Last modified: 2 October 2022 1 September King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands had to cancel a visit to California and Texas, USA, from 6 to 9 September because he is still recovering of pneumonia. His wife Queen Máxima is now travelling alone. The Dutch Royal House has informed that Amalia, The Princess of Orange, is […]
God is love! Alexander and Hande married in Mecklenburg
A four-day trip to Denmark as well as a three-day stay in Germany had been long planned. All of the sudden these turned out to be among the busiest royal weeks of the year, because of the death on 8 September of the British Queen Elizabeth II. Had the funeral been a little bit earlier, […]
Paul and Franziska – Their wedding guests
Something that I didn’t talk about in my wedding post of Hereditary Prince Paul Anton (Pál Antál) Esterházy von Galántha and Franziska von Reutter are the guests. But of course they had guests! Unfortunately they arrived in the rain, but my photographer managed to take some nice pictures of a few of the more known […]
Paul and Franziska – A wedding tiara mystery
Photos are copyrighted by a friend of mine (not to be posted elsewhere) On 21 August 2021 Hereditary Prince Paul Anton (Pál Antál) Esterházy von Galántha and Franziska von Reutter were engaged in the Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria. He was born in 1986 as son of Prince Anton (Antal) Esterházy von Galántha and his former wife […]
Sun, lace and a carriage in Tuntenhausen
Photos copyrighted by a friend of mine Another nice noble wedding. Albrecht Graf und Edler Herr von und zu Eltz genannt Faust von Stromberg married Princess Anna Lobkowicz at the Wallfahrtskirche Tuntenhausen, Germany on Saturday, 16 July 2022. The bride arrived at the church in an oldtimer car together with her father. She wore a […]
Amélie & Benedikt – The wedding guests
Copyright: all photos by two of my friends Around 450 guests had come to Wertheim and Kreuzwertheim for the wedding of Benedikt Schmid von Schmidsfelden and Princess Amélie zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg on 28 May 2022. Among them many royals and nobles. Present were for example members of the families Arenberg, Bentheim-Tecklenburg, Castell-Castell, Castell-Rüdenhausen, Erbach-Erbach, Esterházy von […]
Noble and royal “interracial” Marriages
Updated 10 June 2022 How often these days I see articles stating that when Prince Harry of Wales married Meghan Markle in May 2018, it would be the first royal interracial marriage ever. Obviously most articles mean, the first British royal interracial marriage – as lots of media tends to forget there are other royal […]
Amélie & Benedikt – After a year of waiting
Photos: with kind permission of two of my friends, who were at Wertheim. The engagement was announced on 3 June 2020 of Benedikt Schmid von Schmidsfelden and Princess Amélie zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg. He romantically proposed on top of a mountain near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on Pentecost Saturday, 30 May 2020. They had met at the wedding of […]
The wedding of Willem-Alexander and Máxima in Amsterdam
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 […]
The wedding of Willem-Alexander and Máxima – Pre-wedding activities
Last modified: 10 December 2012 The wedding interview, 18 January 2002 Walking through the park of Palace Huis ten Bosch in The Hague Willem-Alexander Prince of Orange, his fiancée Máxima Zorreguieta and their interviewers Maartje van Weegen and Paul Witteman stopped near the pond where the prince asked his girlfriend to marry him. Willem-Alexander said […]