Month: October 2020

New royal and noble books – January 2021 Pixabay, Leeds Castle
Books & Magazines, Media & Co

New royal and noble books – January 2021

For more new books about royalty see: History of Royal Women Rosvall Royal Books Royal Book News The World of Royalty Van Hoogstraten Online AUSTRIA (NOBILITY) Author: Maria Theodora Freifrau von dem Bottlenberg-Landsberg. Title: Im Wirbel der Zeiten. Das Leben der Anna Prinzessin Schwarzenberg (In the vortex of times. The life of Anna Princess Schwarzenberg). […]

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Dear library
About me, Blog & Me

Dear library

As long as I can remember -certainly 40 years or more – I have been a member of the public library, and for a while even of the library of the university. I started reading at the age of 5 and since books have been my life. Even when I moved from Sneek to Leek, […]

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Book review: Finding Freedom photo: Ken
Books & Magazines, Media & Co

Book review: Finding Freedom

It is the royal book of the year (at least when looking at the amount of publicity): “Finding Freedom. Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family” by royalty journalists Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand. In July 2020 I ordered the book at Amazon, but delivery was so slow that I decided […]

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Births 2019
News, Royal News

Births 2019

Last modified: 30 December 2022 Births and christenings in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2019. * = new Births Date Name Parents Place January 2 Sloane Adelaide Prince Stephan and Princess Amanda Lobkowicz January 19 Salama Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum of Dubai and his third wife Zeynab February 1 Enrique de Jesús, […]

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Births 2018
News, Royal News

Births 2018

Last modified: 29 December 2021 Births and christenings in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2018. * = new Births Date Name Parents Place January 22 Antonius Constantin Markus Vinzenz Arbogast Prince Georg and Princess Nathalie von der Leyen und zu Hohengeroldseck January Sheikha Dhai Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al Thani and Sheikha […]

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Births 2017
News, Royal News

Births 2017

Last modified: 30 December 2022 Births and christenings in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2017. * = new Births Date Name Parents Place January 2 Sinan Prince Rahim Aga Khan and Princess Salwa Aga Khan London, Great Britain January 5 Zita Maria Immaculata Elisabeth Irina Hereditary Prince Alexander and Hereditary Princess Sarah […]

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Births 2016
News, Royal News

Births 2016

Last modified: 30 December 2022 Births and christenings in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2016. * = new Births Date Name Parents Place January 16 Isabella Alexandra May Lord and Lady Frederick Windsor (Great Britain) Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, Great Britain February 1 Talal Prince Rashid bin Hassan of Jordan and […]

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Rain can’t stop the bride smiling
Marriages, News

Rain can’t stop the bride smiling

Originally planning to marry on 30 May 2020 also Ferdinand Lovrek and his bride Countess Vittoria von Waldburg zu Wolfegg und Waldsee postponed their wedding because of Covid-19. The couple got engaged in August 2019. On 26 September 2020 they finally could marry, as planned in the Parish Church St. Katharina in Wolfegg, Germany. Smaller […]

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Little Charles attended a German wedding
Marriages, News

Little Charles attended a German wedding

The photos are copyrighted, as usual Antonius Schierstädt married Kinga Edle von Poschinger in the Convent Church Maria Himmelfahrt in Dietramszell, Germany, on 10 October 2020. Just another noble wedding you’d say, but the groom is noble and the brides mother comes from the Austrian imperial family, making the wedding much more interesting. Although of […]

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Never pretend to be a royal
Miscellaneous, Names & Titles

Never pretend to be a royal

All over the social media people use the names of royals for their accounts. Sometimes you should wonder if that is allright or not. Last week I saw two totally different stories. On one hand there was one by someone on Twitter, while Twitter researched whether this person was actually the Duchess of Windsor, or […]

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