A Hohenzollern gathering at Burg Hohenzollern in 1961. Front row: Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Fürstin Margarete of Hohenzollern, Countess Augusta Victoria Douglas, and Princess Xenia of Prussia. On 29 August 1966, Countess Augusta Victoria Douglas (née Princess of Hohenzollern; former Queen of Portugal) died at Eigeltingen, Baden-Württemberg. She was seventy-six years-old. Princess Maria Teresa…
Lois Evans Olson Radziwill. Over the centuries, many American women have married into European royal and noble families. One of the most unknown is Princess Lois Radziwill. Everyone knows of Caroline Lee Bouvier, who married Prince Stanislaw Radziwill in 1959. Understandably, very few are aware of Lois, who married Stanislaw’s first cousin once removed in…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Vera Arrivabene (@veraarrivabene) Yesterday, Vera dei Conti Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga and Nobile Briano Martinoni Caleppio announced their engagement. Vera is a granddaughter of Prince Amedeo, Duke of Savoy, Duke of Aosta, and his first wife, Princess Claude d’Orléans. Vera’s ancestry includes European royalty, European and Italian nobility,…
The death notice of Countess Beatrix. Placed in Mittelbayerische Zeitung. On 30 September, Countess Beatrix of Schönburg-Glauchau died at hospital in Regensburg. She was ninety-one years-old. The passing of the countess was announced by her daughter Fürstin Gloria of Thurn and Taxis. Count Bálint Széchényi and Princess Maria Pavlovna Galitzine Beatrix’s mum: Princess Maria Pavlovna Galitzine On 30 January 1930, Countess Beatrix…
Archduke Maximilian and Archduchess Franziska of Austria Photograph © Alamy/Daniel Seidel Archduke Maximilan of Austria and Princess Franziska zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst On 6 December 1918, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Max Franz Otto Konrad Maria Joseph Ignatius Nikolaus of Austria was born at Vienna as the first child and eldest son of Archduke Maximilian of Austria (1895-1952) and Archduchess Franziska…
Death notice from Augsburger Allgemeine. Princess Christine zu Schaumburg-Lippe, Freifrau von Süsskind-Schwendi, died on 3 December 2021. She was eighty-five. Christine’s father Prince Friedrich Christian. Born on 16 October 1936 at Berlin, Princess Christine Marie-Luise Auguste Friederike zu Schaumburg-Lippe was the third child and second daughter of Prince Friedrich Christian zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1906-1983) and his first…
Embed from Getty Images In the 1980s, Prince Edouard and Princess Françoise Lobkowicz twice suffered the loss that no parent ever wants to experience. They had to bury two of four children within a four year span. Violence and illness claimed the lives of their first and second sons. Edouard(1960-1984) On 18 October 1960,…
Karin Vogel in 2011. Photograph (c) Schweriner Volkszeitung. Since her birth on 4 February 1973, Karin Vogel has held a unique distinction: she is the last person in the line of succession to the British throne. In April 2011, ahead of the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, there were articles in BBC America, NPR,…
Luis Alfonso de Borbón Martínez Bordiú and his father-in-law Victor Vargas Irausquin have in the past several weeks been caught up in an increasingly damaging scandal relating to the Vargas family’s financial dealings. Specifically, the Venezuelan Banco Occidental de Descuento, of which Victor Vargas is the president, has seen its Panamanian branch, the AllBank Corp,…
To their new homes off they go! After a delivery delay that nearly drove us crazy, the bulk of the printed copies of The Grand Ducal House of Hesse were delivered yesterday at 630pm,! Immediately, we got to work unloading the massive pallets containing 3000lbs worth of books! Once the truck was unloaded, Arturo Beéche…