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News Links / Re: Prince Philip (not) to the rescue??

« on: February 06, 2011, 09:17:33 AM »

WikiLeaks: Prince Philip's unlikely Israeli plot


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8299304/WikiLeaks-Prince-Philips-unlikely-Israeli-plot.html

Enjoy,
dca

Very interesting, but is Prince Philip really the next living heir of Grandduke Sergei?

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Books about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / Re: Julia P. Gelardi: From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928

« on: February 06, 2011, 09:13:55 AM »

From St Martin's Press:

At the centre of all this tumult were four women of the Romanov dynasty: Marie Alexandrovna, Olga Constantinovna, Marie Feodorovna and Marie Pavlovna (Feb 2011)

Has Julia Gelardi written in her new book  about Marie Alexandrovna the daughter of  Alexander II. and Duchess of Edinburgh?

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Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna / Re: Grand Duchess Elizaveta - discussion and pictures PART IV

« on: February 05, 2011, 01:45:41 PM »

This is my favourite painting of Grandduchess Elizabeth.

Does anybody know the painter and when it was painted?

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The Hohenzollern / Re: Georg Friedrich von Preussen and Sophie Prinzessin von Isenburg

« on: January 22, 2011, 06:55:38 AM »

Congratulations. They are a nice couple.

HSH Princess Sophie von Isenburg (-Birstein), born 7 April 1978, is the third daughter of Franz Alexander, 8th Fürst von Isenburg and his wife Countess Christine von Saurma. She has two brothers, Erbprinz Prince Alexander and Prince Viktor, and two sisters, Princess Katharina (married to Archduke Martin of Austria-Este) and Princess Isabelle (married to Carl, 8th Fürst zu Wied).

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The Hesse-Darmstadts (Hesse and by Rhine) / Re: Elizabeth (daughter of Ernie)

« on: January 14, 2011, 07:17:49 AM »

The picture was made in the park of Wolfsgarten at Elizabeth's small house. There it is kept today.

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The Hohenzollern / Re: Crownprince Wilhelm & Crownprincess Cecilie, their family, Part II

« on: January 14, 2011, 06:54:49 AM »

She was a  real beauty in her youth: In her life she was admired by the public as much as Lady Diana.

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The Hohenzollern / Re: Princess Victoria of Schaumburg-Lippe (Moretta), 2nd daughter of Kaiser Friedrich III

« on: January 14, 2011, 06:49:24 AM »

In her áutobiography "Was mir das Leben gab - und nahm" Viktoria-Moretta wrote she was a close friend of Grandduchess Elizabeth (Ella). Does anybody know whether they met when they were adults? Or if they exchanged letters?

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The Windsors / Re: Photo Identification

« on: January 14, 2011, 04:32:01 AM »

I found this image and looks a lot like MArina, duchess of kent, but i have my doubts. What do you say?



 


that's Marina Duchess of Kent in the mourning dress she wore when her father Nicholas Greece died.

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The Hesse-Darmstadts (Hesse and by Rhine) / Re: Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig (Ernie), Grand Duchess Eleanor (Onor) & family

« on: January 14, 2011, 04:18:50 AM »

Maybe that is why there is no wedding photos...

That`s not the reason.

I consider they were destroyed with the Neues Palais Sept. 11th 1944.

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The Hesse-Darmstadts (Hesse and by Rhine) / Re: Elizabeth (daughter of Ernie)

« on: January 14, 2011, 04:11:48 AM »

a few pictures of little elzabeth. by the way, who is she with?

Little Elizabeth is seen here with her cousins Louise, George and Louis, the children of her aunt Victoria. I am not quite sure, but I think the picture was taken in 1903 when they stayed in Darmstadt for the marriage of their elder sister Alice with Andrew of Greece.

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The Hesse-Darmstadts (Hesse and by Rhine) / Re: Grand Duke Ludwig IV

« on: October 25, 2010, 02:25:59 PM »

Thanks, Hector, for posting the pictures of Anna, LudwigIV' sister. I head read about her but never seen a picture of her afore.

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The Hesse-Darmstadts (Hesse and by Rhine) / Re: Elizabeth (daughter of Ernie)

« on: August 15, 2010, 11:11:41 AM »

The nanswer of who s that baby is in this picture

http://www.flickr.com/photos/15693951@N00/1118379111/in/set-72157605773043057/

If we can identify who are that couple , perhaps we would find out who is that baby.

The couple in the picture are Ernst of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and his wife Alexandra (the sister of Victoria-Melita). I think the toddler is their
son Gottfried, but I am not sure.

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The Hesse-Darmstadts (Hesse and by Rhine) / Re: Palaces and Castles of the Hesses

« on: May 22, 2010, 06:54:21 AM »

Here is a palace with the following caption, I can't really find anything on it, but would love to learn more if anyone has any information

Bolongaro Palace is a palace in baroque style built between 1772 and  1774 for Josef Maria Markus and Jakob Philipp Bolongaro. The two brothers were born in Stresa (Italy) and settled in 1735 in Frankfurt on the Main. There they owned the biggest tobacco manufactory of Europe and became very rich merchants. Because they were Roman-Catholic they did not get civil  rights in Frankfurt and so they built their palace in Hoechst, a small city lying at the Main. Today it's a urban quarter of Frankfurt.

Bolongaro Palace is the biggest palace in baroque  style that was not built for Royalty. It's situated on the Main and it's opened to the public.
The rooms are richly decorated with mirrors, wall paintings and wallpapers made of silk as well as arich decorated chapel. Today it's used for
concerts and theatre performances. 
 

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The Hohenzollern / Re: Prince Henry (Heinrich) of Prussia, his family and descendants, Part 2

« on: May 22, 2010, 06:18:39 AM »

Irene burnt most of her correspondence and diaries at the end of WWI as she was afraid it could fell in the hands of revolutionizers.

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The Hesse-Darmstadts (Hesse and by Rhine) / Re: Palaces and Castles of the Hesses

« on: March 21, 2010, 01:02:54 PM »

This year the garden of Wolfsgarten is open for the public May, 15-16th and 23-24th 2010.

The Princely Gardening Event takes place Sept., 17-19th 2010.

Regards,
Gabriella.