Photos & copyright: Jelland Sprang On 27 December 2021 the surprise engagement of Princess Maria Laura of Belgium and William Isvy was announced. Laura’s uncle King Philippe of the Belgians on 31 January 2022 gave his permission for the wedding. They managed to keep their wedding date a secret for quite a while. The date […]
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Last modified: 10 December 2012 Amsterdam, Saturday, 2 February 2002 The program 10.15-10.45: Civil wedding conducted by Mr Job Cohen, mayor of the City of Amsterdam, in the Beurs van Berlage. The ceremony is attended by family members, government representatives and invited guests from the municipality of Amsterdam, the provinces and other parts of the […]
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Last modified: 1 October 2021 Later this year His Imperial Highness Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia will marry Rebecca Virginia Bettarini, at least when everything goes as planned (you never know with Covid-19 still around). Already quite a bit of news has come in. Here is an overview of the first imperial wedding to […]
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 […]
Me being interviewed by NDR
Because the civil wedding of Prince Ernst August von Hannover Junior and Ekaterina Malysheva was to take place on Thursday 6 July 2017, I travelled to Hannover the previous afternoon. For me it is only an almost four-hours train ride, which unfortunately because of some delay turned into an hour extra. I met up with […]
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Only weeks after his younger brother Prince Hermann married civilly Isabelle Heubach it was the turn of Hereditary Prince Ferdinand zu Leiningen to tie the knot. He and his bride, Viktoria Luise Prinzessin von Preussen (Princess of Prussia) choose to get married at the Refectory of the family castle in Amorbach, Germany on 29 April […]
I’ve published this rather exclusive picture with permission of Ulrike. Please do not copy or post it elsewhere It will be a busy year for the Princely Family zu Leiningen, as the two sons of Fürst Andreas and Fürstin Alexandra are getting married. The youngest of the two, Prince Hermann (* 1987) kicked off the […]
Last modified: 12 July 2016 Beloeil, 17 & 18 June 2016 Photos are all copyrighted by Henriëtte E. and not to be used elsewhere. It was probably the wedding of the year in Belgium. On Friday, 17 June 2016, Count Guillaume de Dampierre married Princess Alix de Ligne civilly at the Town Hall in Beloeil, […]
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 […]
