Prince Charles Napoléon and his son Prince Jean-Christophe Napoléon Photo (c) PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA / AFP The Prince Napoléon and his fiancée Countess Olympia Arco-Zinneberg were in Ajaccio two weeks ago for the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Emperor Napoléon I of the French. Prince Jean-Christophe was also joined by his father, Prince…
6300 Kensington Avenue East Richmond Heights, CA 94805 USA Email: [email protected] or [email protected] Phone: 510.236.1730 Dear Subscribers, This afternoon we concluded mailing all copies of Issues CXVII and CXVIII to our subscribers in the United States. Copies of the magazines will begin mailing on Monday to Canada, Latin America, Europe, and the Rest of the World. Issue CXIX will…
H.R.H. Prince Antonio of Bourbon-Two Sicilies died at Zurich, Switzerland, on Monday, 11 November, at the age of ninety. His eldest son, Francesco, was at his father’s side when Antonio passed away. Prince Gabriele of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, father of Prince Antonio Prince Antoine (Antonio) Marie Joseph Alphonse Adam of Bourbon-Two Sicilies was born at Cannes…
A Gotha Quiz: Who Are We? By Darren Shelton, for the European Royal History Journal. “Before we married, I loved my future wife from afar. She, however, loved another. I approached the apple of her eye and told him my plight. He spoke to her and set her straight and opened the path for me to…
Today, fifty years have passed since the death of King Peter II of Yugoslavia on 3 November 1970. The office of Crown Prince Alexander II of Serbia, the king’s only child, issued the following communiqué on 2 November 2020: A memorial service for His Majesty King Peter II (son of the great unifier His Majesty…
Hereditary Prince Ferdinand of Leiningen and Hereditary Princess Viktoria Luise of Leiningen (née Preußen) have announced that they are expecting their first child, who is due in February 2020. Both descendants of Queen Victoria, Ferdinand of Leiningen and Viktoria Luise von Preußen were married in 2017. Ferdinand (b.1982) is the eldest child and son of…
Prince Luiz upon leaving hospital. Yesterday, 6 November, Prince Luiz of Brazil was discharged from the Santa Catarina Hospital in São Paolo after a hospitalisation of several days. He had been dealing with bronchitis, which was successfully treated with antibiotics. The prince is eighty-two years-old. On Saturday, 31 October, the secretariat of the Imperial House…
The Shadow of Delphine. This afternoon, 10 September, the last hearing took place in the paternity case between HM King Albert II of the Belgians and his daughter Delphine Boël. The Brussels Court of Appeals will deliver its decision by the end of October. After the hearing, Delphine Boël’s lawyer Marc Uyttendaele stated: “She wants…
Photograph (c) EPA-EFE. On Wednesday evening, a group of about 500 people turned up to demonstrate outside the police station on rue de Brabant in Brussels. The group were demanding answers from authorities in regards to the death in police custody on Monday of Ibrahima Barrie, who was only twenty-three years-old. According to royal reporter Wim…
A decade ago, on 13 May 2011, Princess Maria of Bavaria, Princess Mother of Brazil, died at her home in Rio de Janeiro. She was ninety-six years-old. The princess passed away on the 123rd anniversary of the 1888 signing of the Lei Áurea (Golden Law) by Princess Imperial Isabel of Brazil, the grandmother of Princess…