3gO6-jk=’,w:’433px’,h:’594px’,items:’949971182′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); Princess Anne-Marie Dagmar Ingrid of Denmark was born on 30 August 1946 at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen as the third and last daughter of the then Crown Prince…
Emperor Bao Dai and his wife Princess Vĩnh Thụy in 1992. Photo (c) Raymond Reuter/Sygma/Corbis. French journalist and royal researcher Frederic de Natal has reported the recent death of Empress Tây Phuong of Vietnam, the widow of Emperor Bаo Đai. The empress reportedly passed away on the night of 27/28 September at Paris. She was seventy-five…
Henri & Marie-Thérèse. The Royal Chapel of Dreux. The invitation to the royal wedding. Sixty-five years ago today, Prince Henri d’Orléans, Count of Clermont, and Duchess Marie-Thérèse of Württemberg were married at Dreux. The first photo of Henri: the prince is held by his mother, the Countess of Paris, while his older sister Princess Isabelle plants…
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…
Today, HSH Prince Volkwin zu Waldeck und Pyrmont celebrates his eightieth birthday. Princess Helene and her brother Prince Georg Wilhelm zu Waldeck und Pyrmont Prince Volkwin Georg Ludwig zu Waldeck und Pyrmont was born at Braunschweig on 20 September 1940. The prince was the fourth child and third son of Prince Georg Wilhelm zu Waldeck…
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex on Christmas Day 2017 TRH The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have today (Monday, 6 May) welcomed the birth of their first child, a boy: he arrived at 5:26AM BST. Simultaneously, HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh welcomed their eighth great-grandchild. The newest royal baby is…
Embed from Getty Images Aged eighty-eight, Fürst Ferdinand von Bismarck has passed away following complications experienced during a surgery. Ferdinand was the great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck, former German Chancellor. The late fürst is survived by his wife, Fürstin Elisabeth (b.1939; née Lippens), and by three children: the new Fürst Carl-Eduard (b.1961), Count Gregor (b.1964),…