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Balkan Royal Families / Re: Tzar Ferdinand of Bulgaria and his family

« on: February 18, 2018, 05:33:28 AM »

Strauss composed  two pieces: Festmarsch op. 452 ( march for Ferdinand) and Hochzeitsreigen op. 453 (waltz for Maria Luisa). Here are the cover and the title page of the original Hochzeitsreigen.

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Balkan Royal Families / Re: Tzar Ferdinand of Bulgaria and his family

« on: November 25, 2015, 01:06:23 AM »

Here's the portrait of Eudoxia in better quality - link. The artist is Nikola Mihaylov. I found the image on Facebook in the profile of a man with amazing collection of photos. I couldn't go through all of it (because it's huge!), but I'm posting the link if you are interested + some highlights:

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Balkan Royal Families / Re: Tzar Ferdinand of Bulgaria and his family

« on: November 06, 2015, 12:00:45 PM »

Are there any painted portraits of the two sisters?

I couldn't find anything on the web but this small image. It's Eudoxia I think.

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Balkan Royal Families / Re: Tzar Boris III of Bulgaria and his family

« on: April 30, 2015, 11:56:46 AM »

Chosen pictures from the new issue of a popular Bulgarian magazine:

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Balkan Royal Families / Re: King Simeon II of Bulgaria and his family

« on: April 11, 2015, 09:37:08 AM »

Sad news. Prince Kardam has passed away a few days ago - source.

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Balkan Royal Families / Re: Bulgarian Royal Residences

« on: September 18, 2014, 03:12:40 AM »

There are some plans of Vrana that can be found on the official site of the palace:

The first floor
The ground floor
The Orthodox Chapel

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Balkan Royal Families / Re: Tzar Boris III of Bulgaria and his family

« on: May 21, 2014, 02:59:47 AM »

Is it confirmed that the photo was taken circa 1926?

Well, the description of the photo says so. :-)

Снимка на цар Борис ІІІ и княгиня Евдокия с гондола по каналите на Венеция по време на посещението им там през 1926 г.
Албумът е подарен от подполковник Първан Драганов, флигеладютант на цар Борис ІІІ, на 3 окт. 1926 г. в памет от първото пътуване на царя в чужбина.

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Balkan Royal Families / Re: Tzar Boris III of Bulgaria and his family

« on: January 18, 2014, 12:05:55 PM »

Perhaps it's my browser.

I just remembered that I'm using addblockers :-).

Boris and Giovanna married in 1929 so presumably they knew one another for quite a long time beforehand. His mother was a Bourbon-Parma, so was he perhaps related to Giovanna?

Ann

According to Stephane Groueff, Boris and Giovanna first met in September 1927. That picture is from Boris' first trip abroad as tsar \1926\.

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Balkan Royal Families / Re: Tzar Boris III of Bulgaria and his family

« on: January 18, 2014, 08:29:30 AM »

Some interesting pictures. Unfortunately, each time I clicked on one, I not only got the picture but some others  showing bodybuilders with captions such as 'Want to increase your muscle mass?'!!!

Strange. I'm using 2 pcs and on neither I see such stuff. Next time I'll go with the good old Tinypic. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Was the picture in the gondola taken around the time of Boris and Giovanna's wedding?

Ann

It's from 1926.

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Balkan Royal Families / Re: Tzar Boris III of Bulgaria and his family

« on: January 18, 2014, 05:28:45 AM »

Interesting finds from the state archives:
http://postimg.org/gallery/4dd22niw/

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Balkan Royal Families / Re: Tzar Ferdinand of Bulgaria and his family

« on: January 18, 2014, 05:22:33 AM »

Some really nice portraits of Maria Luisa that I haven't seen before:




The source is the newly digitalised Bulgarian state archives \link\.

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The Hesse-Darmstadts (Hesse and by Rhine) / Re: The Battenbergs - discussion, pictures

« on: December 13, 2013, 01:28:54 AM »

The Hartenau children

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The Hesse-Darmstadts (Hesse and by Rhine) / Re: State Archives

« on: October 19, 2013, 02:35:04 AM »

Try this:
http://www.hadis.hessen.de/scripts/HADIS.DLL/home?SID=2024-2087189-B6846&PID=BE34

You enter your key words in the Schnellsuche text box.

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Balkan Royal Families / Re: Tzar Ferdinand of Bulgaria and his family

« on: September 10, 2013, 04:45:26 AM »

From a documentary about Ferdinand:



They said something interesting about Ferdinand's father, August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotta. Until his death Ferdinand forbade anyone to even mention his father, because he was ashamed that August has spent the last days \years?\ of his life in a psychiatry. I couldn't find more info on that subject online \about August\. Could it be true?

And these are from Maria Luisa's short biography that I bought today.

Maria Luisa with her parents, Vienna, 1870


1895


In the uniform of her second cavalry regiment, 1893


With Ferdinand and princess Clementine at the Ebenthal palace, 1894

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The Hesse-Darmstadts (Hesse and by Rhine) / Re: The Battenbergs - discussion, pictures

« on: September 03, 2013, 01:09:16 AM »

I also suspected that. Glad we could clear that. The handwriting though looks a lot like the one on the Wikipedia picture, I guess it was what misled me.