Last modified: 19 March 2014 Engagements, marriages and divorces in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2009. 12 January Marriage of Sheikh Saeed bin Dalmouk bin Juma’a Al Maktoum of Dubai and Sheikha Hissah bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai at Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 31 January Religious marriage of Count […]
Last modified: 19 March 2014 Engagements, marriages and divorces in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2008. 19 January Engagement announced of Viscount Auguste de Castelbajac and Countess Stefanie von und zu Trauttmansdorff- Weinsberg. 22 January Engagement announced of James Moss-Gibbons and Michelle de Bourbon (Two Sicilies). 30 January Marriage of Sheikh Abdullah […]
Last modified: 11 March 2014 Engagements, marriages and divorces in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2006. Engagements Date Groom-to-be Bride-to-be Place February Pieter Haitsma Mulier Vanessa Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein- Berleburg April 15 Count Friedrich von Rechteren-Limpurg-Speckfeld Cosima Jacobi April 15 Stanislao dei Marchesi Lepri Countess Anna zu Waldburg-Wolfegg und Waldsee May 5 […]
On 19 July 2011 I met a royal I thought I would never meet. Not only did I see her, I also took some pictures and was allowed to be present when she was being interviewed, and asked her some questions myself. A remarkably young looking 92-year-old: Princess Woizlawa Feodora Reuss née Duchess von Mecklenburg-Schwerin. […]
Last modified: 22 December 2013 Photos & Copyright: Henriëtte E. Nancy, 28 & 29 December 2012 Civil wedding, 28 December 2012 The last royal wedding of the year 2012 – as far as I know – took place in Nancy, France, on 28 and 29 December 2012. The civil wedding of His Imperial and Royal […]
Last modified: 21 December 2013 Potsdam, 25 & 27 August 2011 Thursday, 25 August 2011 As I hadn’t been in Potsdam for twelve years, and this city near Berlin is really interesting for royalty-watchers, I already headed to Germany on Wednesday August 24th. After a trainride of more than five hours I arrived in Berlin […]
Last modified: 19 December 2013 Mechelen, Belgium, 6 December 2008 Civil wedding After a gala evening at nearby Zemst on Friday the guests for the wedding of Count Rodolphe de Limburg Stirum and Archduchess Marie-Christine of Austria had a good night sleep. Around noon several royals could be spotted strolling through the shopping streets of […]
Last modified: 19 December 2013 Coburg, 21 & 23 May 2009 Civil wedding, 21 May 2009 A wedding is always a good occasion to stay somewhere for a few days, and apart from the wedding see as much tourist attactions as possible. As the civil wedding was a private event and we didn’t know how […]
Last modified: 20 December 2013 Tuesday, 26 April 2011 As a royalty watcher you should of course arrive at the place-to-be in time. So on Tuesday, 26 April 2011 I took the airplane from Amsterdam to London, where I had booked a hotel already late November. Not too close to Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace, […]
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 […]
