The Duke of Harar in front of a picture of his late father. The Duke of Harar died on 10 November 2021 in the United States. He is survived by his wife, the now Dowager Duchess of Harar (née Connie Jo Quave). The duke was a grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. A communiqué…
On Thursday, 10 December, the establishment of the Fonds Prinses Delphine van Saksen-Coburg was unveiled at University Hospital Ghent. The fund will seek to promote the integration of the arts into healthcare. Princess Delphine of Belgium is the honorary chairman of the charity. The princess will endeavour to help raise awareness of the fund’s…
Prince Jean-Christophe Napoléon and Countess Olympia of Arco-Zinneberg recently gave an interview to journalist Vincent Meylan of Point de Vue. The article is accompanied by several lovely photos of the happy couple which were taken by Julie Piatti. Prince Félix of Luxembourg in 2006 at the wedding of his brother Louis We learn that the…
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…
Antoine de Castellane. French aristocrat and artist Comte and Marquis Antoine de Castellane died on 3 February 2021. He was eighty-six years-old. Antoine’s father: Count Henri de Castellane. Antoine’s mother: Doña Silvia Rodríguez de Rivas. Born on 8 October 1934 at Paris, Antoine was the second child and eldest son of Count Henri de Castellane (1903-1937) and his wife…
Prince Jaime of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and Lady Charlotte Lindesay-Bethune Prince Jaime of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Noto, and Lady Charlotte Diana Lindesay-Bethune will marry in Palermo in September 2021. Their union will take place ninety years after the 1931 nuptials of the Count and Countess of Paris, the groom’s great-grandparents, and in the same location….
Queen Anne looking after King Michael Picture taken at the Elisabeta Palace in Bucharest Today marks three years since the death of Queen Anne of Romania. After many years of declining health, the Queen died Monday, 1 August 2016, in hospital at Morges, Switzerland, at the age of ninety-two. Himself suffering from cancer, her ninety-four-year…
† Princess Marie-Thérèse of Bourbon-Parma (28 July 1933 – 26 March 2020) Prince Xavier and Princess Madeleine of Bourbon-Parma with their six children. HRH Princess Marie-Thérèse Cécile Zita Charlotte of Bourbon-Parma was born in Paris on 28 July 1933 as the third child and second daughter of Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma (1889-1977) and Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset…
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…
A portrait of George, Marquess of Milford Haven. The painter and copywriter holder is Gillian Erskine-Hill. Today, the Marquis of Milford Haven celebrates his sixtieth birthday! The wedding of David, Marquis of Milford Haven, and Janet Bryce. Born on 6 June 1961 at London, George Ivar Louis Mountbatten was the eldest son of David Mountbatten,…