Queen Fabiola of Belgium died at Stuyvenberg Castle in Brussels in the early evening of 5 December 2014, aged 86. The last time I saw her was on 20 and 21 July 2013 in Brussels, when I was there for the inthronisation of King Philippe of the Belgians.
You’d almost forget, but no Willem Jan Johannes Pieter Floris van Vollenhoven, son of Prince Floris and Princess Aimée van Oranje-Nassau, Van Vollenhoven wasn’t christened yet. The little boy was born at the Bronovo Hospital in The Hague, The Netherlands, on 1 July 2013 at 1.32pm. The little brother of Magali and Eliane was finally […]
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As reported here Johann-Friedrich Fürst zu Castell-Rüdenhausen died on 30 October 2014, only aged 66, after a long fight against cancer. The funeral service took place in the Parish church of St Peter and Paul in Rüdenhausen, Germany, on 8 November 2014. The service in church was led by the Rev. Martin Fromm. About 1000 […]
Johann-Friedrich Fürst zu Castell-Rüdenhausen died at the Jagdschloss Friedrichsberg in Abtswind, Germany in the afternoon of Thursday 30 October 2014, aged 66. The hunting lodge of the family was the place where the Fürst spent his last weeks. He had been suffering of cancer for a long time. The Fürst was transported from Friedrichsberg to […]
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Duke Anton Günther von Oldenburg died on 20 September 2014 in Güldenstein, Germany. He was born in Lensahn, Germany on 16 January 1923 as son of Duke Nikolaus von Oldenburg and his first wife Princess Helene zu Waldeck und Pyrmont. He married at Kreuzwertheim, Germany, on 7 August 1951 Princess Ameli zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg. They became […]
Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Princess van Oranje-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg was born at 6:50 in the morning at Palace Noordeinde in The Hague on April 30, 1909. The little princess was named after her ancestor Countess Juliana zu Stolberg (1506-1580), mother of Prince Willem of Orange. Juliana was the only […]
Claus Georg Wilhelm Otto Friedrich Gert von Amsberg was born in Dötzingen, Germany, on 6 September 1926 as only son and second child of Claus von Amsberg (1890-1953) and Baroness Gösta von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (1902-1996). He had six sisters: Sigrid (1925), Rixa (1927), Margit (1930-1988), Barbara (1930), Theda (1939) and Christina (1945). He grew up […]
Ingrid Victoria Sofia Louisa Margaretha Princess of Sweden was born on March 28, 1910 at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden, as the third child and the only daughter of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden (since 1950 King Gustaf VI Adolf) and Princess Margaret of Connaught. She had four brothers: Gustaf Adolf (1906-1947), the […]
Having suffered from non-Hodgkins lymphoma since 1992, King Hussein of Jordan lost his fight against it in the morning of Sunday February 7, 1999, at the King Hussein Medical Centre in Amman. After having gone through therapies for months at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, hope faded away when symptoms came back not […]
A wonderful message reached me yesterday. Pieter Haitsma Mulier and his wife Princess Vanessa zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg with great joy and pleasure announce the birth of their first son Louis-Gaspard Otto George Haitsma Mulier on 14 August 2013. Little Louis was born at 9.43am and weighed 3440 gramms. Both mother and son are doing fine. Louis […]
