The Alexander Palace Time Machine Discussion Forum

Portrait of Princess Adelheid von Sachsen-Meiningen,nee zur Lippe-Biesterfeld,grandmother of late Archduchess Regina:

Thanks ! The plot thickens. She makes Willis & Camilla looks like Snow White.

There are much more things about Eva-Marija and her role in life of both King Peter II and Prince Andrej...

Prince Tomislav stated in his memories that he thinks that she was fatal for both of them...and he also doubted the death circumstances concerning both of them...and so much more...

Well...She was the widow not the divorcee. She was faithful to her husband until death until she met Prince Andreij, he was the one who got divorced to marry her. She must be quite an amazing woman despite all that.

No Erac,she was having an affair with King Peter II while being married to Dr.Lowe and King Peter II was even being treated in their hospital...after his death and after she met prince Andrej(not Andreij) Prince Tomislav was very much against this liaison...he told Andrej that it's not fair to have anything with a "long term female friend" of their late brother King Peter II,but to no avail...

He went back to Portugal to get divorced and she divorced her husband Dr.Lowe and left her two sons,just as he did left his children from both marriages...

So,at the time of her marriage to Andrej,she was not a widow,but a divorcee,as he was...

I guess that makes her Princess Eva Marijia then.

Yes Erac,she is HRH Princess Eva-Marija officially and as such recognized by the Serbian Royal family and nobody can deny that...by marrying a Prince she officially became a Princess known by her own name...

Other things are that they are not in good terms,if they have any...

I agree with Marlene. In the German tradition she will be referred to as Princess Anreij of Yugoslavia/Serbia, but in Serbia she will be known as Princess Eva-Marija Karadjordjevic. However I do wonder if she ever visited her late husband's country ?

Erac,she is a Serbian born woman who is living in US from 1950.

Previously,she was married to a very respectable man-doctor Frank Lowe,whom she met at Rotary club party and whose uncle was Chinese ambassador in US.She has two sons with him and both of them are doctors...Her grandfather was a member of royal guards.Based on that she later met King Peter II and soon became inseparable with him...

When he died,the only member who came to the funeral was Prince Andrej,his brother...they met at the funeral and soon he divorced his second wife Kira-Melita...They later married in London and the rest is more or less known...

I mean in the usual royal sense. Remember Princess Olga od Greece was referred to as Princess Paul of Yugoslavia in several books.  That is the European way that did not apply in Serbia/Yugoslavia. So her title in Serbia would have been Princess Eva Marija Mitzi then.

Erac,if something is written in some book,it doesn't mean that it's automatically correct...some authors are not even informed properly about things they write about.

Olga was sometimes mentioned as Princess Paul,but such title officially didn't and still doesn't exist...Comparation wise,saying "Princess Paul" is the same like saying "Princess Marie-Christine of Kent"...The title "Princess Marie-Christine of Kent" doesn't exist in Britain,but just "Princess Michael of Kent"...Just like "Princess Paul" doesn't exist in Serbian Royal family law,whose subject Olga was when she married,but just "Princess Olga".

No female in Serbia,being either a common woman or a member of the royal family is not known,officially or unofficially by her husbands name-that thing doesn't exist...but just by her name.So,for example,there could have never been a title Princess Tomislav or Princess Andrej,but just Princess Margarita or Princess Kira-Melita...

Andrej's current widow is officially HRH Princess Eva-Marija Karadjordjevic and as such she is recognized by the royal family,but-she is mostly known or referred in the press just as Mitzi Lowe...

I think her title should be HRH Princess Andrej of Yugoslavia/Serbia because of her lower status. She did not seem to have a morganetic title.

Well Erac,as I explained in some earlier posts-under the Serbian royal family law,there is no such thing as "Princess husbands name" or even a morganatic title...

Every woman that marries a Prince of the royal House automatically becomes a Princess ONLY known by HER OWN NAME as said in the Serbian royal family Law...Apart from that,Serbia doesn't even know and doesn't have the term when a woman uses her husbands name...It doesn't exist because the law in general doesn't even know it and it would look both funny and awkward when such thing would occur...not to say,it would open many unwanted doors when such term would be misused...

Interesting. Does she uses her Royal Title ?

Yes,she does,or at least she tries to...but she is often known and recognized just as Mitzi Lowe!

And she stated in an interview that she is entitled to "Her Royal Highness",as in reality she is...when asked who is she,she stood a second and said:"Eva Marija Karadjordjevic" and that was her name after she married Prince Andrej...she was born Milica Andjelkovic...when she married Dr.Lowe,she was Mitzi Lowe and after her wedding to Prince Andrej she changed her name to HRH Eva Marija,although she never said she did...

Where does his widow loves now ? What part of US ?

She has a house in Palm Springs,where she lives...

Is his wife still alive ?

His wife,or should I say his widow Princess Eva-Marija is still alive...She is living in US and is not in good terms with the rest of the family:

I saw her just once wearing an unknown tiara...it was in documentary during the banquet ball when Queen Elizabeth II visited Germany,I think in 1965...

A lot of photos of Princess Alexandra von Hohenlohe-Langenburg taken at Winter Palace in Russia:

http://il-ducess.livejournal.com/182024.html

take a look at the link-it's in Russian!

With that half-smile,it really could have been her...She was also painted by Giovanni Boldini,whose portraits also hang in modern gallery in Palazzo Pitti...

Wow to the pictures and tiara...

Does anyone know who this Princess Radziwill could be?

It is painted by the French painter Charles Chaplin in 1890 and the portrait is now hanging in the modern gallery in Palazzo Pitti in Florence...