Year: 2020

Births 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Royal News September 2020
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Royal News September 2020

Last modified: 4 October 2020 1 September Princess Eléonore of Belgium has started her secondary school at the Heilig Hartcollege in Wezembeek-Oppem. Her parents King Philippe and Queen Mathilde accompanied their youngest daughter. On Monday the eldest daughter Elisabeth, the Duchess of Brabant, started her education at the Royal Military Academy of Belgium. The two […]

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Willem Lodewijk Year 2020
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Willem Lodewijk Year 2020

2020 was going to be the Year of Willem Lodewijk. 400 years after his death Count Willem Lodewijk of Nassau-Dillenburg was to be commemorated in the city of Leeuwarden all year long. This man, who during his lifetime always lived in the shadow of his more famous cousins Maurits and Frederik Hendrik, Princes of Orange […]

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Bourbon de Parme & Austria – A true royal match Tratzburg Castle
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Bourbon de Parme & Austria – A true royal match

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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Fürstliche wedding in Bückeburg
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Fürstliche wedding in Bückeburg

On Saturday September 12, 2020 Fürst Alexander zu Schaumburg-Lippe married Mahkameh Navabi civilly at Bückeburg Palace, Bückeburg, Germany. Due to Covid-19 they have postponed their religious wedding and huge celebrations to 2021, so the wedding celebrations this year have been altered. Two days of party as far as I understood with no more than 50 […]

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