European Royal History

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…

Photograph courtesy of the Russian Imperial Chancellery.   Photograph courtesy of the Russian Imperial Chancellery.   Photograph courtesy of the Russian Imperial Chancellery. Today, 20 January 2021, the Chancellery of the Imperial House of Russia announced the engagement of HIH Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and Nob. Rebecca Virginia Bettarini.       The statement reads…

Princess Marie of Romania in Bucharest on 21 March 2019. Photo (c) CRISTIAN NISTOR / AGERPRES Princess Marie of Romania appears to be taking a step back from her role as a public representative of the royal house. Marie is the youngest of the five daughters of the late King Michael and Queen Anne of Romania….

Yesterday the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg hosted their cousins the King and Queen of the Belgians for a gala dinner at the grand ducal palace in Luxembourg City. The dinner was also attended by the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg. All photographs are copyright of the Grand Ducal Court/Sophie Margue….

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Friedrich of Württemberg with his Porsche 356 On 9 May 2018, aged fifty-six, Duke Friedrich of Württemberg was killed as the result of a motor vehicle accident at Ebenweiler. He was trying to pass a tractor trailer in his lane, and in this attempt he hit head-on a car in the opposite lane of traffic. Friedrich,…

Recently, HSH Fürstin Hildegard zu Stolberg-Roßla passed away at the age of ninety-seven in the MathildenHospital at Büdingen. The princess had been admitted to hospital due to a broken bone. Due to her fragile state of health, the Fürstin zu Stolberg-Roßla was not able to recover. Mayor Ulrike Pfeiffer-Pantring of Ortenberg once said of the late…