A Future Duchess of Alba Is on the Way: The Duke and Duchess of Huéscar Expect Their First Child

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The Duke and Duchess of Huéscar are expecting their first child: a daughter. The Duke of Huéscar is the eldest son of the Duke of Alba.

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The Duke of Huéscar is Fernando Fitz-James Stuart y Solís (b.1990). Fernando is the son of Carlos Martinez de Irujo y Fitzjames-Stuart, Duke of Alba, and Matilda de Solis y Martinez de Campos. Fernando is the paternal grandson of Cayetana, Duchess of Alba, and her first husband Pedro Luis Martinez de Irujo. Fernando is the maternal grandson of Fernando de Solís-Beaumont y Atienza, Marqués de la Motilla, and María Isabel Martínez de Campos y Rodríguez de la Boeta.

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The Duchess of Huéscar is Sofía Palazuelo Barroso. Sofía is the daughter of Fernando Palazuelo Baldasúa and Sofía Barroso Fernández de Araoz.

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Fernando and Sofía were married at the Palacio de Liria in Madrid on 6 October 2018. The couple's wedding was attended by Queen Sofía of Spain, King Simeon and Queen Margarita of Bulgaria, and Princess Anne of The Two Sicilies, Dowager Duchess of Calabria.

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Cayetana, the (late) great-grandmother of the baby-to-be, was the most well known Spanish aristocrat of her time. The Duchess of Alba lived a colourful and full life. She would surely be over the moon with this happy announcement from her grandson and granddaughter.

Fernando, Duke of Huéscar, is a descendant of James FitzJames, Duke of Berwick, Duke of Liria and Jérica, and Duke of Fitz-James. James FitzJames was the illegitimate son of King James II of England and Arabella Churchill.

Prince Antônio of Brazil Is Discharged From Hospital After Coronavirus Treatment

Prince Antônio being discharged from hospital on 11 April 2020
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Prince Antônio of Brazil has been discharged from hospital after his recovery from the coronavirus. Antônio, who is sixty-nine years-old, is the brother of the head of the Brazilian imperial family, Prince Luiz. He is a son of Prince Pedro Henrique of Brazil and Princess Maria of Bavaria. 

 

Three weeks ago, Dom Antônio was admitted to the São José Hospital in Rio de Janeiro. Since that time, Antônio has been attended to by his wife, Princess Christine, and his son, Prince Rafael. Along with three brothers and two sisters-in-law, Antônio contracted the coronavirus while attending an engagement party for one of his nephews. Of the five members who had COVID-19, the prince experienced the most severe symptoms and eventually came done with pneumonia as a result. 

 

 

Antônio's brother Prince Bertrand released a message on Friday to inform the public that Antônio was about to go home. Once it was known that Antônio was to leave hospital on Saturday, the imperial family had words of praise for the medical workers who had taken care of their brother: "We thank you for the professionalism and attention of the whole team of doctors and nurses who took care of His Highness."

 

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Coronavírus: Dom Antonio está prestes a receber alta

The Eighty-Fifth Birthday of Princess Cecilie of Bourbon-Parma, Aunt of the Duke of Parma

Princess Cécile of Bourbon-Parma

On 12 April 1935, Princess Cécile Marie Antoinette Madeleine Jeanne Agnès Françoise of Bourbon-Parma was born at Paris. The princess was the fourth child and third daughter of Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma and Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset. Cécile joined two older sisters and an older brother: Françoise (b.1928), Carlos Hugo (1930-2010), and Marie-Thérèse (1933-2020). The princess was followed by two younger siblings: Marie-des-Neiges (b.1937) and Sixte-Henri (b.1940). Cécile studied in Paris and Munich. She eventually obtained her pilot's license.

1955: Princess Cécile at her first ball at the Ritz in Paris.
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Between 1968-1970, Princess Cécile participated in humanitarian efforts to bring supplies to the inhabitants of Biafra. The Republic of Biafra was a short-lived nation in West Africa, a "break-away" region in Nigeria, that existed from May 1967 to January 1970. In 1969, most of Cécile's family was expelled from Spain due their Carlist ties: only the princess (owing to her charity work in Biafra) and her sister-in-law Princess Irene of the Netherlands were excluded from the order. In early 1970, Cécile was in Washington, DC, to lobby on behalf to the people of Biafra. She stated: "The need is so great. So many people are dying in terrible conditions. In two weeks it will be too late." In 1971, the princess was finally ordered to leave Spain due to her connections with the Carlist movement. From Madrid, Cécile was put on a flight to Paris, where she arrived aboard an Iberian Airlines plane, to which she had been escorted by plainclothes Spanish policemen.

 

(left to right): Princess Marie-des-Neiges, Princess Marie-Thérèse, and Princess Cécile of Bourbon-Parma.
Photographed at the christening of their grand-nephew Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Parma in 2016.
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Thereafter, the princess made her home in the French capital. Recently, for some years, she had been living with her sisters Marie-Thérèse and Marie-des-Neiges. In 2014, Cécile was named as a godmother of her grand-niece Princess Cecilia of Bourbon-Parma (b.2013), the daughter of Duke Carlos and Duchess Annemarie of Parma. In 2016, the princess and her two closest sisters attended the christening of their grand-nephew Carlos, the eventual heir to the Ducal House of Parma.

 

Princess Cécile of Bourbon-Parma with Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark

 

Last month, Cécile lost her sister Marie-Thérèse to complications from the coronavirus. Maria Teresa, as she was known in Carlist circles, had come down with COVID-19 from interactions with the nurse who was looking after Marie-Thérèse, Cécile, and Marie-des-Neiges. Along with her sisters Françoise and Marie-des-Neiges, Cécile is among the last surviving children of Duke Xavier of Parma.

 

Princess Cécile at a Carlist event.

 

We wish Princess Cécile many happy returns and the best of health!

 

Duke Xavier and Duchess Madeleine of Parma with their sons and three youngest daughters.

EUROHISTORY: The Grand Ducal House of Hesse (Summer 2020)

For several years, Arturo E. Beéche and Ilana D. Miller have collaborated on yet another royal history project. Their previous collaborations include several books, among them: The Four Graces (by Ilana D. Miller), and Royal Gatherings I and Royal Gatherings II (by Arturo E. Beéche and Ilana D. Miller). She remains a regular contributor to EUROHISTORY, the royalty journal published by Mr. Beéche since 1997!

This time, these two well-known authors bring us to the Grand Ducal House of Hesse, the descendants of the Hesse and by Rhine (Hesse-Darmstadt) branch of the Hessian dynasty!

 

As the book's text is completed, revised, and edited, layout work has started. The book's cover is presented to you here... 

 

 

 

 

Inside, readers will not only find an incredible array of rare photographic jewels, but also an engaging narrative that brings alive one of the most beloved dynasties of the European Gotha.

 

With research conducted across Europe, including royalty who knew the last members of the dynasty before its extinction, this latest EUROHISTORY book promises to be a "must-have" for all royalty enthusiasts!

 

The chapters include:

 

1. The Ancient House of Hesse – From Medieval to Reformation Hesse: 1264-1567

 

2. The Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt: 1567-1790

 

3. A New Grand Duchy: 1806-1848

 

4. Grand Duke Ludwig IV and his Siblings: 1848-1877

 

5. Darmstadt and Windsor: Ludwig IV and the English Connection

 

6. The Battenbergs – Prince Alexander and his lady

 

7. The Greek-Battenberg Alliance – The Royal House of Greece: Alice and Andreas

 

8. Russian Turmoil and Pre-Sarajevo Days – The Great War and the Mountbattens

 

9. The Next Generation Settles Down (1920-1940): The Greek Princesses, Don & Lu, the Mountbattens – Joys and Tragedies

 

10. The Mountbatten-Windsor Connection: A Greek Prince in England and the Milfor Havens

 

11. The End of a Long Line: Lu and Peg After Steene

 

12. The Women of Darmstadt

 

13. Epilogue

 

 

We expect to have the book ready for sale in Summer 2020...further announcement regarding this amazing collaboration will come in June 2020.

 

 

EUROHISTORY: Issue CXXV, Spring 2020, Volume 23.1 Announcement

Hello dear subscribers and readers,


Since I finished all 2019 pending issues last week (they await business resuming in California so we can have them printed), I decided to continue working on the magazine.

The end result is that I have Issue CXXV, Spring 2020 ready to print. This issue will be mailed to subscribers once we receive renewals for this current year, our 23rd year in publication!

We are deeply thankful to our loyal readers. Subscribers' numbers remain steady and we are in NO danger of not publishing into 2021 and beyond. EUROHISTORY remains vibrant, receiving great article submissions, and still read by subscribers in five continents and over 60 countries!

Of course, we are always welcoming new subscribers, as well as previous subscribers who wish to return. The more the merrier!

Now that shelter-in-place orders have kept me home-bound for the last month, I was able to dedicate the time needed to finish the pending issues of 2019 and position EUROHISTORY for a productive year in 2020!

News on our next book will follow soon in a separate post!

Inside Issue CXXV, readers will find the following articles:

1. Who Is in the Photo: Coburgs, Hesse and by Rhine, and Romanians at Tsar Nicholas II's Coronation in 1896, by Ilana D. Miller.

2. The Emirs of Bokhara, by Alex Borg.

3. Castles and Palaces of the House of Württemberg, by Susan Symons.

4. The Marriage of the Heiress to the Russian Throne, by Seth B. Leonard.

5. Obituary: Infanta Pilar of Spain (1936-2020), by Arturo E. Beéche.

6. Book Reviews, by Coryne Hall.

7. Royal News

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A New Bourbon Is Born

Note: Many thanks to our dear friend Hein Bruins, of Hein's Royal Genealogy Page, who kindly informed us of the birth of this newest descendant of Duke Roberto I of Parma and Piacenza!

Tristan de Bourbon Parme and his wife Shira Szabo have welcomed the birth of their first son, who has been named Imri. Imri de Bourbon Parme was born at London yesterday. The name Imri is Hebrew in origin; Imri is the name of two men in the Torah and Bible. The first Imri was a son of Bani, of the tribe of Judah (1 Chronicles 9:4). The second Imri was the father of Zaccur, who assisted Nehemiah in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 3:2).

Tristan de Bourbon-Parme (b.1974) is the son of Prince Rémy of Bourbon-Parma and his first wife Laurence Dufresne. Tristan is a grandson of Prince Louis (Luigi) of Bourbon-Parma and Princess Maria of Savoy. Tristan's paternal great-grandparents are Duke Roberto I of Parma and Piacenza and his second wife Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal as well as King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy and Princess Elena of Montenegro.

 

Shira Szabo (b.1979) is the daughter of Mendi Szabo and his wife Betty Goldman. Tristan and Shira were married in August 2010. The couple's first child, a daughter named Talma, was in 2012. 

Prince Luíz of Brazil Gives Update On Family: Six Members Contracted COVID-19; All On The Mend

On Wednesday, 1 April, Prince Luíz of Brazil issued a message to supporters of the Brazilian monarchist movement. Luíz is the Head of the Imperial House of Brazil. The prince, who is eighty-one, lives in São Paolo. In his address, Luíz gave an update on the condition of certain members of his family. Adding to previously known information, the prince made it known that four of his brothers and two of his sisters-in-law had been diagnosed with the coronavirus. Previously, news reports had only stated that three of his brothers and one of their spouses were affected. The Brazilian royals who contracted COVID-19 are as follows:

• Prince Pedro de Alcântara of Orléans-Bragança (b.1945)
• Princess Maria da Fátima of Orléans-Bragança (b.1952; wife of the above)
• Prince Antônio of Brazil (b.1950)
• Prince Francisco of Orléans-Bragança (b.1955)
• Prince Alberto of Orléans-Bragança (b.1957)
• Princess Maritza of Orléans-Bragança (b.1961; wife of the above)

It is believed that the family members affected by the virus were exposed at an engagement party held to celebrate the eventual marriage of Alberto and Maritza's son Pedro Alberto. 

In his statement, Prince Luíz emphasised that he wanted all Brazilian monarchist activities and gatherings to be postponed for the immediate future. He also noted that his family would not be carrying out representative duties until the current situation.

Luíz is the eldest son of Prince Pedro Henrique of Brazil (1909-1981) and Princess Maria Elisabeth of Bavaria (1914-2011). He is the grandson of Prince Luíz of Brazil (1878-1920) and Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1878-1973). Luíz is the great-grandson of Princess Imperial Isabel of Brazil, heiress of Emperor Pedro II, and her husband Prince Gaston d'Orléans.