tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18036164687868163312024-03-05T18:35:21.104-08:00pereu laria 1223Firesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11343333597814077480noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1803616468786816331.post-81103683116493156272023-12-14T12:05:00.000-08:002023-12-14T12:05:46.526-08:00Archduchess Margherita of Austria-Este, Princess of Savoy-Aosta (1930-2022)<div>+ </div>
<div>Archduchess Margherita of Austria-Este,</div>
<div>née Princess of Savoy-Aosta</div>
<div>(7 April 1930-10 January 2022)</div>
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<p><br>Today, HI&RH Archduchess Margherita of Austria-Este, Princess of Savoy-Aosta, died at the age of ninety-one years-old. The archduchess died in Basel, Switzerland; this being the town where she and her husband had lived in their later years. <br><br></p>
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<p><br>On 7 April 1930, Princess Margherita Isabella Maria Vittoria Emanuella Elena Gennara of Savoy was born at Capodimonte. The princess was the first child of Prince Amedeo of Savoy (1898-1942), at the time Duke of Apulia and later Duke of Aosta, and Princess Anne d'Orléans (1906-1986), who married in 1927. Present at Margherita's birth were her maternal grandmother Princess Isabelle d'Orléans, Duchess of Guise, and her great-aunt Queen Amélie of Portugal. The infant Margherita was baptised at the Royal Palace of Capodimonte (Reggia di Capodimonte) on 28 May 1930; King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy was her godfather, her paternal grandmother Princess Hélène, Duchess of Aosta, served as Margherita's godmother. Several years later, Margherita was joined by sister Princess Maria Cristina in 1933.<br><br></p>
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<p><br>In March 1942, Margherita's father Amedeo died from tuberculosis at the age of forty-three. As a commander in the Italian army, the Duke of Aosta had become a prisoner-of-war when he was captured by the British armed forces on the African front. Anne d'Orléans was thus left a widow, who had to care for her two young daughters during the slow but imminent fall of the Kingdom of Italy. </p>
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<p><br>The engagement between Princess Margherita of Savoy-Aosta and Archduke Robert of Austria-Este (1915-1996) was announced in October 1953. The couple met in November 1952 at the wedding of Robert's brother, Archduke Felix, to Princess and Duchess Anna-Eugénie of Arenberg. Marchese Falcone Lucifero, the Head of the Royal Household of King Umberto II, issued the following communiqué to the press: "<em>King Umberto was happy to give his consent, and expressed his fervent good wishes for the engaged couple.</em>" Robert was one of the children of Emperor Karl of Austria and Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma. Robert and Margherita contracted a civil marriage on 28 December 1953 at Bourg-en-Bresse, France. </p>
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<div>On the following day, 29 December, Robert and Margherita's religious union took place at Brou, France. Standing six feet tall and wearing a diamond tiara, Margherita proved to be an imposing presence. The bridegroom was himself six feet three inches tall: they formed an impressive couple. Monsignor Marella, the Papal Nuncio to Paris, presided over the imperial and royal wedding. King Umberto II of Italy and Prince Filiberto of Savoy-Genoa, Duke of Pistoia, were the witnesses for Princess Margherita; Archduke Rudolph of Austria and Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma were the witnesses for Archduke Robert. Following their marriage, Archduke Robert and Archduchess Margherita departed Paris for a honeymoon in New York and Palm Beach.<br><br>
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<br>Archduke Robert and Archduchess Margherita settled in Paris. Robert worked in the banking industry. The couple had five children: Archduchess Maria Beatrix (b.1954), Archduke Lorenz (b.1955), Archduke Gerhard (b.1957), Archduke Martin (b.1959), and Archduchess Isabella (b.1963).<br><br>
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<td class="tr-caption">Archduchess Margherita and Archduke Robert of Austria-Este in the 1990s.<br>Photograph (c) Presse-Foto-Seeger.</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">Archduchess Margherita of Austria-Este with her daughter Archduchess Isabella in November 1997.<br>Photograph (c) Presse-Foto-Seeger.</td>
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<br>Four of Margherita and Robert's sons and daughters married into royal and aristocratic circles. In 1980, Archduchess Maria Beatrix wed Count Riprand von Arco-Zinneberg. In 1984, Archduke Lorenz married Princess Astrid of Belgium. In 1997, Archduchess Isabelle wed Count Andrea Czarnocki-Lucheschi. In 2004, Archduke Martin married Princess Katharina zu Isenburg. Only one son, Archduke Gerhard, contracted an "unequal" union; this took place in 2015 when Gerhard wed Iris Jandrasits. Archduke Robert and Archduchess Margherita of Austria had nineteen grandchildren.<br><br>
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On 7 February 1996, Archduke Robert passed away at Basel, Switzerland, one day shy of his eighty-first birthday. He was buried at Kloster Muri in the Swiss countryside. His widow Margherita survived him by over twenty-five years.
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<div><strong><em>May Margherita Rest In Peace.</em></strong></div>
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<p><br>Following his hospitalisation yesterday, the Danish royal court has issued a statement regarding thee health of Prince Joachim of Denmark:</p>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>His Royal Highness Prince Joachim was late last night admitted to Toulouse University Hospital in France. Immediately thereafter, the Prince underwent surgery for a blood clot in the brain. The operation was successful, and His Royal Highness’ condition is stable.</em> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>The Royal House has no further information at this point in time, but it is the wish of Her Majesty The Queen that the public respects the privacy of the family during the hospitalization. Her Royal Highness Princess Marie is with her husband.</em></blockquote>
<div>Joachim is fifty-one years-old. He is the second son of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and her late husband Prince Henrik. From his first marriage to Alexandra Manley, Joachim has two sons: Prince Nikolai (b.1999) and Prince Felix (b.2002). The prince and his second wife Princess Marie have two children: Prince Henrik (b.2009) and Princess Athena (b.2012). Earlier this week, Prince Joachim and his family celebrated the eighteenth birthday of Prince Felix. </div>
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<p>In <em>The Telegraph</em> of Monday, 27 July 2020, the engagement was announced between Frederick "Fritzi" von Preussen and Mathilda "Tilly" Johnson. The couple have been dating for several years. Fritzi von Preussen is a second cousin of Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia, Head of the Royal House.<br><br></p>
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<div>Prince Frederick Nicholas Stormont von Preussen was born at London on 11 June 1990. He is the son of Prince Frederick Nicholas von Preussen (b.1946) and his wife Victoria (b.1952; née Mancroft). Fritzi's paternal grandparents are Prince Friedrich of Prussia (1911-1966) and Lady Brigid Guinness (1920-1995). Fritzi's maternal grandparents are Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft (1914-1987), and Diana Lloyd.<br><br>Mathilda Noel Johnson was born in 1989. She is the daughter of Mr Rupert Johnson and his wife Simonetta (née Barber).<br><br>Prince Frederick is a great-great grandson of German Emperor Wilhelm II (1859-1941). He is a great-great-great-great grandson of Queen Victoria.<br><br>A special thank you to <a href="https://twitter.com/migrhodes">Michael Rhodes</a> of the <a href="https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2020/07/engagement-of-prince-frederick-von.html?amp=1">Peerage News Blog</a> for providing the details of the engagement!</div>
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<p>At the weekend, Harry Wentworth-Stanley and Cressida Bonas celebrated their marriage. The couple's engagement took place in August 2019.</p>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title">Last week, on 22 July 2020, Count Josef Hubertus von Neippurg celebrated his 102nd birthday.<br><br></h3>
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<td class="tr-caption">Countess Anna von Neipperg, born Countess von Silva-Tarouca</td>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title">Count Maria <em>Josef Hubertus</em> Ernst Amadeus Vincenz Benediktus Antonius Konrad Apolinarius von Neipperg was born in 22 July 1918 at Schwaigern in the soon-to-be-gone Kingdom of Württemberg. His parents were Count Anton Ernst von Neipperg (1883-1947) and Countess Anna von Silva-Tarouca (1888-1971). Anton Ernst served in the Prussian Army during First World War. He was chairman of the Association of Catholic Noblemen in Southwest Germany. A member of the German Central Party, Anton Ernst von Neipperg was a deputy in the last state parliament of the Free People's State of Württemberg.<br><br></h3>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title">In the 1950s, Count Josef Hubertus von Neipperg married Countess <em>Marie</em> Franziska Rudolfine Eleonore von Ledebur-Wicheln (1920-1984), a daughter of Count Eugen von Ledebur-Wicheln (1873-1945) and Countess Eleonore Larisch von Moennich (1888-1975). Marie's eldest sister Countess Henriette von Ledebur-Wicheln married Count Ferdinand Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau; the couple had seven children, and one of their daughters, Countess Marie Agläe, married Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein. Marie's next eldest sister Countess Karoline von Ledebur-Wicheln married Prince Johannes of Liechtenstein; the couple had four children: Princess Maya, Prince Eugen (married Countess Maria Theresia von Goëss), Prince Albrecht (married Tamara Nyman), and Princess Barbara (married Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia).<br><br></h3>
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title">Josef Hubertus von Neipperg and Marie von Ledebur-Wicheln had eight children: Count Karl (b.1951; married Archduchess Andrea of Austria), Count Reinhard (b.1953), Countess Maria Anna (b.1955), Countess Franziska (b.1956), Count Stephan (b.1957), Count Christoph (b.1958), Countess Barbara (b.1960), and Count Johannes Alfred (b.1964).<br><br></h3>
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<div>In 1986, Count Josef Hubertus von Neipperg married Princess <em>Therese</em> Maria Gabriele Carola Hilda zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (b.1938), a daughter of Fürst Friedrich Karl IV zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1908-1982) and Fürstin Mechtilde von Urach, Gräfin von Württemberg (1912-2001). Therese's maternal grandparents are Duke Wilhelm II von Urach, Graf von Württemberg (1864-1928) and Duchess Amalia in Bavaria (1865-1912). Her maternal great-grandparents are Duke Wilhelm I von Urach, Graf von Württemberg (1810-1869) and Princess Florentine of Monaco (1833-1897). </div>
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<div>From his eight children, Count Josef Hubertus von Neipperg currently has twenty-four grandchildren, who were born between 1978 and 2017. The count currently has eighteen great-grandchildren.</div>
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<p><br>On 6 July 2020, Count Johannes von Mirbach-Geldern-Egmont, Prince zu Hohenlohe-Jagstberg, died as a result of contracting COVID-19. Johannes was eighty-one years-old.<br><br></p>
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<p>Prince Johannes Maria Carl Alfons Friedrich Leopold zu Hohenlohe-Jagstberg was born at Haltenbergstetten on 2 December 1939. Johannes was the second child and son of Fürst Albrecht zu Hohenlohe-Jagstberg (1906-1996) and Countess Therese von Geldern-Egmont (1911-2000), who married in 1936. The paternal grandparents of Johannes were Fürst Johannes zu Hohenlohe-Bartenstein (1863-1921) and Archduchess Anna of Austria (1879-1961).<br><br></p>
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<p><br>The prince had two siblings: Fürst Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Jagstberg (b.1937; married (div.) Princess Michaela von Schönburg-Waldenburg) and Princess Eleonore (b.1940; married Baron Peter von Kap-herr). Johannes was adopted by his maternal uncle Count Ladislaus von Mirbach-Geldern-Egmont (1905-1982).<br><br></p>
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<td class="tr-caption">Prince Johannes zu Hohenlohe-Jagstberg, Count von Marbach-Geldern-Egmont at the wedding of Duchess Fleur of Württemberg in 2003.<br>Photograph (c) Seeger-Presse.</td>
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<p>On 22 December 1969 at Haltenbergstetten, Johannes married Andrea Vogel (b.18 October 1944). Andrea is the daughter of Karl Vogel and Ingeborg Schreiber. Johannes and Andrea had two children: Princess Isabella (b.1972) and Prince Lamoral (b.1973). In 2018, Princess Isabella married Burkhard Keese, the CFO of Lloyd's of London. In 2000, Prince Lamoral married Ruve Nevillia Watts (b.1968); the couple have four children: Princess Feodora (b.2002), Princess Franziska (b.2004), Princess Mercedes (b.2007), and Princess Henrietta (b.2009). Prince Lamoral and Princess Ruve live in New South Wales, Australia, with their children. Lamoral is the founder of Mirbach Financial Modelling.</p>
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<div>The funeral for Count Johannes von Mirbach-Geldern-Egmont, Prince zu Hohenlohe-Jagstberg was held privately in July. A memorial service will take place in 2021. Following are photos from the funeral.</div>
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<div><strong><em>May Johannes Rest in Peace.</em></strong></div>
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<p>On 8 August 2020, Princess Sofia zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (b.1986) and Archia Akhavan-Kharazian (b.1990) were married at the Filialkirche Sankt Lorenz near Mondsee in the Salzkammergut, Austria. The Dean of Frankfurt, Johannes zu Eltz, a first cousin once removed of the bride, officiated over the religious ceremony. The bride wore the Sayn family bridal veil and tiara.</p>
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<div>Sofia is the sixth child and third daughter of Fürst Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn and Countess Gabriela von Schönborn-Wiesentheid. Sophie's 100 year-old grandmother Fürstin Marianne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (b.1919; née Baroness Mayr von Melnhof) was one of the guests at the wedding. Archia is the son of Asghar Akhavan-Kharazian and Eva Jimenez Ontanaya. Sofia and Archia's engagement was announced in March 2020.</div>
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<p>Before their religious wedding, Archia and Sofia contracted their civil marriage at the Rathaus St. Gilgen. The couple will take their honeymoon whenever conditions permit. The groom is an entrepreneur in London.</p>
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Prince Eudes of Orléans and Bragança passed away today, 13 August 2020, in Rio de Janeiro. He was eighty-one years-old. The prince had suffered from ill health for some time; the case of death was renal failure.
The Secretariat of the Head of the Imperial House of Brazil has communicated the following message announcing the death of Prince Eudes of Orléans and Bragança:
<blockquote class="tr_bq"> On behalf of H.I.&R.H. Prince D. Luiz de Orleans e Bragança, the Secretariat of the Imperial House of Brazil fulfils the painful duty of reporting the death, today in the city of Rio de Janeiro at age 81, after long illness, of his brother Prince D. Eudes de Orleans e Bragança, one of the twelve children of D. Pedro Henrique and D. Maria de Orleans e Bragança and the father of Deputy D. Luiz Philippe de Orleans e Bragança. </blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> We all ask for prayers for the eternal rest of his soul. </blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> São Paulo, August 13, 2020</blockquote> <table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4SUyIG4eIOQBmBfnsjHLAx6eJhtljt_ptP3ZhePWDYT3vQCBn0bBxJk-6hVoR1kGHFU2xfhrf5OnMfCAI-Bu0QbmpSgs-kloCEqSx4O4fk6JjCNUAFz1Egrba1lJOmp7mjufNtiGOBk4/s1600/4df5da05ed51a015f7093253a002482d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="494" data-original-width="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4SUyIG4eIOQBmBfnsjHLAx6eJhtljt_ptP3ZhePWDYT3vQCBn0bBxJk-6hVoR1kGHFU2xfhrf5OnMfCAI-Bu0QbmpSgs-kloCEqSx4O4fk6JjCNUAFz1Egrba1lJOmp7mjufNtiGOBk4/s1600/4df5da05ed51a015f7093253a002482d.jpg" border="0"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wedding of Prince Pedro Henrique of Brazil and Princess Maria Elisabeth of Bavaria</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-gEhbpUJ9qjnUoAH_xxfVbhQ5aKYSN5Rsj0bBd9pgJZz7LSVzK5y6k-nC8-OigWqsUi_89MsL3HLQJdi1UBagYuSGEjSlZkMZD6xWK8FbqHxRvVo4mQFKWD9ZtSRIjNw-EIBCMkz9D2U/s1600/00e0436fd40e844b878fd7406c8d7858.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="846" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-gEhbpUJ9qjnUoAH_xxfVbhQ5aKYSN5Rsj0bBd9pgJZz7LSVzK5y6k-nC8-OigWqsUi_89MsL3HLQJdi1UBagYuSGEjSlZkMZD6xWK8FbqHxRvVo4mQFKWD9ZtSRIjNw-EIBCMkz9D2U/s640/00e0436fd40e844b878fd7406c8d7858.jpg" width="544" border="0" height="640"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pedro Henrique and Maria Elisabeth with their three eldest children: Luiz (b.1938), Eudes (1939-2020), and Bertrand (b.1941).</td></tr> </tbody></table> Prince Eudes Maria Ranieri Pedro José Miguel Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga of Orléans and Bragança was born on 8 June 1939 at Mandelieu. Eudes was the second son of Prince Pedro Henrique of Brazil (1909-1981) and Princess Maria Elisabeth of Bavaria (1914-2011), who married in 1937. Born during the exile of the Imperial Family, Prince Eudes was registered at the Consulate General of Brazil in Paris as a Brazilian citizen, fulfilling the mandate of the Empire Constitution, thus guaranteeing his rights to the Throne and the Crown of Brazil. His baptism was celebrated in the Chapel of Mas-Saint-Louis, the home of his paternal grandmother, the Dowager Princess Imperial Maria Pia of Brazil (born Princess of the Two Sicilies; 1878-1973). The godfather of Prince Eudes was his great-uncle, Prince Ranieri (1883-1973), Duke of Castro and Head of the Royal House of the Two Sicilies.
<table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQkKnO2msoJDMdmMc7idmHQxv2Y0FxvfaDxVYTXsWdaIHnYRQ5bc226z2kJfeUNi6pYwQMNkm5H2XC3xcfpSaXoH8Vr8ANkBnX1A5lyqna-ZiqEzq9po0Y1LB86naiTTpTT5R-BXhYo7M/s1600/EBNgKslWkAAlFra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img data-original-height="512" data-original-width="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQkKnO2msoJDMdmMc7idmHQxv2Y0FxvfaDxVYTXsWdaIHnYRQ5bc226z2kJfeUNi6pYwQMNkm5H2XC3xcfpSaXoH8Vr8ANkBnX1A5lyqna-ZiqEzq9po0Y1LB86naiTTpTT5R-BXhYo7M/s1600/EBNgKslWkAAlFra.jpg" border="0"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prince Eudes in his youth.</td></tr> </tbody></table> Fluent in Portuguese, French, German and English, Prince Eudes began his studies at the Colégio Santo Inácio, when his family was still living at Rio de Janeiro. After moving to the South, Eudes studied at the Cristo Rei College, run by German priests, and completed his secondary education in 1957. Following his father's advice, Prince Eudes entered the Naval School and the Submarine School, becoming one of the greatest Brazilian specialists in this type of vehicle. Eudes did postgraduate studies in Economics at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, and took specialisation courses at Cambridge University, in the United Kingdom.
<table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinF4vYwaYBSG_FL4vR7KVL4BfkjVYhFSXcy_jAdJX_lhVZdDQTPjddt9aQo5VcckwrDt6yOuztEH5AtYUlrH6iyDrchtQ5r0KmUZs3j5wKReVS29edYDtNwp-MZoXAbg-yDRRNTwDAz7w/s1600/IMG_0520.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="405" data-original-width="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinF4vYwaYBSG_FL4vR7KVL4BfkjVYhFSXcy_jAdJX_lhVZdDQTPjddt9aQo5VcckwrDt6yOuztEH5AtYUlrH6iyDrchtQ5r0KmUZs3j5wKReVS29edYDtNwp-MZoXAbg-yDRRNTwDAz7w/s1600/IMG_0520.jpg" border="0"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prince Eudes with his wife Mercedes</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div> In 1966, Prince Eudes renounced his dynastic rights in view of his engagement to a commoner. On 8 May 1967, the prince married Ana Maria de Cerqueira César e Moraes de Barros (b.1945) at São Paulo. Eudes and Ana Maria had two children: Prince Luíz Filipe (b.1969) and Princess Anna Luíza (b.1971). Eudes and Ana Maria divorced on 22 March 1976. Four days later, on 26 March 1976, Eudes married Mercedes Williamsens Neves da Rocha (b.1955) in a civil ceremony at Rio de Janeiro. The couple had four children: Eudes (b.1977), the twins Maria Antonia and Maria Francisca (b.1979), and Guy (b.1985).
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From T<i>he News and Observer</i> of Raleigh, NC, 19 April 1976.</td></tr> </tbody></table> During their honeymoon to Jamaica in April 1976, Eudes and Mercedes survived a harrowing airplane accident. The plane on which the couple were passengers crashed, and they remained missing for four days, much to the despair of family members. Fortunately, Prince Eudes, his wife Mercedes, and the pilot Ronald Fletcher all survived. The news of the couple's rescue was met with great joy.
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<p>Today, King Felipe VI of Spain, his wife Queen Letizia, and their daughters, Leonor and Sofía, attended a official mass held for the victims of the novel coronavirus at the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid. The Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo also attended the service.<br><br></p>
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<p>The global pandemic has led to 28,388 Spaniards losing their lives. Carlos Osoro Sierra, the Archbishop of Madrid, officiated during the mass.<br><br></p>
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<p>On 25 June, Georgina Perosch published her first novel in English - <em>Beauty Queen: An International Thriller</em>. The book had earlier appeared in Italian and Spanish editions. The following is a summary of the book's storyline:</p>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">When Miss Universe, Cecilia Mendoza is enrolled by the CIA to kill the President of her country, Venezuela, she is convinced that she must cooperate. But things are hardly how they seem and Cecilia will end up embroiled in a spiderweb of conspiracies where nothing can be taken as it seems. Will she be able to carry out her mission? And above all, can she resist the fascinating President? A spy story that will take you from Moscow, to New York, Monte Carlo, and to the white sanded beaches of the Caribbean islands. You will discover Venezuela, a beautiful although difficult country. A plot that will keep you wondering until the last page and that will carry you away to places where dreams live. Until you too discover that nothing is as it seems.</blockquote>
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<div>The Author Page on Amazon tells us more about the writer of <em>Beauty Queen</em>, Georgina Perosch:</div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">Rebecca Virginia Bettarini who writes under the pen name Georgina Perosch is an Italian writer of thrillers and novels. She received an international upbringing and lived in several countries including Iraq, Venezuela, Paris, Toronto, Brussels, Moscow and Luxembourg. She is fluent in several languages - Italian, Spanish, French and English - and she simultaneously writes her books in more than one language. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">She started writing to describe the peculiarities of the places she has lived in, as well as the situations she witnessed first hand. She likes to unveil what happens behind closed doors, that is why, although the characters in her novels are fictional, the situations, places as well as the characters reactions she describes, are realistic and well structured. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">She creates intricate plots full of twists and turns so that the reader will never know exactly what happens next. Her book endings are always highly surprising!</blockquote>
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<div>Rebecca Bettarini is, of course, the longtime partner of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia. A portion of the proceeds from the sales of <em>Beauty Queen</em> will go directly to the Russian Imperial Foundation, which "aims to work in partnership with the very best non-profit organisations in Russia and abroad, those providing the most effective and efficient assistance to the most needy and disadvantaged in all corners of the country." During the COVID-19 pandemic, the foundation has supported a children's hospice as well as food-banks in Russia in addition to a hospital in Italy. </div>
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<p><br>On 3 April 1900, Valerie Marie zu Schleswig-Holstein was born at Liptovský Mikuláš, Hungary, Austria-Hungary. She was the only child of Duke Albert of Schleswig-Holstein (1869-1931), and the only grandchild of Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846-1923), the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Valerie's father never disclosed the name of her mother; he only indicated to his sisters that she was a "lady of high birth."</p>
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<div>After her arrival, Valerie Marie was placed with Rubin Schwalb (1856-ca.1934) and Anna Rosenthal (ca.1878-?), who raised the baby as their own daughter. On 15 April 1931, before his death, Duke Albert wrote to Valerie admitting to her that he was her father. After she received her father's letter, Valerie changed her surname from Schwalb, the name of her adopted parents, to zu Schleswig-Holstein on 12 May 1931. </div>
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<div>On 28 June 1925, Valerie Marie married the lawyer Ernst Johann Wagner (1896-?) at Vienna. Ernst was the son of Johann Wagner and Josephine Nimecsek. Alas, the marriage ended in divorce on14 February 1938. Valerie and Ernst did not have children. Their union was annulled at Salzburg on 4 October 1940.</div>
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<div>A little a year after her divorce was finalised, Valerie married again. This time, she took a fellow noble for a husband. On 15 June 1939 at Berlin, Valerie Marie zu Schleswig-Holstein wed Prince Engelbert-Charles of Arenberg (1899-1974), 10th Duke von Arenberg, 16th Duc d’Aerschot. The couple celebrated their religious marriage at Münster on 9 October 1940. Due to her Jewish upbringing, Valerie was required to obtain a legal statement clarifying that she was of pure Aryan descent. </div>
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<div>Through her second marriage, Valerie zu Schleswig-Holstein became allied with a prestigious European noble family. Her parents-in-law were Prince Engelbert of Arenberg (1872-1949) and Princess Hedwige de Ligne (1877-1939). Valerie's brother-in-law Princess Erik Engelbert (1901-1992) became the 11th Duke of Arenberg after the death of Valerie's husband. Valerie's sister-in-law was Princess Lydia (1905-1977), who married Prince Filiberto of Savoy (1895-1990), Duke of Genoa. </div>
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<div>In April 1945, American troops took over the Arenberg's residence at Schloss Nordkirchen, known as the Westphalian Versailles. Valerie was not amused by the intrusion of the Allied troops. The titian-haired princess freely let her thoughts be known about the American forces' request that she and her husband (and their cousin the Duke of Croÿ) move out of their castle into a more modest fourteen room apartment. "<em>I am astonished. I thought that England would protect me. Now you ask me to live in a place without even a kitchen to prepare food. I am astonished.</em>" Valerie had more to say. "<em>I cannot stand this. I have had to live in a cellar all winter while you Americans bombed Germany. It has been simply terrible.</em>"</div>
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<div>If one reviews the few details truly known about her, it is fair to surmise that Valerie did not have an easy life. She had no relationship with her father and seemingly never knew her mother. Once she finally learned of her roots, she was already an adult, and this kind of information might have made life even more difficult for her to navigate. Although born an illegitimate child, she was undoubtedly a great-granddaughter of the great Queen Victoria. </div>
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<p><br>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.<br><br></p>
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<p><strong><br></strong>On 18 October 1960, Prince Marie <em>Edouard</em>-Xavier Ferdinand Auguste Gaspard Lobkowicz was born at Paris. He was the first child of Prince Edouard Lobkowicz and Princess Françoise of Bourbon-Parma. Edouard's parents had married civilly in 1959 and religiously in 1960.<br><br>After graduating from secondary school in France, Edouard Lobkowicz received a bachelor's degree in 1983 from the Jesuit-run University of San Francisco. The prince, a reserve lieutenant in the French Army, had fulfilled active service as a paratrooper. He was a Knight of Honor and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.</p>
<div><br>In early April 1984, Prince Edouard went missing in Paris, where he had been residing at the Avenue Morceau apartment of his parents. The French police found Edouard's car in mid-April outside the Gare de Lyon, a Paris rail station. The body of Prince Edouard Lodkowicz was found by the police on 27 April at Ivry in the River Seine. An autopsy of the body was conducted: it found that he had been shot in the throat with a shotgun and had a bullet in his left shoulder blade. His waist was tied to an iron slab, which weighed his body down in the waters of the Seine. The Lobkowicz family was not informed of the discovery of Edouard's body until 4 May. This delay was attributed to the fact that the authorities had been supplied with an inaccurate physical description of Edouard.<br><br>The prince was described by his friends as "refined." Edouard had returned to Paris from San Francisco only three months before his untimely death. The police first contemplated the possibility of suicide, but, upon discovering the gun wounds, realised that the prince had been the victim of a murder. No culprits were ever arrested.<br><br>Prince Edouard Lobkowicz was twenty-three years-old when he was killed. He was survived by his parents, Prince Edouard and Princess Françoise, by his brothers, Prince Robert and Prince Charles-Henri, and by his sister, Princess Marie-Gabrielle.<br><br>
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<div>Prince Marie <em>Robert</em> Emanuel Joseph Michel Benoît Melchior Lobkowicz was born at Paris on 31 December 1961. He was the second child of Prince Edouard Lobkowicz and Princess Françoise of Bourbon-Parma.<br><br>Like his older brother Edouard, Robert attended the Saint Ignatius Institute at the University of San Francisco, from which he graduated. Robert also completed his service in the French Army. The prince was also a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.<br><br>On 29 October 1988, Prince Robert Lobkowicz died from a brain tumour while in Bhannes, Lebanon. Robert was twenty-six years-old when he passed away. In 1989, Robert's father Edouard opened the <a href="http://orderofmaltalebanon.org/bhannes-therapeutic-educational-center-for-children-with-cerebral-palsy/">Bhannes Therapeutic Educational Center For Children With Cerebral Palsy</a> in tribute to his late son. </div>
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<p><br>The year 1980 saw the marriages of three Archduchesses of Austria: Monika (b.1954; daughter of Archduke Otto and Archduchess Regina), Maria Beatrix (b.1954; daughter of Archduke Robert and Archduchess Margherita), and Maria del Pilar (b.1953; daughter of Archduke Felix and Archduchess Anna-Eugénie). In 2020, all three archduchesses, who are also first cousins, celebrate their ruby wedding anniversaries with their respective husbands.<br><br></p>
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<p><br>On 26 April 1980, Archduchess Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este married Count Riprand von und zu Arco-Zinneberg at Chartres. The couple held their civil wedding on 31 March 1980 at Sankt Martin im Innkreis, Austria. Fifth cousins, the bride and groom are both descendants of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1756-1825).<br><br></p>
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<p><br>Her Imperial and Royal Highness Archduchess Maria Beatrix Anna Felicitas Zita Charlotte Adelheid Christina Elisabeth Gennara of Austria-Este was born on 11 December 1954 at Boulogne-sur-Seine. She was the eldest child of Archduke Robert of Austria (1915-1996) and Archduchess Margherita (b.1930; born Princess of Savoy). Maria Beatrix completed her early education with the Ursuline nuns at the Collége Blanche-de-Castille at Versailles; she went on to study economics and political science at the University of Innsbruck. The archduchess then decided to pursue a doctorate wherein she studied the economy of Peru.<br><br></p>
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<p>Count Riprand Maria Franz von und zu Arco-Zinneberg was born on 25 July 1955 at Munich. He was the second son and last child of Count Ulrich von und zu Arco-Zinneberg (1917-1980) and Countess Maria Theresia (1922-2003; born Countess von Preysing-Lichtenegg-Moos). Riprand studied architecture at the Technical University in Munich and holds an Engineering and Architectural Master’s Degree. His personal interests are history and politics. He wanted to become a doctor, but left these hopes behind in order to pursue an engineering career. The count has done very well in real estate.<br><br></p>
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<p>Archduchess Maria Beatrix and Count Riprand were joined in holy matrimony by the papal nuncio, Mgr. Felici. The archduchess wore a bridal gown designed for her by Pierre Balmain. The wedding was attending by a large gathering of the Gotha: Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary; King Umberto and Queen Marie-José of Italy; Princess Anne, Dowager Duchess of Aosta; Prince Henri and Princess Isabella, the Count and Countess of Paris; Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg; and Prince Franz Josef and Princess Georgina of Liechtenstein were all on hand to witness the union.</p>
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<br>During their forty years together, Riprand and Maria Beatrix have lived in Europe and North America. The couple have six daughters: Countess Anna Theresa (b.1981; married since 2018 to Collin McKenzie), Countess Margherita (b.1983), Countess Olympia (b.1988; married since 2019 to Prince Jean-Christophe Napoléon), Countess Maximiliana (b.1990), Countess Marie-Gabrielle (b.1992), and Countess Giorgiana (b.1997). Count Riprand von und zu Arco-Zinneberg is President and founder of the American Asset Corporation (AAC), a real estate investment and development company in the USA headquartered in New York City.<br><br>
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<p><br>Today, Hereditary Prince Bernhard of Baden marks his fiftieth birthday!<br><br></p>
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<p><br>On 27 May 1970, Prince Bernhard Max Friedrich August Gustav Ludwig Kraft of Baden was born at Schloss Salem, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was christened on 6 July 1970. Bernhard was the first son and second child of Margrave Max of Baden (b.1933) and Archduchess Valerie of Austria-Tuscany (b.1941), who married in 1966. Bernhard joined an older sister, Princess Marie Louise (b.1969), and he was followed by two younger brothers, Prince Leopold (b.1971) and Prince Michael (b.1976). Hereditary Prince Bernhard of Baden is a great-nephew of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, as Bernhard's paternal grandmother is Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906-1969). In 1931, Princess Theodora married Margrave Berthold of Baden (1906-1963). Bernhard's maternal grandparents are Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria-Tuscany (1894-1971) and Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm (1904-2001).<br><br></p>
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<td class="tr-caption">Dowager Fürstin Gloria of Thurn and Taxis with Prince Bernhard in 1993<br>Photograph (c) Seeger-Presse</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">Hereditary Prince Bernhard of Baden in 1998<br>Photograph (c) Seeger-Presse </td>
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<td class="tr-caption">Duchess Maria Anna in Bavaria, Duchess Fleur of Württemberg, and Hereditary Prince Bernhard of Baden in 1998<br>Photograph (c) Seeger-Presse</td>
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<div><br>Bernhard of Baden studied business administration and law in Hamburg and Switzerland. Since completing his education, the hereditary prince has worked as a commercial lawyer. Prince Bernhard is involved in the management of his family's real estate and business holdings.<br><br>
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<td class="tr-caption">The newlyweds<br>Photograph (c) Seeger-Presse</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">Princess Caroline of Monaco, with her husband Prince Ernst August of Hannover in the foreground, greets the groom<br>Photograph (c) Seeger-Presse </td>
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<td class="tr-caption">King Constantine II of the Hellenes greeting the bride and groom<br>Photograph (c) Seeger-Presse</td>
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<p>On 22 June 2001, Prince Bernhard married Stephanie Anne Kaul (b.1966), the daughter of Christian Kaul and Hannelore Scheel, in a civil ceremony. The couple were joined in a religious ceremony on 23 June at Schloß Salem. Among the 200 guests were Queen Sofia of Spain, King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, King Mihail I and Queen Anne of Romania, Prince Ernst August of Hannover and Princess Caroline of Monaco, Landgrave Moritz of Hesse, Prince Guillaume and Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg, Grand Duke Jean and Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, Duke Max Emanuel in Bavaria, Duke Carl of Württemberg, as well as Prince Hassan and Princess Sarvath of Jordan with their daughter Princess Sumeya.<br><br></p>
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<td class="tr-caption">Prince Leopold of Baden's christening at Salem in July 2002<br>Photograph (c) Seeger-Presse / Minka Reddig</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">Prince Leopold with his parents at the christening of his little brother Prince Friedrich in June 2004<br>Photograph (c) Seeger-Presse / Sandra Zellner</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">The christening of Prince Karl-Wilhelm of Baden in May 2006<br>Left to right: Marie Louise Baker, Princess Stephanie holding son Friedrich, Prince Bernhard standing in front of son Leopold, Mathias Schilling and Prince Ernst August Jr of Hannover holding their godson Karl-Wilhelm, Archduke Alexander of Austria-Tuscany, Princess Agläe of Baden<br>Photograph (c) Seeger-Presse / Sandra Zellner</td>
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<p><br>Bernhard and Stephanie have three sons: Prince Leopold (b.2002), Prince Friedrich (b.2004), and Prince Karl-Wilhelm (b.2006). The family of five lives at Linzgau near Schloss Salem.<br><br></p>
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<p><br>The princess, who is seventy-eight years-old, developed a minor form of the disease and recovered from it while resting at her residence in Marbella. When she discovered she had COVID-19, Béatrice was in Brussels with her daughter Princess Adélaïde and her grandchildren. However, as the closing of borders between E.U. member nations became imminent, Princess Béatrice made the choice to return to her home in Spain as she preferred to be in solitary confinement in her own house. Her doctors have confirmed that she is now back to a perfect state of health.<br><br></p>
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<p><br>Princess Béatrice d'Orléans was born Béatrice Pasquier de Franclieu; she married Prince Michel d'Orléans, Count of Érveux, in 1967. The couple had four children: Princess Clotilde, Princess Adélaïde, Prince Charles-Philippe, and Prince François. Béatrice and Michel divorced in 2012. A recipient of the Légion d'honneur, the princess has worked in public relations and in the world of fashion.<br><br>Source: <a href="https://www.vanitatis.elconfidencial.com/famosos/2020-05-21/beatriz-orleans-pasa-sola-coronavirus-marbella_2603408/">Beatriz de Orleans pasó el coronavirus sola en su casa: "Tengo anticuerpos para regalar"</a></p>
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<p><br>Prince Jean d'Orléans, Count of Paris, has issued a number of statements on the condition of the statue of King Louis XVI of France in Louisville, Kentucky. During a protest in that city, a hand was removed from the statue.<br><br></p>
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<p><br>Protests have taken place around the United States of America following the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 25 May 2020. Mr Floyd worked as a restaurant security guard until his job was terminated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. George Floyd, who was forty-six years-old, is survived by two daughters.<br><br></p>
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<p>On 29 May, the Count of Paris took to Twitter with the following words: "The hand of Louis XVI is the one that helped the US people to gain its freedom. I strongly regret this act of disrespect towards our common history. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/louisxvi?src=hashtag_click">#louisxvi</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/louisville?src=hashtag_click">#louisville</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Minneapolisprotest?src=hashtag_click">#Minneapolisprotest</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Louisvilleprotests?src=hashtag_click">#Louisvilleprotests</a>" Today, 30 May, Prince Jean issued another statement on the situation: "The loss of George Floyd's life is far more serious than any material degradation. Few people knowthat Louis XVI abolished torture in 1780. I'm convinced Louis would have been on George's side. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/georgefloyd?src=hashtag_click">#georgefloyd</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/kentucky?src=hashtag_click">#kentucky</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/louisville?src=hashtag_click">#louisville</a>"</p>
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<p><br><br>Today, 1 June, Nicholas of Romania announced that his wife Alina-Maria is expecting their first child in November. The proud parents-to-be chose a very apt day to announce the pregnancy - 1 June is Ziua Copilului (Children's Day) in Romania!<br><br></p>
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<p><br>This will be the first child for the couple. Nicholas of Romania and Alina-Maria Binder were civilly married on 6 October 2017 and religiously married on 30 September 2018. Nicholas is the son of Princess Helen of Romania and the late Dr. Robin Medforth-Mills. Alina is the daughter of Heinz Binder and Rodica Iancu. The couple lives in Bucharest.<br><br></p>
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<p><br><strong><em>Our best wishes to Nicholas and Alina on this very happy news!</em></strong><br><strong><em><br></em></strong>For more about the ancestry of Nicholas of Romania, please visit this page: <a href="https://heirsofeurope.blogspot.com/search/label/Romania">Heirs of Europe - Romania</a></p>
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<p>Prince Constantine of Greece and Denmark was born at Psychiko Palace, Greece, on 2 June 1940. Crown Princess Frederica recalled: "<em>My two elder children, Sophie and Constantine, were born in my sitting-room in our small house. My parents came for Sophie's birth but, when Tino was born, the war had already started and they could not come. Palo [Paul] stayed with me all the time and held my hand. The Prime Minister sat downstairs with the King, because it was the custom that the Prime Minister should be in the house.</em>" The Acropolis was floodlighted in celebration of the prince's birth, and guns were fired in salute throughout the country. The baby boy was named after his paternal grandfather King Constantine I of Greece. The prince was the first son and second child of Crown Prince Paul of Greece and Crown Princess Frederica (born Princess of Hannover), who wed in 1938. Constantine joined an older sister, Princess Sophia (b.1938); he was followed by a younger sister, Princess Irene (b.1942). At the time of his arrival, Constantine's uncle George II was King of Greece; the infant prince was second in the line of succession after his father Paul.<br><br></p>
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<p>King George II of the Hellenes passed away at Athens on 1 April 1947 at the age of fifty-six. He was succeeded by his last surviving brother, who became King Paul I. At the time, the new Crown Prince Constantine of Greece was only six years-old. The crown prince accompanied his father during the funeral of his uncle. Constantine had been educated at a preparatory school and later a boarding school, the Victoria College of Alexandria, Egypt, where his classmates included King Hussein of Jordan. A fellow student recalled him as "<em>a good chap, a young man with all the right instincts. He was at his best on the playing fields.</em>" Constantine was also a pupil at Anavryta, a secondary school established at Sygnros in Kifissia; the prince attended this institution for nine years. Crown Prince Constantine served in all three branches of the Hellenic Armed Forces and attended the requisite military academies. The Greek heir also attended the NATO Air Force Special Weapons School in Germany, as well as the University of Athens, where he undertook courses in the school of law.<br><br></p>
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<p><br>When Crown Prince Constantine came of age in 1958, he swore allegiance to his father and to the Greek people. Given this occasion, on 2 June 1958 King Paul delivered this address to his only son:</p>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>Constantine,</em> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>God has graciously destined you to reign over this glorious, gallant and noble Nation of ours.</em> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>This sacred favour given to you, is an outstanding mark of honour and a legacy of great responsibility. </em> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>As from this day, you shall be my partner in the endeavour to further the progress and well-being of my people.</em> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>I am confident that your love of the Greek People, equal as it is to my own profound affection for them, will bring you as great happiness as it brings to me. In paying the price of their glorious history and enduring the consequences of their age-long struggles even to this day, in defence of mankind, the Greek People have not as yet been able to develop their capabilities to the full and achieve the standard of well-being to which they are justly entitled. For this very reason, they deserve every mark of affection and regard and every act of sacrifice on your part.</em> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>Be a just, kind and indefatigable worker for the advance and glory of Greece.<br>Uphold steadfastly the Democratic Principles of our institutions and the Constitutional Liberties of our People.</em> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>Devote your life to the happiness of the Country. There is no task more noble and more important than this. Always remember that it is preferable that the King should suffer than that the suffering should fall on the Nation and the Country. Endeavour to show yourself worthy of the Greek Soldier whose leader you will be in the future. When the time comes, you will take your place at the head of the Greek Armed Forces, the bearers of a heroic and glorious tradition.</em> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>Keep them devoted to duty and battle-worthy, the guardians of our tradition, respected by our friends and feared by our foes, the priceless jewel of a proud Nation.<br>May they never be forced to strike.</em> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>Be the protector and guardian of our Holy Church.<br>Draw your strength from the love between you and your people.<br>Redress offence by pardon,<br>Discord by unity,<br>Error by truth,<br>Doubt by faith.</em> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>I pray that you and my People may know days of glory in the noble struggle for progress and civilisation.</em> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>May God Almighty make you an instrument of peace and always keep guard over Greece and over your, Constantine, my son. </em></blockquote>
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<p>In 1959, at the age of nineteen, Constantine met his future wife, his third cousin Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, aged thirteen, on a state visit to Denmark. Anne-Marie was the third and last daughter of King Frederik IX of Denmark and Queen Ingrid. Constantine and Anne-Marie met a second time in Denmark in 1961, when Constantine declared to her parents his intention to marry Anne-Marie; at this point King Frederik briefly locked Constantine in the toilet. They met again in Athens in May 1962 at the marriage of Constantine's sister Princess Sofia of Greece and Denmark to Prince Juan Carlos of Spain at which Anne-Marie was a bridesmaid: and again in 1963 at the centenary celebrations of the Greek monarchy.</p>
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<br>When he was on a tour of the United States, Constantine spent time with his cousin King Simeon II of Bulgaria, who at that time was a student at the military school at Valley Forge. The two royals were pulled over by a policeman. Though neither Constantine nor Simeon had identification on them, they presented themselves as "Crown Prince of Greece" and "King of Bulgaria." Needless to say, they were briefly arrested before the Greek embassy intervened and verified their identities. In 1960, aged twenty, Crown Prince Constantine won an Olympic gold medal in sailing, which was the first Greek gold medal in sailing since the Stockholm 1912 Summer Olympics. He was also a strong swimmer and had a black belt in karate.<br><br>
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<br>Aged sixty-two, King Paul I of Greece died at Athens on 6 March 1964, and Constantine succeeded to the throne.<br><br>
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On 18 September 1964, King Constantine of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark were wed at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Athens. The couple had five children: Princess Alexia (b.1965), Crown Prince Pavlos (b.1967), Prince Nikolaos (b.1969), Princess Theodora (b.1983) and Prince Philippos (b.1986). In 1967, following political instability, the King and Queen, with their two eldest children, fled from Greece to Rome, where they lived for a time. In 1974, the Greek monarchy was abolished. Eventually, the royal family settled in London - their residence in the United Kingdom lasted for many decades. In 2013, King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie returned to live in Greece.<br><br>
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<p><br>Princess Amelie zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg and Benedikt Schmid von Schmidsfelden recently announced their engagement. Amelie and Benedikt are both descendants of Empress Maria Theresia of Austria. Indeed, the pair are fifth cousins; their common ancestors are Archduchess Leopoldina of Austria-Este (1776-1848; granddaughter of Empress Maria Theresia) and her second husband Count Ludwig von Arco (1773-1856).<br><br></p>
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<p><br>Princess Amelie (b.15 August 1990) is the second child of Fürst Ludwig zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (b.1951) and Countess Elisabeth von Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee (b.1962). Amelie has an older sister, Princess Sophie, and a younger brother, Hereditary Prince Ludwig. The princess has been working for a bank in Zurich for three years.<br><br></p>
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<div>Benedikt Schmid von Schmidsfelden (b.27 May 1991) celebrated his twenty-nineth birthday a few days ago. He descends from an Austrian noble family near Melk. Benedikt is the youngest of four children; his parents are Wieland Schmid von Schmidsfelden and Elisabeth "Lilly" von Lennkh zu Burgheim and Gansheim. The young man works in Munich in the automotive parts supply industry.<br><br>Amelie and Benedikt met three years ago at the wedding of mutual friends. The couple will marry on 29 May 2021 at Wertheim. </div>
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<p>Yesterday, the Duchess of Sussex delivered a moving message to the 2020 graduating class of Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles. Immaculate Heart High Schoolwas founded in 1906 by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a Catholic religious order of women who trace their origin to Olot, Spain.<br><br></p>
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<p>The duchess recalled the words of her teacher, Ms. Maria Pollia, who is a theology teacher at the institution. Pollia told the young Rachel Meghan Markle: "<em>Always remember to put others needs above your own fears.</em>" The Duchess of Sussex remarked that her teacher's words had stuck with her always, and that this missive had especially been on her mind during these past couple of weeks.<br><br></p>
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<p><br>The full text of the address given by the Duchess of Sussex is as follows:<br><br></p>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">Immaculate Heart High School, graduating class of 2020, for the past couple of weeks, I've been planning on saying a few words to you for your graduation, and as we all have seen over the last week, what is happening in our country and in our state and in our hometown of LA has been absolutely devastating. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">And I wasn't sure what I could say to you. I wanted to say the right thing. And I was really nervous that I wouldn’t, or that it would get picked apart, and I realized: The only wrong thing to say is to say nothing. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">Because George Floyd's life mattered, and Breonna Taylor's life mattered, and Philando Castile's life mattered, and Tamir Rice's life mattered, and so did so many other people whose names we know and whose names we do not know. Stephon Clark. His life mattered. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">And I was thinking about this moment when I was a sophomore in high school. I was fifteen, and as you know, sophomore year is the year that we do volunteer work, which is a prerequisite for graduating. And I remember my teacher at the time, one of my teachers, Ms. Pollia, said to me before I was leaving before a day of volunteering: 'Always remember to put others needs above your own fears.' And that has stuck with me through my entire life, and I have thought about it more in the last week than ever before.<br><br>The first thing I want to say to you is that I’m sorry. I’m so sorry that you have to grow up in a world where this is still present. I was eleven or twelve years old when I was just about to start Immaculate Heart Middle School in the fall, and it was the LA riots, which were also triggered by a senseless act of racism. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">I remember the curfew and I remember rushing back home and on that drive home seeing ash fall from the sky and smelling the smoke — and seeing the smoke billow out of buildings and seeing people run out of buildings carrying bags and looting, and I remember seeing men in the back of a van just holding guns and rifles. And I remember pulling up to the house and seeing the tree that had always been there completely charred. And those memories don't go away. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">I can’t imagine that at seventeen or eighteen years-old, which is how old you are now, that you would have to have a different version of that same type of experience. That’s something you should have an understanding of — but an understanding of as a history lesson, not as your reality. So I am sorry that in a way we have not gotten the world to the place that you deserve it to be.<br><br>The other thing, though, that I do remember about that time was how people came together. And, we are seeing that right now. We are seeing that from the sheriff in Michigan or the police chief in Virginia. We are seeing people stand in solidarity. We are seeing communities come together and to uplift. You are going to be part of this movement. I know that this is not the graduation that you envisioned, and this is not the celebration that you imagined. But I also know that there is a way for us to reframe this for you and to not see this as the end of something, but, instead, to see this as the beginning of you harnessing all of the work, all of the values, all of the skills, that you have embodied over the last four years, and now you channel that. Now all of that work gets activated. Now you get to be part of rebuilding. And I know that sometimes people how many times do we need to rebuild. Well, you know, we are going to rebuild and rebuild and rebuild until it is rebuild. Because when the foundation is broken, so are we. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">You are going to lead with love. You are going to lead with compassion. You are going to use your voice. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">You are going to use your voice in a stronger way than you have ever been able to, because most of you are eighteen, or you are going to turn eighteen, so you are going to vote. You are going to have empathy for those who don’t see the world through the same lens that you do — because with as diverse, and vibrant, and opened-minded as I know the teachings at Immaculate Heart are, I know you know that black lives matter. So I am already excited for what you are going to do in the world. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">You are equipped, you are ready, we need you, and you’re prepared. I am so proud to call each of you a fellow alumni, and I am so eager to see what you are going to do. Please know that I am cheering you on all along the way. I am exceptionally proud of you. I am wishing you a huge congratulations on today: the start of all the impact you are going to make in the world as the leaders which we all so deeply crave. Congratulations, ladies, and thank you in advance.</blockquote>
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<div>Meghan Markle married Prince Harry of Wales, the second son of the Prince of Wales, in 2018. Prince Harry was created the Duke of Sussex upon his marriage. In 2019, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed the arrival of their son Archie. The family currently live in Los Angeles. </div>
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<p><br><br>Yesterday, 11 June, the Prince's Palace of Monaco announced the death of Elisabeth-Anne de Massy, who passed away on Wednesday, 10 June, at the Princess Grace Hospital Centre in Monte Carlo. She was seventy-two years-old.<br><br></p>
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<p><br>Elisabeth was the first cousin of Princess Caroline of Hannover, Prince Albert II of Monaco, and Princess Stéphanie of Monaco (Elisabeth's goddaughter). Prior to the death of her uncle Prince Rainier III of Monaco in 2005, Elisabeth de Massy was fifteenth in the line of succession to the Monegasque throne.<br><br></p>
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<p>Elizabeth-Ann Charlotte Mary Kathleen Dévote Grimaldi was born on 3 July 1947 in Monte Carlo to Princess Antoinette "Tiny" of Monaco (28 December 1920 – 18 March 2011) and Alexandre-Athenase "Aleco" Noghès (15 June 1916 – 16 February 1999), an attorney and international tennis champion. Elisabeth's parents were not married when she was born. Elisabeth was joined by a younger brother and sister: Christian (b.1949) and Christine (1951 – 1989). Princess Antoinette of Monaco and Alexandre-Athenase Noghès married in Genoa, Italy, on 4 December 1951; the month before, on 15 November 1951, Princess Antoinette was created Baroness of Massy by her brother Prince Rainier III. Her children's surnames were then changed from "Grimaldi" to "de Massy." The Noghès/Monaco union was of short duration, and the couple divorced in 1954. Antoinette retained custody of her children and limited their contact with their father Aleco.<br><br></p>
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<p><br>In her early years, Elisabeth lived with her family at the Villa les Glycines (built in 1910 by Walter Williams, the first winner of the Monaco Grand Prix) and then at the Villa Mereze. Given the rather turbulent nature of the household of Princess Antoinette, the one calming fixture in her children's youth was their nanny, Kathleen Wanstall, who had also been the nanny of Princess Antoinette and Prince Rainier.<br><br></p>
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<p><br>Elisabeth de Massy was the paternal granddaughter of Antony Noghès (1890 – 1978), the founder of the Grand Prix de Monaco, and Marie Markellos-Petsalis. Elisabeth's maternal great-grandparents were Count Pierre de Polignac (1895 – 1964) and Princess Charlotte of Monaco (1898 – 1977 ).<br><br></p>
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<p><br>On 19 January 1974 in Geneva, Elisabeth de Massy married Baron Bernard Alexandre Taubert-Natta (Geneva 2 July 1941 – Geneva 13 April 1989). The couple had one son, Baron Jean-Léonard Taubert Natta (b.Geneva 3 June 1974). Elisabeth and Bernard divorced on 30 October 1980. In September 1982, Elisabeth de Massy suffered an intestinal haemorrhage. On 18 October 1984 in London, Elisabeth married choreographer Nicolai Vladimir Costello (b.24 December 1943; uses the surname "de Lusignan"). Elisabeth and Nicolai had one daughter, Mélanie-Antoinette Costello de Lusignan (b.Monaco 18 January 1985); they divorced on 28 March 1985.<br><br></p>
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<p><br>Elisabeth was the only one of Princess Antoinette's two surviving children to successfully navigate the complicated dynamic that existed between Antoinette and her brother Rainier. She was a support to her mother as well as to her uncle and her paternal first cousins. In 1963, one of Princess Stéphanie's godparents was her first cousin Elisabeth. When Stéphanie married Daniel Ducruet in 1995, Elisabeth was one of the forty guests at her goddaughter/cousin's wedding.<br><br></p>
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<p><br>On 17 November 1995, Elisabeth de Massy was made Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Saint-Charles. Elisabeth served as the President of the Monegasque Tennis Federation and the Monte Carlo Country Club. In 1984, she was appointed vice-president of the Society for the Protection of Animals – Abri de Monaco and, the following year, she became vice-president of the Canine Society of Monaco. In 2009, Elisabeth was appointed Commander of the Order of Grimaldi. For many years, the discreet baroness accompanied her cousin Prince Albert II as a stand-in "First Lady of Monaco."<br><br></p>
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<p><br>Elisabeth de Massy is survived by her son Jean-Léonard, her daughter-in-law Suzanne, her grandson Melchior, and her daughter Mélanie-Antoinette.<br><br><em><strong>May She Rest In Peace.</strong></em></p>
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<p><br>Today, Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies celebrates her seventieth birthday.<br><br></p>
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<p><br>On 16 June 1950, Princess Béatrice Marie Caroline Louise Françoise of Bourbon-Two Sicilies was born at Saint-Raphaël, Var, France. The princess was the first child of Prince Ferdinando of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro (1926-2008), and Princess Chantal of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1925-2004; née de Chevron-Villette), who wed in 1949. Béatrice was joined by two younger siblings: Princess Anne (b.1957) and Prince Carlo (b.1963).<br><br></p>
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<p><br>During the mid-1970s, Béatrice met the heir of the Bonaparte legacy, Prince Charles Napoléon (b.19 October 1950). The Bourbon princess and the Bonaparte prince fell in love and decided to marry. Charles and Béatrice ruffled the feathers of their respective parents, the Prince and Princess Napoléon as well as the Duke and Duchess of Castro, by contracting a civil marriage on 18 December 1978 in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The only guests at the wedding were the couple's parents and their witnesses. The couple declined to hold a Roman Catholic ceremony; however, a benediction was held in the strictest intimacy. A reception celebrating the Bonaparte/Bourbon nuptials was hosted by the bride's sister, Princess Anne, then Madame Jacques Chochin. Charles worked for an international bank. Béatrice quit her position in a political secretariat and began a career with an airline company. Aside from their reported mutual passion for politics, the couple also were firm in desiring privacy for themselves and their children. No photographs of Béatrice and Charles together were ever released to the media.<br><br></p>
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<p><br>Béatrice and Charles had two children: Princess Caroline Marie Constance Napoléon (b.Paris 24 October 1980) and Prince Jean-Christophe Louis Ferdinand Albéric Napoléon (b.Saint-Raphaël, Var 11 July 1986). After ten years of marriage, Princess Béatrice and her husband were divorced on 2 May 1989. Béatrice never remarried.<br><br></p>
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<br>Princess Béatrice remained very close to her former parents-in-law, the Prince and Princess Napoléon. Béatrice devoted her activities to being a mother to her two children and engaging in various historical and charitable causes. After the death of the Countess of Paris in 2003, Princess Béatrice succeeded Madame as the President of the Prix Hugues-Capet. The prize was created in 1994 by Jacques-Henri Auclair, the President of Unité Capétienne Association. In 2006, Béatrice co-wrote <em>Votre Mariage Royale</em> with Cyrille Boulay.<br><br>
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<br>On 27 June 2009 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Princess Caroline Napoléon civilly married Eric Querenet-Onfroy de Breville (b.28 June 1971), son of François Querenet-Onfroy de Breville and Christiane de Vaugelas. The couple celebrated their religious wedding on 19 September 2009 at the Basilica Pontificia Santa Maria dell'Assunta in Castellabate nel Cilento, Salerno. Caroline and Eric have two children: Elvire (b.8 August 2010) and Augustin (b.12 February 2013).<br><br>
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<br>On 17 October 2019 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Prince Jean-Christophe Napoléon civilly married Countess Olympia von und zu Arco-Zinneberg (b.1988), daughter of Count Riprand von und zu Arco-Zinneberg and Archduchess Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este. The couple celebrated their religious wedding on 19 October 2019 at the Cathedral of Saint-Louis des Invalides in Paris.<br><br>
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Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies lives in France.<br><br>
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