70th Birthday of Prince Gundakar and Princess Diemut of Liechtenstein

Today, Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein and his twin sister Princess Diemut celebrate their 70th birthdays! The twins were born at Vienna on 1 April 1949 as the eldest children of Prince Hans-Moritz of Liechtenstein (1914-2004) and Princess Clotilde of Thurn and Taxis (1922-2009), who had married in 1944. The little princess was named Diemut Margarete Maria Benedicta Anna; while her brother received the names Gundakar Albert Alfred Petrus. Diemut and Gundakar were followed by five younger siblings: Alfred (b.1951); Adelgunde (b.1953), Emmeran (b.1955), Eleonore (b.1958), and Hugo (b.1964).

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On 29 June 1982 at Vaduz, Princess Diemut was civilly married to Ulrich Köstlin (b.1952). The couple celebrated their religious wedding on 17 July 1982 at Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Lower Austria. Princess Diemut is pictured in the above image between the Duke of Vendôme and her brother Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein on the occasion of the marriage of her twin brother in 1989. During their marriage, Princess Diemut and Ulrich Köstlin had a son and a daughter, Clemens and Luise. The couple have since divorced.

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On 22 July 1989 at Dreux, Prince Gundakar was civilly married to Princess Marie d'Orléans (b.1959), the eldest daughter of the late Prince Henri d'Orléans, Count of Paris (1933-2019), and Duchess Marie-Thérèse of Württemberg (b.1934). The couple celebrated their religious wedding on 29 July 1989 at Schloß Friedrichshafen. Prince Gundakar and Princess Marie are the parents of five children: Léopoldine (b.1990), Marie Immaculata (b.1991), Johann Wenzel (b.1993), Margarete (b.1995), and Gabriel (b.1998).

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EuroHistory wishes a very Happy Birthday to Prince Gundakar and Princess Diemut!

Prince Andrew and Sarah: Are the Duke and Duchess of York Together Again?

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Folks, despite the opportune timing, this is not an April Fools' joke! From ITV: "Last weekend, Fergie [Sarah Ferguson] joined her former husband after he completed a number of official royal visits overseas. The couple stayed in Bahrain on a private visit but they were official guests of their host: the Bahrain Crown Prince. The Duchess of York hasn’t been on a foreign royal visit with the Duke for 25 years."

For more on the goings-on of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York, visit these links:

Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson's relationship back on as the divorced couple get back together

Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew's incredibly unique relationship - a closer look

Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson rekindle their romance - reports

EUROHISTORY: Issues CXVII & CXVIII begin arriving in Subscribers' hands

 

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This afternoon, as is customary for him, our longtime subscriber Phil Perry took BART from San Francisco and visited Eurohistory, where he collected his copies of Issues CXVII & CXVIII.

Besides having a good chat abut the latest royal news, as well as discussing the contents of the magazine, we had an enjoyable time with Phil.

 

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Among out topics of conversation were my growing interest in pre-modern European royalty, particularly: The Plantagenets, the Wittelsbachs and Habsburgs, the Trastámaras of Castilla and Aragón, the Albrets of Navarre, the Valois, the House of Orange, the Sforza of Milan, the Nassaus, there Rurikids of Russia, the Medicis of Florence, the Gonzaga of Mantua, and oh so many more. I feel most magazines have tended to ignore this vast wealth of European royal history. Hence, EUROHISTORY hast started more research into these ancient dynasties that contributed so greatly to the development and shaping of modern Europe.

Expect more articles about these unique dynasties inside our pages!

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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 arrive here on Friday, April 5. Issue CXXX is scheduled to be ready on April 12. The following day, we will begin mailing these two issues to all Eurohistory subscribers who sent their 2018 renewals. Inside the envelope, a renewal notice for 2019 will be included!

 

It has been very satisfying personally to get these magazine issues finished, printed, and mailed...

Looking to yet another more copies of Eurohistory and with your continued support, we will have a fantastic 2019, our 22nd year in publication!

Regards, Arturo Beéche

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EUROHISTORY: New Pricing for Our Books

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EUROHISTORY: Issue CXIX – Volume 21.3, Fall 2018 nearly ready!

Dear Subscribers and readers,

Continuing with my personal marathon to get all of last year's magazines out ASAP...I am delighted  to let you all know that tonight I finished putting together Issue CXIX – Volume 21.3, Fall 2018!

Inside this magazine you will find the following articles:


1. The Romanovs Adrift: The Imperial Family in 1913-1919, by Greg King and Penny Wilson

2. Obituary: Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma – Last of the Royal Swashbucklers, by Charles B. Stewart jr.

3. Kadriorg – A Russian Summer Palace in Tallinn, by Katrina Warne

4. A Royal Wedding in Gotha – The Civil Wedding of Princess Stephanie of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha and Herr Jan Stahl, by Arturo E. Beéche & Marianne van Dam

5. Princess Helen of Serbia, by Coryne Hall

6. Centennial of the Romanov Martyrdom, by Arturo E. Beéche

7. The Wedding of there Duke of Sussex, by Edwina Tash

8. Queen Isabel's Iberian Forge, by Justin Vovk

9. A True Royal Wedding – The Hereditary Prince Ferdinand of Leiningen Marries Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia, by Arturo E. Beéche

10. Royal News


This issue will head to print mid-week and mail by early April, along with Issue CXX – Winter 2018!

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EUROHISTORY: V Royal Gatherings in London – April 27-28, 2019

 

 

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The 2019 Royal Gatherings in London Conference will take place on 27th & 28th April at:

 

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We already have the following speakers confirmed:- 

 

Stephen Patterson	"This Thorny Throne" - Russia, Royalty & the Romanovs
Jeffrey Hyland	Government Houses and the Royal Family
Colin Parrish	Frederica, Duchess of York - a Weybridge Princess
Graham Viney	1947 Visit to South Africa
Coryne Hall	Alexander II's visits to Queen Victoria
Susan Symons	Schlösser in South-West Germany
Siobhan Clarke	Royal Babies
Katrina Warne	Gatchina Palace & Alexander III's Rooms
Alex Borg	King Farouk: More Sinned Against than Sinning?
Arturo Beeche	Fall of the German Dynasties

 

Stephen Patterson works for the Royal Collection & he is the co-curator of the exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery on “Russia, Royalty & the Romanovs” which finishes on Sunday 28^th April. See https://www.rct.uk/visit/the-queens-gallery-buckingham-palace & we would recommend you going to see this exhibition.

 

Siobhan Clarke does a lot of lectures & tours for Historic Royal Palaces.

 

To book your place please e mail Arturo Beeche (aebeeche@mac.com)

 

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The 2019 Royal Gatherings in London Conference will take place on 27th & 28th April at:

SPINK

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London WC1B 4ET

We already have the following speakers confirmed:- 

Stephen Patterson	"This Thorny Throne" - Russia, Royalty & the Romanovs
Jeffrey Hyland	Government Houses and the Royal Family
Colin Parrish	Frederica, Duchess of York - a Weybridge Princess
Graham Viney	1947 Visit to South Africa
Coryne Hall	Alexander II's visits to Queen Victoria
Susan Symons	Schlösser in South-West Germany
Siobhan Clarke	Royal Babies
Katrina Warne	Gatchina Palace & Alexander III's Rooms
Alex Borg	King Farouk: More Sinned Against than Sinning?
Arturo Beeche	Fall of the German Dynasties

Stephen Patterson works for the Royal Collection & he is the co-curator of the exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery on “Russia, Royalty & the Romanovs” which finishes on Sunday 28^th April. See https://www.rct.uk/visit/the-queens-gallery-buckingham-palace & we would recommend you going to see this exhibition.

Siobhan Clarke does a lot of lectures & tours for Historic Royal Palaces.

To book your place please e mail Arturo Beeche (aebeeche@mac.com)

A word to our readers and subscribers...

I founded EUROHISTORY in August 1997, while a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs. It was an attempt to remind myself that in spite of working in an industry that was hugely profitable, my heart was in the study of history in general, royalty in particular.

This has been a highly fulfilling and satisfying endeavor. EUROHISTORY became my life; it made me friends worldwide; it built a community; it created bonds between people all across the planet...

This business started, as John Kelleher said, "as a one man show."

Today, EUROHISTORY is far from being a "one man show." It is a community of of people who are passionate about the study of royalty, particularly European royals. Our contributors include most of today's most renowned and respected authors. We do our work because we love to study royalty. Many times, we do our work without seeking compensation. Ilana Miller, Katrina Warne, Mary Houck, Seth B. Leonard, Justin Vovk, Lisa Davidson, Charles B. Stewart Jr., Katie Tice, Darren Shelton, David McIntosh, Ricardo Mateos Sainz de Medrano, Ian Shapiro, the late Bill Lalor and the late Theo Aronson...and so many, many more have contributed, over the last 22 years, their talent and efforts to making the magazine and our books the serious publications that they are!

I am deeply indebted to every single one of you, as well as I am toward everyone who has subscribed to our magazine since its birth in August 1997. I am also deeply indebted to our loyal readership and book buyers. Without your continue support, in spite of my many shortcomings and frequent missed deadlines, we would not be where we are today.

Last year was a particularly difficult one for us on a personal level...

Our son Nicholas was in and out of mental health clinics after attempting suicide nine times. Each stay in a psychiatric institution lasted at the very least 2 weeks. At one point he was hospitalized for 5 months. For us, his parents and family, it was devastating. Weekends were spent visiting him where he was hospitalized, attending therapy sessions, dealing with his continued anger. Then, last summer Nicky ran away from a therapeutic facility where he had been living since January. For several days we had no idea of his whereabouts. It was a nightmare. Eventually he reached out to us through his birth mother, who had helped him leave the facility where he was hospitalized. We were deeply disturbed as she is a drug addict. Not a good living setup for him. We have not seen much of him since then. I hope and pray that he is safe, but there isn't anything else that Dave and I can do...

Our son Zac was also institutionalized from August 2017 to December 2018. He got in trouble for various reasons and the court mandated that he undergo a period away from us, a time when he needed to focus on getting better. He lived in a facility near Palm Springs, where we visited him at least once a month. Finally, last December we were able to fly down there and bring him home. He is now attending college and doing great!

During his absence, his fiancée and their son moved in with us. Dave and I found ourselves "hand-on" grandparents, as we were absolutely delighted to be in a position to help her as much as she wished with our grandson Ezra, who is simply the sunshine of our lives.

On top of it all, as if life wasn't complicated enough, last year MAJESTY stopped selling books. This was a huge loss of business for us, as was the closing of Hoogstraten English Bookstore (we are delighted that they at least continued selling our books through their excellent website). Visit their website at http:www.hoogstraten.nl

Our magazine has never made a notable profit. The business model wasn't;t designed for that to be the case. We don't sell advertisement because I want full independence. Hence, our entire budget comes from subscriptions and sales of past issues. For years this was enough. Our readership has remained constant and loyal.

In order to raise the magazine's aesthetic level, I decided to give the printing contract to the same company that prints our books. They are highly respected and their work is fantastic. I hoped that by having book-binding on the magazine, we would increase readership. At the beginning of the change we witnessed a spike in subscribers. And then it leveled off. We gained readers, but not enough the huge increase in printing and shipping costs. The end result was that the new printing format for EUROHISTORY left me with an approximate yearly loss of over $8000.00 – the first years I could reset to my own funds to make up the loss. However, with personal expenses increasing (medical, college, baby), and the loss of MAJESTY as a selling venue. On top of it all, posts rates have continued to increase. The financial storm turned into a deadly hurricane!

The end result was that EUROHISTORY stopped publication...

I had an option...stop the magazine altogether. Several contributors suggested that I stop. Others suggested that I skip a year. Still, the larger number recommended that I persevere. I'm not a quitter; never have been, never will be. Stubborn as a mule I suppose!

Hence, after a lot of thought and discussions with my husband Dave, we decided that EUROHISTORY would continue. We would print all the issues for 2018. We would return to our local printer in Berkeley and produce the magazine in the old format, which always left us a small profit.

The first issue is in our hands now, ISSUE CXVII – Volume 21.1, Spring 2018. We are getting envelopes readied and will begin dispatching the magazine to subscribers this weekend. I am delighted with the finished product!

Meanwhile, we have sent to the printer ISSUE CXVII – Volume 21.2, Summer 2018. The printer will have it ready this next week. I am now working on ISSUE CXIX – Volume 21.3, Fall 2018, which we are sending to the printer this coming week. Issues CXVIII and CXIX will mail together the first week of April, soon followed by ISSUE CXX – Volume 21.4, Winter 2018. Inside this last issue, which will mail before mid-April, subscribers will receive their renewal notices!

I sincerely hope that most of our subscribers will renew. We are currently read in over 40 countries. We want to retain you, but we also need new ones...encourage your royalty-loving friends to join us, stay along with us...we may have a bumpy road some times, but oh has it been a wonderful journey to study and learn about royals!

As always, deepest thanks!

Arturo Beéche, Publisher

EUROHISTORY: Issue CXVIII, Volume 21.2 off to print!

Dear Subscribers and Readers,

After the last revisions, we have released Issue CXVIII – Volume 21.2 to the printer!

Below you can see the covers of the magazine, as well as the list of contents!

We have started putting together Issue CXIX – Volume 21.3, which will be released to the printer on Monday and ship along with Issue CXVIII.

Issue CXVII begins shipping tomorrow!

 

 

 

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EUROHISTORY – Issue CXVIII, Volume 21.2

Hello Subscribers and Eurohistory readers,

Earlier this morning we finished putting together Issue CXVIII – Volume 21.2.

Inside Issue CXVIII – Volume 21.2, are articles on the following topics:

1. Duke Friedrich of Württemberg (1961-2018), by Arturo E. Beéche

 

2. Hessian Endings – November 16, 1937, by Marlene A. Eilers Koenig

 

3. Prince Georg-Constantin of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1977-2018), by Arturo E. Beéche

 

4. Corfu – An Ionian Island Paradise, by Katrina Warne

 

5. Hubertus Stephan (1970-2018), by Arturo E. Beéche

 

6. Castles & Palaces of the House of Hesse, by Susan Symons

 

7. Margaret Beaufort – Tudor Matriarch, by Marian Bette

 

8. The Comte de Clermont (1961-2017), by Arturo E. Beéche

 

9. Book Reviews

 

10. Royal News

 

Issue CXVII and Issue CXVIII

 

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EUROHISTORY: Issue CXVII, Volume 21.1 Update!

Hello Subscribers and Eurohistory readers, Its has been some time since I last posted anything on the blog! All subscribers are getting a personal letter from me inside Issue CXVII, which we begin mailing on March 21! The magazine is being picked up at our old printer in Berkeley tomorrow afternoon. I have some advance copies and am quite happy with the result. Inside Issue CXVII – Volume 21.1, are articles on the following topics: 1. The Return of 'Prince' Nicholas of Romania, by Seth B. Leonard 2. An Imperial Bicentennial: The Tsar-Liberator, by Coryne Hall 3. Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich VI of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, by Marlene A. Eilers Koenig 4. Who Is In the Photograph: The Family of Infante don Carlos of Spain, by Arturo E. Beéche 5. Wittelsbach Castles & Palaces in Bavaria, by Susan Symons 6. Book Reviews, by Coryne Hall 7. Royal Reviews

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