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A belated Portuguese wedding report
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A belated Portuguese wedding report

My wedding photos have been in a Flickr album for ages already, and I posted the link on social media, but not yet on my blog. As you might know, I nearly spent a week in and around Lisbon, Portugal, early October 2023. My 50th birthday two weeks earlier, and the royal wedding of Dona […]

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I am finally on … Threads © Pixabay
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I am finally on … Threads

With Twitter slowly dying (I refuse calling the platform X), because of a lot of decisions by Elon Musk, I am among the many people, that try to find another way of keeping in touch with royalty watchers and fellow journalists. Mastodon didn’t really work for me, BlueSky is a bit better and I found […]

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New royal and noble books – August 2023 Copyright: TuendeBede at Pixabay / Trinity Library, Dublin, Ireland
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New royal and noble books – August 2023

For more new books about royalty see: *contains affiliate links* RUSSIA Title: Alexandra Feodorovna, Diaries and Correspondence, Volume I Princess of Hesse 1872-1893Author: George HawkinsPublication date: 31 August 2023Publisher: independently publishedLanguage: English Buy at Amazon: UK, US SWEDEN Title: Kungen 50 år på tronenAuthor: Roger LundgrenPublication date: 29 August 2023Publisher: The Book AffairLanguage: Swedish Buy […]

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New royal and noble books – July 2023 Copyright: TuendeBede at Pixabay / Trinity Library, Dublin, Ireland
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New royal and noble books – July 2023

For more new books about royalty see: *contains affiliate links* GENERAL Title: Dynasty in Motion: Wedding Journeys in Late Medieval and Early Modern EuropeAuthor: Patrik PastrnakPublication date: 28 July 2023Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: English Buy at Amazon: UK, US GERMANY Title: Der Kronprinz und das Dritte Reich. Wilhelm von Preussen und der Aufstieg des NationalsozialismusAuthor: Jürgen LuhPublication […]

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Alexander & Natacha – The wedding guests Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie of Luxembourg
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Alexander & Natacha – The wedding guests

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.

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Alexander & Natacha – A Countess becomes an Archduchess
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Alexander & Natacha – A Countess becomes an Archduchess

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 […]

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New royal and noble books – June 2023 Copyright: TuendeBede at Pixabay / Trinity Library, Dublin, Ireland
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New royal and noble books – June 2023

For more new books about royalty see: *contains affiliate links* DENMARK / UNITED KINGDOM Title: Danish-British Consort Portraiture, c.1600-1900Author: Sara AyresPublication date: 7 June 2023Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers LtdLanguage: English Buy at Amazon: UK, US (31 August 2023) DENMARK Title: Audienssalen på Frederiksborg SlotEditors: Stefan Pajung, Thomas Lyngby, Jakob ØrnbjergPublication date: 29 June 2023Publisher: Gads […]

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Karina and Alexis – A royal love match © Princess Karina
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Karina and Alexis – A royal love match

Prince Alexis Andronikof has married Princess Karina Bagration-Moukhransky civilly in Vannes, France, on 7 October 2023. She has taken the name of Princess Karina Bagration-Andronikof. The religious marriage has been postponed, until the mother of Karina will be able to attend. Karina Kharysova was born in Kiev, Ukraine, on 25 January 1978 as only child […]

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My Portuguese wedding article in Royalty
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My Portuguese wedding article in Royalty

Back already from Portugal for a whole month. Lisbon had been on my to-do-list for much too long, so I took the opportunity to go when there was one. Unfortunately, I got somewhat ill with covid soon after arriving home (first time) and haven’t been feeling fully well since. It happily didn’t prevent me from […]

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Extra: the wedding gala of Ludwig and Helene Prince Stephan and Princess Maria zur Lippe with children © Gabi
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Extra: the wedding gala of Ludwig and Helene

I received a few lovely photos of guests arriving for the wedding banquet/ball of Hereditary Prince Ludwig zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg and Helene von Pezold on 9 September 2023 at Kreuzwertheim, Germany.

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