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Dear Subscribers and Friends,

 

As we await the arrival from our printer of Issue CXXVI (Summer 2020), we are about to send to them Issue CXXVII  (Fall 2020), Volume 23.3!

 

You will be happy to know that as we are in-between book projects, we decided too get all the magazines for 2020 finished, Fall and Winter will be ahead of schedule!

 

Inside EUROHISTORY – Fall 2020, Issue CXXVII subscribers will find the following articles:

 

 

1. Aunt Miechen – Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna Sr., by Coryne Hall.

 

2. The Diamond Duke – Duke Karl II of Brunswick and Lüneburg, by Gert-Juergen Frisch.

 

3. Who Is In the Photograph: The 80th Birthday of Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, by Ilana D. Miller.

 

4. Crown Prince Carol in Ceylon, India, and Burma, by Alexander Borg.

 

5. The Tenuta Reale (Part 2): A Grand Villa in Tuscany for Two Remarkable Infantas of Spain, by Ricardo Mateos Saínz de Medrano.

 

6. The 60th Wedding Anniversary of Duke Carl and Duchess Diane of Württemberg, by Arturo E. Beéche, Publisher

 

7. Obituary: "The Red Princes" – Princess Marie-Thérèse of Bourbon-Parma (1933-2020), by Seth B. Leonard.

 

8. Royal News.

 

 

 

 

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The Birth of Princess Geraldine of Albania

 

HRH Princess Geraldine of Albania was born at 09:30 on Thursday, 22 October, at the Queen Geraldine Maternity Hospital in Tirana. The princess is the first child of Crown Prince Leka and Crown Princess Elia of the Albanians. Both mother and child are doing well.

Princess Geraldine is named for her paternal great-grandmother, Queen Geraldine of Albania (1915-2002; née Countess Apponyi de Nagy-Appony), the wife of King Zog I of Albania. Indeed, Princess Geraldine was born exactly eighteen years after the death of Queen Geraldine, who passed away at Tirana on 22 October 2002.

The princess is the first member of the royal family to be born in Albania since the birth of her grandfather, King Leka I of the Albanians, in 1939.

Congratulations to the Crown Princely Couple! 

Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia's 1938 Essay About Her Wedding Gown

Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia and Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia
Photograph (c) Royal Collection Trust

 

 

by Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia

1938, Potsdam, Germany

My wedding dress is a family heirloom. It belonged to my grandmother, the Duchess of Edinburgh, and later Duchess of Coburg, who was an only daughter of Emperor Alexander II.

It came from her own country, from Russia, where it was made for her and where she wore it as a Russian grand duchess.

It is an old court dress of heavy silver brocade richly embroidered, cut low off the shoulders, very slim at the waist; the long sleeves slit open so that the arms are free.

The heavy train hangs from the waist and is three meters long.

The gorgeous embroidery was made by nuns in a convent famous for its exquisite needlework.

This dress, perhaps (and I think surely) the only example of its kind left, is now nearly 100 years old.

It lay for many years without coming to the light of day. The first time it was worn again after the war and revolution was 12 years ago when my sister, Grand Duchess Marie, Princess of Leiningen, was married in it. Now it is to be worn once more; hardly any alterations or touches were necessary to make it fit.

The Russian national headdress, the famous kokoshnik, goes with it, or a diadem, and a long lace veil and silver low heeled shoes. 

No modern dress could equal this one in beauty of style or material. It is something unique, belonging to golden days of the past, the past of a great and rich country which supplied the world with so many things of beauty. 

Prince Charles and Princess Catherine: The Napoléon Twins Turn Seventy

Prince Louis and Princess Alix Napoléon with the twins.

 

On 19 October 1950, Prince Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Napoléon and Princess Catherine Elisabeth Albérique Marie Napoléon were born at Boulogne-sur-Seine. 

 

The first twins in the Bonaparte dynasty.

 

The twins were the children of Prince Louis Napoléon (1914-1997), son of Prince Victor Napoléon and Princess Clémentine of Belgium, and Princess Alix (b.1926; née de Foresta), who married in 1949. Charles and Catherine were the first, and so far only, set of twins born into the French Imperial House. 

 

The baptism of the Bonaparte twins at Les Invalides.

The prince and princess were baptised at the Invalides. Monsignor Roncalli, later Pope John XXIII, officiated over the ceremony. Prince Charles Napoléon wore the baptismal robe of the King of Rome while Princess Catherine Napoléon wore the baptismal robe of the Prince Imperial. The godfather  of Prince Charles Napoléon was Prince Charles of Belgium, Count of Flanders. The godparents of Princess Catherine Napoléon were Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians and Count Alberic de Foresta.

 

The Prince and Princess Napoléon with their children in 1962.

 

Charles and Catherine were eventually joined by two siblings: Princess Laure (b.1952) and Prince Jérôme (b.1957). 

King Albert II Reacts to Meeting Between King Philippe and Princess Delphine

Today, HM King Albert II issued a communiqué on the topic of the meeting between two of his children, HM The King of the Belgians and HRH Princess Delphine of Belgium. Last Friday, brother and sister met at Laeken Castle and connected over the course of a three-hour lunch. More meetings are planned in the future, which will likely include the Queen and James O’Hare, as well as the children of both couples.

Message from His Majesty King Albert II: I fully endorse the press release by the King and Princess Delphine and agree with the rationale behind this message. My wife and I are delighted with the initiative of the King, the start of better times for all of us and in particular for Delphine.

Albert 

The news of the meeting between Philippe and Delphine was made public yesterday. Later on Thursday, when reached for comment, Prince Laurent told Belgian royal reporter Wim Dehandschutter that “Delphine can count on me.”

Eurohistory, Issue CXXVI – Summer 2020, Volume 23.2

 

 

Greetings subscribers and EUROHISTORY readers,

We are delighted to announce that Issue CXXVI – Summer 2020, Volume 23.2 is going to the printer!

Inside the magazine, subscribers will find a varied number of expertly researched articles. These include the following:

1. Who Is In the Photograph: The Battenberg Family, (c. 1895) – by Ilana D. Miller

2. The Viking's Bride – Crown Princess Margareta of Sweden, by Coryne Hall

3. Agnes – The First American Princess, by Shelby Morrison

4. "Don't think of coming back... Empress Eugénie and the Demise of the Second Empire," by Arturo E. Beéche, Publisher

5. The Tenuta Reale – A Grand Villa in Tuscany for Two Remarkable Infantas of Spain, by Ricardo Mateos Saínz de Medrano

6. Book Reviews

7. Royal News

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King Philippe of the Belgians Meets His Sister Princess Delphine

His Majesty the King and his sister Princess Delphine

📷 Koninklijk Paleis / Palais Royal

Some heartening news from the Royal Court in Brussels: King Philippe and his half-sister Princess Delphine met one another for the first time over a three-hour lunch last Friday at Laeken Castle.

Joint communication of the King and Princess Delphine: On Friday, 9 October, we met each other for the first time at the Castle of Laeken. It was a warm encounter. This long and rich discussion gave us the opportunity to learn to know each other. We talked about our respective lives and areas of shared interest. This bond will further develop within the family setting. Philippe & Delphine