The Alexander Palace Time Machine Discussion Forum

Can someone tell me more about this Elizabeth Brezec?Ferdinand wanted to marry her...I havent seen a picture of her...

Here is an interview with Alzbeta Brezakova (in slovak language, with photo of an old lady). She said that she married Ferdinand in Bamberg in 1947 in a secret marriage. It´s for the first time I see these information - it was never mentioned in any genealogy...
http://zivot.lesk.cas.sk/clanok/7631/platonicke-manzelstvo-posledny-bulharsky-kral-sa-ozenil-so-slovenkou.html

I don´t know, if this was posted:
Portrait of Therese Thurn-Taxis (1773-1839) by Franz Gerhard von Kugelgen.


Fromhttp://www.portraitminiatures.com/home.htm

Countess Clothilde von Diertichstein,later Countess Apponyi:

Very nice portrait, Marc! Do you know where is it from and who is author?

Sorry wanted to say ...have you visited...typing on the iPhone and it's to small to do that...now I remember years ago I visited mikulov and saw the family tree painted on the wall there with the last member Mercedes.it's amazing that the castle was rebuild after the war!took lots a pictures very nice place

Of course I visited Mikulov and Libochovice - I was looking for Dietrichstein portraits there:) Family tree and portraits in Mikulov are wonderful. Now part of them is also on website of Mikulov museum: http://www.rmm.cz/dietrichstein/index.html (just click on names)

Chomodeo,
in Libochovice, there is a portrait of Alexandrina´s mother, Ekaterina Shuvalova. Copy of this portrait is also in castle Sternberk. Portrait of Alexandrina (owned by family Dietrichstein-Leloir) is now exhibited in castle Mikulov.

Hi beladona is this castle cesky sternberk?how u visited libochovice and mikulov?
Thanks

It´s not castle Cesky Sternberk (property of Sternberg family), but Sternberk (in Moravia, before WW2 owned by Liechtenstein family) - little confusing, I know:

Thanks to this information,I found that he had a son Dimitri and two daughters Helena and Maria,but nothing is known about them...

Helena (born 1815) married Michael Kreptovich, Maria (1820-88) married Albin von Seebach. Dimitri (born 1816) has from his marriage with Lydia Zakrewskaja one son, Anatol. Do you know something more about Nesselrode´s mother, Louise Gontard? She probably was not from noble family?

Do you mean this Karl Robert (1780-1862):


His parents are: Maximilian Julius Wilhelm Nesselrode (1728-1810) and Louise Gontard (1746-85).

And a portrait of her older sister Countess Theresia von Dietrichstein-Proskau-Leslie,later Countess von Herberstein:

this portrait (paint in 1853) is now in Ptuj castle in Slovenia...

Portrait of Princess Alexandrine von Dietrichstein,Countess von Mensdorf-Pouilly,the last member of Dietrichstein-Proskau-Leslie family by Oskar Kokoschka:

You mean Alexandrine Dietrichstein (1824-1906), wife of Alexander Mensdorff-Pouilly (1813-71)?? It must be some mistake...

Good god, the last lady looks like Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria in  costume!!

That´s my idea too! And many thanks Marc, for the posting...

I ve seen images of Mathilde with the same lady at the ONB with the same label,. Weird, isnt it cause it doesnt look at all like Maria Theresa

Yes, you are right, Maria Theresa was more pretty than this lady...but who could be her then?

Are you sure that the girl on the right in the first picture is Maria Theresa?. As far as i know none of the sisters had "dark" skin and eyes. Maybe she s a friend or another relative?

There is an inscription under the photo: "J.J.K.K.K.K.M.M. Erzherzogin Mathilde u. Therese," but it could be bad...

Interesting! But even ONB could be sometimes wrong...
Best way would be to compare this picture with some others photos of both ladies...

Princesses Stephanie and Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, about 1857

Are there  any pictures of their brother Anton (1841-66), who died very young?

It had to be cruel for the parents to loose both sons, one in mysterious circumstances and one because of this last illnes.
REMI, do you know if marriage of princess Françoise of Bourbon-Parma was considered morganatic in her family? And what was her (or her family) part in carlist "problem" of her brother?