Liechtenstein: Prince Eugen turns 80!

Earlier this year, on March 20, Prince Eugen of Liechtenstein turned 80 years-old. His family will gather and celebrate his birthday later in June!

Prince Eugen of Liechtenstein with his daughter Anna and her husband

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Prince Eugen was born in Mährisch-Sternberg, an estate owned by his father, Prince Johannes (1910-1975), who married Countess Karoline von Ledebur-Wichelm (1912-1996) at Mariaschein, Bohemia, in November 1936.

Once settled after their marriage, Prince Johannes and Princess Karoline set about building a family of their own. Four children would arrive in due time: Maria Eleonore (1937-2002), Eugen (b. 1939), Abrecht (1940-2017), and Barbara (b. 1942).

From the left: Prince Albrecht, Princess Karoline, Princess Barbara, and Prince Eugen of Liechtenstein. (Beware of using these images without permission!)

From the left: Prince Albrecht, Prince Eugen, Prince Monica (in first communion dress),

Princess Marie (Marizza), and Princess Barbara of Liechtenstein.

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Princess Marie Eleonore, Prince Albrecht, Princess Karoline holding Princess Barbara,

and Prince Eugen of Liechtenstein.

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It is worth mentioning that Prince Johannes was the third son and namesake of Prince Johannes (1873-1959) who was married to Countess Marie Andrássy von Czik-Szent-Király u, Krasna-Horka (1886-1961), a lively lady who made the old imperial capital's rumor mill work at full speed. Her granddaughter Princess Barbara of Yugoslavia described her as, "naughty, trouble-prone grandmama!" Interestingly, Prince Johannes Sr. was one of the siblings of Prince Aloys, who married Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (a half-sister of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este). They in turn were the parents of Prince Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein, the late father of the current reigning prince, Hans-Adam II. Prince Johannes Jr., therefore, was a first cousin of Prince Franz Joseph II. Coincidentally, and increasing the proximity of Prince Johannes Jr.'s branch to the senior line of the Liechtenstein dynasty, his wife Princess Karoline's eldest sister, Countess Henriette (1910-2002) married Count Ferdinand Kinsky v. Wchinitz u.Tettau (1907-1969). Their daughter, Marie-Aglaé married Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein, the principality's current sovereign prince.

Prince Eugen of Liechtenstein, Princess Anna of Liechtenstein, Prince Johannes of Liechtenstein, Princess Valerie and Prince Dushan of Yugoslavia, Princess Barbara of Yugoslavia (née Liechtenstein, Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein (nee Goëß), and Count Alexander Kottulinsky. (Beware of using these images without permission!)

Due to Czechoslovakia falling under Soviet control, the Liechtensteins lost all their property there. Prince Johannes and Princess Karoline were forced to pack just their essentials before heading to Austria with their four children in tow. They embarked on this dangerous trek in a bus that Prince Franz Joseph II had sent to Czechoslovakia to collect expelled relations. The Czech government was brutal and irrational when dealing with many of the old Austro-Hungarian aristocracy. In the end, many of them settled in and around Vaduz, the capital of the family's principality, or around Austria.

Prince Eugen of Liechtenstein and Countess Maria Theresia von Goëß on their wedding day, Ebenthal, 27 July 1968.

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Prince Eugen of Liechtenstein and Countess Maria Theresia von Goëß on their wedding day, Ebenthal, 27 July 1968. His mother Princess Karoline walking behind them.

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Prince Eugen of Liechtenstein and Countess Maria Theresia von Goëß on their wedding day, Ebenthal, 27 July 1968.

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Prince Eugen of Liechtenstein and Countess Maria Theresia von Goëß on their wedding day, Ebenthal, 27 July 1968, with Prince Johannes Jr. and Princess Barbara of Liechtenstein.

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Prince Eugen of Liechtenstein and Countess Maria Theresia von Goëß on their wedding day, Ebenthal, 27 July 1968.

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After obtaining a degree in forestry engineering in Vienna, it came time for Prince Eugen of Liechtenstein to find a spouse. He chose Countess Maria Theresia von Goëß. Born in Ebenthal, Austria, in May 1945, as the first child of Count Leopold-Zeno von Goëß and of his wife Countess Theodora (Dora) Kottulinsky, a first cousin of the late Countess of Paris, Isabelle d'Orléans-Bragança. In fact, Dora Kottulinsky's father was born Count Karl Kunata Dobrzensky v.Dobrzenicz, but assumed the title of Count Kottulinsky von Kottulin und Dobrzenicz in 1905 after being adopted by his aunt Theodora, Countess Kottulinsky v. Kottulin. Count Karl Kunata was married to Countess Maria Theresia von Meran, a Habsburg descendant. The Kottulinskys owned a vast estate named Chotebor, a property located southeast of Prague. Needless to mention, all these estates were lost when Czechoslovakia fell behind the Iron Curtain.

Prince Eugen married Countess Marie Theresia in Ebenthal, Austria, in July 1968. The couple had four children: Johannes (b. 1969), married to Countess Kinga Károlyi de Nagy-Károly (b. 1973); Anna (b. 1970), who married her second cousin Count Alexander Kottulinsky (b. 1967); Marie (b. 1974), married to Count Ferdinand v.u.zu Trauttmansdorf-Weinsberg (b. 1970); and Sophie (b. 1984), married to Count Clemens Hoyos (b. 1981). Their children have provided Prince Eugen and his wife more than a dozen grandchildren, with yet another grandchild on the way.

Prince Eugen and Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein.

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As his father had lost all property in Czechoslovakia, Prince Eugen and his siblings had to build their own lives. Eugen worked for a forestry conglomerate, Stanley Bostich, for more than 40 years. When not at work, he could be found hunting, his true and real passion. "If he could, my brother would hunt every day...he is a great shot and simply loves the sport," remembers his sister Princess Barbara. "He hunts, travels, spends time with his children...they form a loving family circle, loves the grandchildren as well...can you imagine, his children all married wonderfully, something that doesn't often happen nowadays, and they are all so loving, specially to their old aunt."

Prince Eugen of Liechtenstein at the wedding of his sister Princess Barbara to

Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia.

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Prince Eugen of Liechtenstein at the wedding of his sister Princess Barbara to

Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia.

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Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia and Princess Barbara of Liechtenstein at their civil wedding

in Paris, November 1973. To Princess Barbara's left are Prince Emanuel, Prince Eugen and his father Prince Johannes of Liechtenstein Jr., who is holding a walking stick.

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Of the three siblings of Prince Eugen one remained unmarried, while the younger married: Princess Maria Eleonore was unmarried; Prince Albrecht married morganatically Tamara Nyman, who was created Baroness von Landskron (div. 1971) https://eurohistoryjournal.blogspot.com/2019/06/throw-back-thursday-marriage-in-las.html ; and Barbara, who in 1973 married Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (1924-2016).

Prince Eugen, Princess Barbara, and Prince Albrecht, Moosburg, 2009.

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Prince Michel, Princess Valerie, Prince Dushan, Princess Barbara, Crown Prince Alexander, and Crown Princess Katherine of Yugoslavia; Princess Maria Theresia and Prince Eugen of Liechtenstein; Princess Danica and Prince Philip of Yugoslavia, Topola, Serbia, 2019.

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The Prince In The Rhine: The Tragic End of Friedrich of Prussia (1911-1966)

The Prince In The Rhine: 

The Tragic End of Friedrich of Prussia (1911-1966)

 

German Crown Princess Cecile with her son Prince Friedrich

The Four Princes of Prussia: (left to right) Friedrich, Hubertus, Louis Ferdinand, and Wilhelm

Prince Friedrich of Prussia in 1922

Born at Berlin on 19 December 1911, Prince Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christoph of Prussia was the fourth son and child of German Crown Prince Wilhelm and his wife Cecile (née Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin).

 

Prince Friedrich of Prussia in the 1930s

 

In 1936, Friedrich attended the funeral of King George V, which took place on 28 January. The prince's future brother-in-law, Sir Henry "Chips" Channon, the husband of Lady Honor Guinness, remarked in his diaries: "Fritzi of Prussia looked very handsome in a white uniform, and the King of Rumania [Carol II] look ridiculous as ever." Later that same year, the Channons paid a visit to Germany from August until September. During their stay, Chips and Honor were invited by Friedrich to visit his mother the Crown Princess. Chips recalled this episode in his diary entry of 10 August 1936:

 

Yesterday Fritzy rang up to say that his mother, the Crown Princess, expected us to luncheon today, and we wondered what to wear for this royal engagement. 

I thought that grey flannels would be appropriate for lunch in the country anywhere, but, on the whole, we decided black might be more correct and so black it was, with Harold Balfour and I in our House of Commons uniforms, and Honor beautifully dressed in semi-grand 'dayers.' Cecilienhof, which the Imperial Family thinks looks very English, is a dreadful Lutyens sort of house, ugly and bogus Tudor, built just before the war. That it overlooks a lake is its only consolation. Fritzy met us and led us to the water's edge, where we found Princess Cécile, his second sister, an intelligent, half cross-eyed girl of eighteen, bathing with young Lord Jellicoe. The house itself is very royal with plush, palms, bareness, and faded, signed photographs of dead monarchs. Fritzy showed us his mother's bath-cum-dressing room, which she has fitted up as a yacht, to remind her of Kiel, and we were laughing a little, when the door opened and the Crown Princess walked in, large, smiling, and gracious. 'Thank you so much for all your kindness to my child,' she said to the curtseying Honor. She looked very, very royal, with gold, jingling bracelets, large single pearl earrings, simple clothes and a Fabergé brooch. We filed in to luncheon in a large dining room and Honor was between the two princes, I on the right of the Crown Princess. She is indeed very much a Mecklenburg, that is, dark and rather Russian (she is a double first cousin of my adored Princess Nicholas, whose mother, the Grand Duchess Vladimir, was a Mecklenburg). All the Mecklenburgs have a frivolous outlook and are dark, charming and well-bred. Princess Marina, for instance. They all have a habit of talking in a slightly guttural voice, and their catch phrases are 'poor thing,' 'do you find,' and 'it makes me the impression.'

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland

 

In May 1937, Prince Friedrich attended a ball hosted by the George and Eileen, Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. Again, we turn to Chips Channon, who, as ever, was present and ready to document his impressions of the evening. On 18 May, Chips took to his diary:

 

The Sutherlands' Ball. A dazzling night. Honor looked magnificent with all her sapphires, tiara and a resplendent blue brocade number made to match the Amalienburg and we were hardly dressed and down before the brace of young princelings, Ernst August of Hanover, and Fritzy of Prussia, very young, fair and Nordic and dripping with decorations, arrived almost too punctually. Soon after nine we swept into dinner, and the dining room was a gorgeous, glittering sight of jewels shimmering in the candle-light, of Meissen china, of decorations and splendour. Mrs Grenville was delighted to be next to the young Prince of Prussia and there was great stimmung and excitement. At 10.45 Honor and I with Ernst August, jumped into our car, and armed with a special white card we drove to the Royal entrance - rather to everyone's annoyance, at Hampden House. The Ball was the best spectacle so far of the summer; we were ushered into an improved ballroom hung with tapestries, with, at one end, an enormous dais of red baize where all the Royalties of the earth seemed congregated. We had barely arrived when the King and Queen entered with the Sutherlands. All four were gay, smiling and impressive, and I noticed how both the King and Queen have gained greatly in presence and dignity. They went up to the queue of Royalties and greeted them all, kissing many. The Queen was in white, with an ugly spiked tiara, and she showed no sign of her supposed pregnancy, which I am beginning to doubt. The King followed her, showing his teeth. Queen Mary was in icy blue; soon the ball began. Honor and I were dancing near the dais when we caught Queen Mary's eye, and we stopped to curtsey and bow as she held out her hand. Then Honor and I became separated and I danced with Lady Iveagh. Later I danced with Alice Hofmannsthal, and we went up to the dais to talk to Princess Olga who was wearing her mother's ruby parure. We chatted with her for a few minutes, and as we turned we saw the King and Queen coming up to us, and they very smilingly talked to us. Both Alice and I were thrilled, which was unreasonable as we have both known them for years, and at one time intimately.

Friedrich's father German Crown Prince Wilhelm with Adolf Hitler

 

Two years passed before Chips Channon mentions Friedrich of Prussia again in his diary. On this occasion, the United Kingdom was bracing for the possibility of armed conflict with the Third Reich. Chips confided the contents of this meeting with his friend, which took place on 15 April 1939 at Kelvedon: 

 

Fritzi of Prussia, who is staying here told me today that Hitler dined quietly some years ago at Cecilienhof with his parents, and that he had sat on a sofa after dinner, and had solemnly declared that it was his intention of restoring the German Monarchy directly he could. They believed him, and indeed perhaps he meant it, at the time. Perhaps he meant it altogether. Fritzi also told me that he had no intention of fighting for the Nazis, whose régime he thinks not only repugnant but doomed.

Friedrich of Prussia

 

Prince Friedrich was true to his word that he would not take up arms for the Nazis, in the way that his eldest brother Prince Wilhelm ended up doing and, as a result, being killed in action in May 1940. Instead, Friedrich was studying at Cambridge, living incognito as the Count von Lingen, when war broke out in September 1939. The prince was arrested and interned in May 1940. Friedrich was held in England for several months, then sent to internment camps near Quebec City and soon afterwards, Farnham, Quebec. In both camps, he was elected camp leader by fellow inmates.

 

 

 

In December 1944, Prince Friedrich became engaged to Lady Brigid Guinness (1920-1995), the daughter of Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh, and his wife Lady Gwendolen Onslow. He shared this news with his old friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law, Chips. Naturally, Channon went on to document the exchange in his diary:

 

Fritzi of Prussia came to see me, and told me of his engagement to my sister-in-law Brigid [Guinness]: I am entranced, and was so moved that in a sad flash I remembered the days when we were all so happy, and did not know it. 

Prince Friedrich of Prussia and Lady Brigid Guinness after their wedding

 

On 30 July 1945 at Little Hadham, East Hertfordshire, Prince Friedrich of Prussia married Lady Brigid Katharine Rachel Guinness. Described as "tall and flaxen-haired," the groom was thirty-three, and the bride turned twenty-five on her wedding day. The couple were united in a very simple ceremony: they had known one another since the late 1930s.

 

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Prince Friedrich and Princess Brigid went on to have five children: Prince Nicholas (b.1946), Prince Andreas (b.1947), Princess Victoria Marina (b.1952), and then the twins Prince Rupert and Princess Antonia (b.1955). In October 1947, Friedrich renounced his German citizenship and acquired British nationality under the Sophia Naturalisation Act of 1705: he henceforth was legally Friedrich von Preussen. 

 

Brigid and Friedrich of Prussia

 

Over time, the marriage of Friedrich and Brigid deteriorated. By the mid-1960s, their marital union existed in name only. Brigid was living with Major Anthony Patrick Ness, whom she would eventually marry. 

 

Prince Friedrich of Prussia

On Tuesday, 19 April 1966, Prince Friedrich went missing in Germany. He had been staying at his residence at Reinhartshausen Castle in Erbach. The first reports of the missing prince hit the international press on Saturday, 23 April. It was at this stage that Interpol had been asked to aid in his search. A Canadian paper wrote: "Hermann Mumm, chief commissioner of the Wiesbaden state police, said today an alert was circulated throughout West Germany after a local search failed to turn up any trace of the 54-year-old prince. The prince is believed the have taken an after-dinner stroll along the Rhine River near his Erbach hotel. When he failed to show up Wednesday morning, hotel employees called police."

 

 

The wedding of Duke Carl Gregor and Princess Maria Margarethe of Hohenzollern takes place as planned

 

The next day, an update was released. In order to find the prince, "helicopters, bloodhounds and scores of police today searched the Rhine Valley...the mystery of his disappearance shadowed one of Germany's rare royal weddings. Duke Carl Gregor of Mecklenburg, 32, and Princess Maria Margarete Von Hohenzollern, 37, were married [yesterday] at Hechingen as scheduled." Louis Ferdinand, Friedrich's older brother, had been scheduled to attend their cousin Maria Margarethe's wedding along with his wife Kira; however, in view of the situation, Louis Ferdinand did not go and worked to head up the search efforts. 

 

Article from the Philadelphia Inquirer that appeared on 27 April 1966

As days passed, the police had to abandon their search of the Rhine Valley. The case was turned over to detectives. It emerged that Friedrich was aware that he was going to be the subject of a divorce action brought by Brigid, which was supposed to take place in May - this was confirmed by Princess Kira. The same day that this news emerged, Prince Louis Ferdinand issued an optimistic statement about his younger brother, saying, "My feelings tell me he is still alive." In light of events, Princess Brigid and her eighteen-year-old son Prince Andreas traveled from England to Erbach - it was noted that Brigid refused to speak to the press. Although they had found several pages from Friedrich's chequebook along a path near the Rhine, and had dragged the Rhine River itself to find a body, police stated that they had no reason to believe that the prince's disappearance was due to a crime or suicide. The police stated "that investigators will now restrict themselves to following up any tips they receive."

 

Princess Antoinette of Croÿ, the last person to speak to Friedrich, seemingly disappears

Princess Antoinette of Croÿ (1915-2011)

 

On Saturday, 30 April, eleven days after he went missing, it was reported that Prince Friedrich of Prussia had visited Frankfurt's police headquarters to register as a resident earlier on the very day that he later disappeared. Further, it came to light that Princess Antoinette of Croÿ (1915-2011), who was the last person to speak to Friedrich on the phone on 19 April, had also apparently vanished; although, it must be said, that the princess' housekeeper stated that "she [Antoinette] simply went on vacation," which was likely the case, as the princess later returned from wherever she went. Before she left, Antoinette had told the Hohenzollern family that Friedrich had mentioned nothing to indicate what was to come during their telephone call, and that the pair had agreed to meet during the weekend - at which time the prince did not show up. The papers also learned that the divorce action between Friedrich and Brigid of Prussia was supposed to be heard by a Frankfurt court on Tuesday, 3 May; however, given the circumstances, it was confirmed that the case would be delayed if the prince was not found before then.

 

 

 

 

Finally, on Monday, 2 May 1966, the case of the missing Prussian prince was solved. Friedrich's body had been found on Sunday, 1 May, in the Rhine River. In the Calgary Herald, a report was filed by the Associated Press from Bingen, West Germany:

 

Police announced Sunday they have found the body of Prince Friedrich of Prussia, grandson of Germany's last kaiser, who had been missing since April 19. 

They said the body was recovered from the Rhine River near this town 18 miles downstream from the Reinhartshausen Schloss Hotel where he vanished on a midnight walk. The prince owned the hotel, a converted castle only 50 yards from the edge of the river at Erbach. 

SUICIDE POSSIBLE 

Chief Prosecutor Hans Klein, in charge of the investigation, said the situation "appears to indicate suicide but there is no definite evidence. The official cause of death has yet to be determined."  

The 54-year-old prince, who had lived in England for most of the last 30 years, is survived by his wife Lady Brigid Guinness, and five children. 

Last week, the chief investigator in the search for the prince said it had been confirmed that divorce proceedings to end the prince's 20-year marriage to the Guinness brewery heiress were pending in Frankfurt. The first hearing was to have been held Tuesday in a West German court. 

KNEW ABOUT WORRY 

Prince Louis Ferdinand, oldest brother of the dead prince and chief of the house of Hohenzollern, was informed of the death. He said in a statement last week he knew his brother "was deeply concerned about something about which I and various family members of the family will give no information. It concerns a circumstance from which suicide appears to be excluded." 

Discovery of the body came after police search had been broken off. For more than a week, scores of police, supported by helicopters, had combed the woods surrounding the hotel. 

FOUND BY PILOTS 

Three pilots operating boats between here and Lorelei Rock discovered the body, which was fully dressed. Gold cuff links, bearing the crown of Prussia with the prince's initials, provided the first hint as to the identity. 

Friedrich George Wilhelm Christoph, prince of Prussia, was the son of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and a great-great grandson of Queen Victoria.

 

In the late evening on the day when her husband's body was found, a statement was issued by Brigid of Prussia from London which read, quite simply: "The divorce proceedings that were pending between the late Prince Friedrich of Prussia and his wife were on the grounds of incompatibility alone." Articles from that same day reported that Friedrich had resumed usage of his princely title [which he had initially discontinued upon becoming a British subject] in 1951 and reacquired German nationality in 1953. A source close to the Prussian royal family stated that "Friedrich had been in an state of utter despair" over the imminent breakup of his marriage; family friends were also quoted as saying that the prince "had pushed off divorce for years for the sake of the children." Prince Louis Ferdinand confirmed that his younger brother had been suffering from acute depression.

 

 

A Luthern memorial service for Prince Friedrich of Prussia was held on Wednesday, 4 May, at the chapel in Erbach. It was attended by his widow, Brigid, and by other members of the Prussian royal family. The prince was buried at Hohenzollern Castle.

 

Anthony Patrick Ness in his youth

 

On 6 June 1967 at Old Windsor, Princess Brigid of Prussia (née Guinness) took as her second husband Major Anthony Patrick Ness (1914-1993). A widower, Anthony Ness had wed in July 1946 Patricia Hyacinth Lydekker (1916-1966; formerly the wife of André Jean Robert Janssen). Brigid and Anthony remained married until Anthony's death in 1993. Lady Brigid Ness, as she was then known, died on 8 March 1995 at the age of seventy-four. 

The Christenings of the Children of France: From 1932 to the Present

The Christenings of the Children of France: 

From 1932 to the Present

Part I: The Family of Prince Henri and Princess Isabelle d'Orléans, the Count and Countess of Paris, who were married at Palermo on 8 April 1931

Being the christenings of the twelve children of TRH Prince Henri and Princess Isabelle d'Orléans, the late Count and Countess of Paris.

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HRH Princess Isabelle Marie Laure Victoire d'Orléans; born at the Manoir d'Anjou at Woluwé-Saint-Pierre, Belgium, on 8 April 1932; christened by Monseigneur Harscouët, Bishop of Chartres, at the Manoir d'Anjou on 16 May 1932.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HRH Prince Jean d'Orléans, Duke of Guise
- HRH Princess Elisabeth of Orléans and Bragança (née Countess Dobrensky von Dobrzenicz)

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HRH Prince Henri Philippe Pierre Marie d'Orléans, firstly titled Count of Clermont, then as Count of Paris; born at the Manoir d'Anjou at Woluwé-Saint-Pierre, Belgium, on 14 June 1933; christened by Monseigneur Harscouët, Bishop of Chartres, at the Manoir d'Anjou on 5 July 1933. Prince Henri died at Paris on 21 January 2019.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HI&RH Prince Pedro d'Alcântara of Orléans and Bragança
- HRH Princess Isabelle d'Orléans, Duchess of Guise (née Orléans)

HRH Princess Hélène-Astrid Léopoldine Marie d'Orléans; born at the Manoir d'Anjou at Woluwé-Saint-Pierre, Belgium, on 7 September 1934; christened by Monseigneur Harscouët, Bishop of Chartres, at the Manoir d'Anjou on 14 October 1934.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HM King Léopold III of the Belgians
- HM Queen Astrid of the Belgians (née Sweden)

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HRH Prince François Gaston Michel Marie d'Orléans, posthumously titled Duke of Orléans; born at the Manoir d'Anjou at Woluwé-Saint-Pierre, Belgium, on 15 August 1935; christened by Monseigneur Van der Cruis at the Manoir d'Anjou on 25 August 1935. Prince François was killed in action at Taourirt, Algeria, on 11 October 1960.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HRH Prince Pedro of Orléans and Bragança
- HRH Princess Françoise of Greece and Denmark (née Orléans)

HRH Princess Anne Marguerite Brigitte Marie d'Orléans; born at the Manoir d'Anjou at Woluwé-Saint-Pierre, Belgium, on 4 December 1938; christened by Monseigneur Harscouët, Bishop of Chartres, at the Manoir d'Anjou on 23 January 1939.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HRH Prince Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta (absent; represented by HRH Prince Pedro of Orléans and Bragança)
- Countess Anna Dobrensky von Dobrzenicz

HRH Princess Diane Françoise Maria da Glória d'Orléans; born at Petrópolis, Brazil, on 24 March 1940; christened at the Nossa Senhora da Glória Church in Rio de Janeiro on 13 May 1940.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HRH Prince João of Orléans and Bragança
- HRH Princess Francisca of Orléans and Bragança (later Duchess of Bragança)

HRH Prince Michel Joseph Benoît Marie d'Orléans, titled Count d'Évreux; born at Rabat, Morocco,  on 25 June 1941; christened by Monseigneur Lefèvre, Bishop of Rabat, at the Cathedral of Rabat on 27 July 1941.
For whom stood as godparents:
- Monsieur Louis Peyret
- Madame Plumier

HRH Prince Jacques Jean Jaroslaw Marie d'Orléans, titled Duke of Orléans; born at Rabat, Morocco,  on 25 June 1941; christened by Monseigneur Lefèvre, Bishop of Rabat, at the Cathedral of Rabat on 27 July 1941.
For whom stood as godparents:
- Monsieur Paul Armbruster on behalf of the Farmers of France (who were all considered godfathers of the young prince)
- Madame Maria Père

HRH Princess Claude Marie Agnès Catherine d'Orléans; born at Larache, Morocco, on 11 December 1943; christened at the Church of Larache on 6 January 1944.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HRH Infante Juan of Spain, Count of Barcelona
- HRH Infanta María de las Mercedes of Spain, Countess of Barcelona (absent, as well as her husband, and represented by the Duchess of Guise)
- HRH Prince Henri d'Orléans, Count of Clermont (later Count of Paris)

HRH Princess Jeanne de Chantal Alice Clotilde Marie d'Orléans; born at Pamplona, Spain, on 9 January 1946; christened at the Church of Saint-Nicolas de Pampelune on 21 January 1946.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HRH Infante Alfonso of Spain, Prince of The Two Sicilies (represented by the Count de Rodezno)
- HRH Infanta Alicia of Spain, Princess of The Two Sicilies (née Bourbon-Parma; represented by the Countess de Guendulaine)

HRH Prince Thibaut Louis Denis Humbert Marie d'Orléans, titled Count of La Marche; born at the "Quinta do Ajinho" at Cintra, Portugal, on 20 January 1948; christened by Don Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, Patriarch of Lisbon, at the chapel of the "Quinta do Ajinho" at Cintra in February 1948.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HM King Umberto II of Italy
- HM Queen Marie Amélie of Portugal (née Orléans; represented by her sister the Duchess of Guise)

Part II: The Family of Prince Henri and Princess Marie-Thérèse d'Orléans, the Count and Countess of Clermont, who were married at Dreux on 5 July 1957. The couple were civilly divorced in 1984 and received a religious annulment in 2008

Being the christenings of the five children of TRH Prince Henri and Princess Marie-Thérèse d'Orléans, the Count and Countess of Clermont, the future Count of Paris and Duchess of Montpensier.

HRH Princess Marie Isabelle Marguerite Anne Geneviève d'Orléans; born at Boulogne-sur-Seine on 3 January 1959; christened by HE Cardinal Feltin at the Chapel of the Archbishop of Paris on 20 January 1959.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HRH Duke Philipp of Württemberg
- HRH Princess Isabelle d'Orléans, Countess of Paris (née Orléans and Bragança)

HRH Prince François Henri Louis Marie d'Orléans, titled Count of Clermont; born at Boulogne-sur-Seine on 7 February 1961; christened by Father Peter Sterkl at the Royal Chapel of Saint Louis at Dreux on 4 March 1961. Prince François died on 31 December 2017.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HRH Prince Henri d'Orléans, Count of Paris
- HI&RH Duchess Rosa of Württemberg (née Austria-Tuscany)

HRH Princess Blanche Elisabeth Rose Marie d'Orléans; born at Ravensburg, West Germany, on 10 September 1962; christened at the chapel of the military chaplaincy of Weingarten on 15 September 1962.
For whom stood as godparents:
- Monsieur Michel Coulanges
- HRH Princess Elisabeth of The Two Sicilies (née Württemberg)

HRH Prince Jean Carl Pierre Marie d'Orléans, firstly titled Duke of Vendôme, then as Count of Paris; born at Boulogne-sur-Seine on 19 May 1964; christened at the Royal Chapel of Saint Louis at Dreux on 14 June 1964.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HRH Duke Carl of Württemberg
- HRH Princess Chantal d'Orléans, Baroness François-Xavier de Sambucy de Sorgue

HRH Prince Eudes Thibaut Joseph Marie d'Orléans, titled Duke of Angoulême; born at Paris on 18 March 1968; christened at the Royal Chapel of Saint Louis at Dreux on 30 March 1968.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HRH Prince Thibaut d'Orléans, Count of La Marche
- Madame Jacques Bemberg (née Patricia Brian)

 

Part III: The Family of Prince Jean and Princess Philomena d'Orléans, the Count and Countess of Paris, who were married civilly at Paris on 19 March 2009 and religious wed at Senlis on 2 May 2009
Being the christenings of the five children of TRH Prince Jean and Princess Philomena d'Orléans, the Count and Countess of Paris.

 

 

HRH Prince Gaston Louis Antoine Marie d'Orléans; born at Paris on 19 November 2009; christened at the église Sainte-Clotilde in Paris on 8 December 2009.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HRH Prince Carlo of the Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro
- HRH Prince Eudes d'Orléans, Duke of Angoulême
- Count François-Pierre de Feydeau
- HI&RH Princess Astrid of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria
- Mercedes Baptista de Ybarra, Countess de El Abra
- Countess Jean de Haussonville (née Maria Magdalena de Tornos)

 

HRH Princess Antoinette Léopoldine Jeanne Marie d'Orléans; born at Vienna on 28 January 2012; christened by Cardinal Schönborn at St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna on 11 February 2012.
For whom stood as godparents:
- Hereditary Count Damian von Schönborn-Buchheim
- don David de Tornos
- Mr Leopoldo Gavito
- HSH Princess Leopoldine of Liechtenstein
- Baroness Dominique Bourgnon de Layre (née Countess Ladislaja von Nostitz-Rieneck)
- doña Francesca Lopez de la Osa

 

HRH Princess Louise-Marguerite Eléonore Marie d'Orléans; born at Poissy on 30 July 2014; christened by Father Jean-Marie Lioult at the église Saint-Pierre in Dreux on 31 August 2014.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HI&RH Archduke Michael of Austria
- HRH Prince Alvaro de Orleans-Bourbon
- The Duke de Luynes
- HRH Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg (née Weiller)
- HSH Princess Margarete of Liechtenstein
- Mrs William Berry (née Eleonore de Pourtalès)

 

HRH Prince Joseph Gabriel David Marie d'Orléans; born at Dreux on 2 June 2016; christened by Father Jean-Marie Lioult at the église Saint-Pierre in Dreux on 26 June 2016.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HRH Infante Afonso of Portugal, Prince of Beira
- HSH Prince Johann Wenzel of Liechtenstein
- Bénédict du Cassé
- HRH Princess Marie-Liesse d'Orléans, Duchess of Angoulême (née de Rohan-Chabot)
- HSH Princess Tilsim of Liechtenstein (née Tanberk), who was absent and represented by her mother-in-law Princess Isabelle of Liechtenstein (née de l'Arbre de Malander)
- Mrs Kildine Stevenson (née de Sambucy de Sorgue), who was absent due to the illness of her newborn daughter

 

HRH Princess Jacinthe Élisabeth-Charlotte Marie d'Orléans; born at Dreux on 9 October 2018; christened by Father Christophe Berneir at the église Saint-Pierre in Dreux on 13 October 2018.
For whom stood as godparents:
- HRH Prince Charles-Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Anjou
- HRH Prince Pierre d'Orléans
- Count Hervé de Solages
- HSH Princess Maria-Immaculata of Liechtenstein
- HSH Princess and Duchess Silvia of Arenberg (née de Castellane)
- The Dowager Duchess de Gramont (née Catherine Forget)