Photos are copyrighted The wedding season has started again. Nikolaus Habsburg-Lothringen – for royalists Archduke of Austria – married his childhood friend Sandra Aschauer at the St.-Nikolaus-Kirche in Bad Ischl, Austria, on 4 May 2024. The party afterwards – with around 150 guests – took place at the Kaiservilla in Bad Ischl. Their civil wedding […]
Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie of Luxembourg
Thanks to J. from Royalduo for the photos Archduke Alexander of Austria married his fiancée Natacha Roumiantzoff (Countess Natacha Roumiantzeff-Pachkevitch) at the église Saint-Pierre in Beloeil, Belgium, on 30 September 2023.
Thanks to J. from Royalduo for the photos Just a few weeks after the death of his grandmother, Archduchess Yolande of Austria († 13 September 2023), Archduke Alexander of Austria married his fiancée Natacha Roumiantzoff. The wedding was initially to take place in Montreux, Switzerland. The location however was changed to the église Saint-Pierre in […]
Copyright: a friend of mine About 600 guests had turned up for the wedding of Archduke Joseph Albrecht “Josh” of Austria and Countess Sophie von Schaesberg at the Parish Church St. Johannes Baptist in Sünching, Germany, on Saturday 26 August 2023 (see bridal couple), and the reception afterwards. Of course members of both the Austrian […]
Copyright: a friend of mine It is hard to keep up with all the big royal weddings at the moment, and there are more to come. At the Parish Church St. Johannes Baptist in Sünching, Germany, Archduke Joseph Albrecht “Josh” of Austria married Countess Sophie von Schaesberg on Saturday 26 August 2023. Their engagement became […]
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The royals have started publishing the photos that will appear on their Christmas card this year. Below the Christmas card of the Spanish King and Queen featuring their daughters the Princess of Asturias and Infanta Sofia in a rather autumnly setting. Furthermore the Christmas photo of the Belgian royal family has arrived, of course showing […]
Tratzburg Castle
Prince Henri de Bourbon de Parme and Archduchess Gabriella of Austria tied the knot on 12 September 2020 in the chapel of the beautiful Tratzberg Castle in Jenbach, Austria, that belongs to the Counts Goëss-Enzenberg. Two former reigning royal families were united once again. Bride and groom were unfortunately nowhere to be seen outside the […]
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In May 2020 the book “The Habsburgs The Rise and Fall of a World Power” (can also be found as “The Habsburgs. To Rule the World”) by Martyn Rady was published. More than 400 pages of which the first 25 can be seen here. Almost at the same time, in June 2020 the Dutch version […]
Princess Sophie von Hohenberg and family. Photo & Copyright: Henriëtte E.
When there is one book you should read at the moment, it is “The Assassination of the Archduke. Sarajevo 1914 and the Murder that Changed the World” by Greg King and Sue Woolmans. On 28 June it is 100 years ago that Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Austrian Crown Prince, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife […]
The year 1918 saw the end of three big empires in the world: Russia, Germany and Austria. Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, fled the country and spent the rest of his life – he died in 1941 – in the Netherlands. The fate of the Russian imperial family was worse, and several family members were […]