In many European countries there is no Christmas possible without showing the three Sissi-films from the 1950s with Romy Schneider as Empress Elisabeth of Austria and Karl-Heinz Böhm as Emperor Franz Joseph on television and many people watch year after year. The overly romantic films Sissi (1955), Sissi – The Young Empress (1956) and Sissi […]
Any royal postcard collectors among my visitors? I just have a small collection of cards, either with royals (old and new) or palaces/castles on it. My mother gave me these postcards recently, likely dating from the 1950s to the 1970s. The first black-white postcard shows the castles of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. The poststamps […]
Almost 600 people, among them many members of the Gotha, gathered in Parish Church St Verena in Bad Wurzach, Germany, on 12 December 2015 for the funeral of Georg Fürst von Waldburg zu Zeil und Trauchburg, who had died at Zeil Castle on 2 December 2015, aged 87. During the orations during the funeral service […]
For a long time it was common to translate the name of royals and nobles, both first names and titles, into the prefered language. In The Netherlands for example Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg went by the first name of “Jan”, his son Henri was often called “Hendrik”. Although it has become less usual, it […]
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Last modified: 19 December 2013 Stigtomta, 6 August 2005 On 6 August a nowadays quite rare wedding between two royals took place in Stigtomta, a small village near Nyköping, Södermanland, Sweden. 32-year-old Prince Manuel of Bavaria, son of Prince Leopold “Poldi” of Bavaria and his wife Ursula “Uschi” Möhlenkamp, married 27-year-old Princess Anna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, […]
Traditionally Saturday is the day to get married when you’re noble or royal. Of course it happens that weddings take place on other days, but not that often. On Saturday 13 July 2013 there were two nice weddings in royal circles. Marie-Eleonor Countess Kuefstein, born in 1990 as daughter of Andreas Count Kuefstein and Elisabeth […]
