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<td class="tr-caption">Princess Anna Luise of Anhalt, 1973.</td>
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<p>Born at Schloß Ballenstedt on 26 March 1933, Princess <em>Anna-Luise</em> Marie Friederike Elisabeth Alice of Anhalt was the second child and daughter of Duke Joachim Ernst of Anhalt (1901-1947) and his second wife Editha Marwitz (1905-1986), who married in 1929. </p>
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<td class="tr-caption">Duke Joachim Ernst of Anhalt</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">The Ducal Children: Alexandra, Anna Luise, Friedrich, Edda, and Eduard of Anhalt</td>
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<p>Anna-Luise had four siblings: Princess Marie Antoinette (1930-1993), Prince Friedrich (1938-1963), Princess Edda (b.1940), and Prince Eduard (b.1941). In 1950, the princess, her mother Duchess Edda, and her siblings moved to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. </p>
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<td class="tr-caption">Princess Anna-Luise of Anhalt, 1957.</td>
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<p>In the late 1950s, Anna-Luise relocated to the United States from Germany. She obtained a position at the Newton Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts, where the princess received the skills necessary to become a nurse in the United States. Anna-Luise had apparently already received medical training in Germany. In January 1961, Anna-Luise was a guest at a soirée in New York City held in the Plaza Hotel. The event was also attended by Prince Louis Ferdinand and Princess Kira of Prussia, their daughter Princess Kira, and Princess Cecile of Prussia (Mrs. Clyde Harris). The proceeds from the event contributed to a fund that allowed American students to attend graduate courses in Germany. </p>
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<p>On 5 August 1966 in Clark County, Nevada, Princess Anna-Luise of Anhalt married Thomas Beverly Birch (1927-2016). The couple had one child, a son: James Christian George Anhalt Birch (b.New York City, NY 12 April 1967). Princess Anna-Luise and Thomas Birch divorced in 1970.</p>
<p>In January 1973, on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. James H. Gunning, the princess granted an interview to the <em>Hattiesburg American</em> of Mississippi. At the time, Anna-Luise was nearing her fortieth birthday. She had lived in the United States for quite some time. </p>
<p>"<em>Some of my working colleagues in Germany disliked me because of my position. Here in America it's entirely different for it doesn't seem to matter to people that I have a title. I'm very proud of my family background, but don't particularly enjoy royalty that much for I don't care for their jet set. I prefer my friends to like me for myself, not for my name.</em>"</p>
<p>"<em>My family has castles, forests, and eighteen ranches in East Prussia. On the land there was a brewery, lumber mill, and all our meats and food was raised on the farms. We also had three villas in Munich when I was growing up in Anhalt. There were 150 people who lived on our lands and helped in the care of them.</em>"</p>
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<td class="tr-caption">Schloss Ballenstedt.</td>
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<p>"<em>I recall a tree planted in the park at Dessau, the capital of Anhalt, that the Russian czar had given my daddy. According to an old German superstition if the tree is cut down or dies the castle will be destroyed. The tree fell a week before the English bombing of Dessau, and I recall my father saying, 'This is the end of Dessau and of the castle.' All this did come to pass.</em>"</p>
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<td class="tr-caption">The death record of Duke Joachim Ernst of Anhalt, issued in 1953.</td>
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<p>"<em>My father didn't feel we could leave Germany because of generations of people who had worked for our family. He often said, 'A commander can't leave his troops.</em>'" In 1947, the family of Duke Joachim Ernst was informed by the International Red Cross that the duke had died at Buchenwald concentration camp (also known as NKVD special camp Nr. 2). Joachim Ernst had been arrested by the Soviets in 1945. A news report from October 1949 contained information given by an engineer who has escaped from Dessau into West Germany. The engineer, who only went by his first name Ernst, stated: "<em>There were some releases, but 75 per cent of the original inmates died there. All of my friends - none of them Nazis - who were interned there, died. I have the names of twelve [inmates] at my fingertips. Among them was the duke of Anhalt, Joachim Ernst, 48, who had been sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis in 1944. He was again thrown into the prison camp by the Russians, because he was an aristocrat. His mother [Princess Luise of Saxe-Altenburg], 76, is still living in Dessau in a room by herself. She is poor and suffering from hunger. Her castle is now the residence of the Soviet commander.</em>"</p>
<p>Princess Anna-Luise's memories from her 1970s interview continue below:</p>
<p>"<em>I was twelve years-old at the time and not fully aware of the danger involved with our escape. It was something of a lark for me. Of course, the Russians took everything we owned and we left Anhalt with the clothes on our backs.</em>"</p>
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<td class="tr-caption">The princess (right) as a student nurse at Newton Wellesley Hospital, 1957.</td>
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<p>"<em>I worked in Berlin for awhile and decided to come to the United States. My first job was at Newton Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Mass. </em>[Note: the princess was a nurses' aide at the hospital.]<em> I attended English classes but couldn't understand a word that was said by the teacher. I'll be forever grateful to the hospital staff and patients who helped me master, not quite, the English language.</em>"</p>
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<p>"<em>In 1963, I spent a year in Cairo, Egypt, as governess for Princess Faika's four children. She is the sister of ex-King Farouk. I adored the children and they called me their 'half-sister.'</em>"</p>
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<td class="tr-caption">Anna-Luise's entry into the USA in 1960.<br>At that time, she was living at the YWCA in New York City.</td>
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<p>"<em>For awhile after I came to this country I couldn't take a deep breathe without being reported in the paper. I recall being interviewed by a young reporter in New York. At that time I was living at the YWCA. The headline on her story was Princess' castle is at the Y, and I got such a laugh out of this story. Another time, Charlie [Cholly] Knickerbocker, wrote in his column, 'The usually senate Princess Anna Luise von Anhalt stopped traffic last night at the Seagram Building, while wading in the poor, dressed in a sarong and orchid lei.</em>'"</p>
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<p>At the time of her interview in 1973, the princess had not yet returned to her homeland. Anna-Luise found her calling, as noted, as a registered nurse in the field of obstetrics. Princess Anna-Luise of Anhalt died on 1 November 2003. She was buried at Ballenstedt, near the castle where she was born seventy years before.</p>
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<h3>A Review – RECOLLECTIONS: The Memoirs of Victoria Milford Haven</h3>
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<p> <strong>“Recollections” – Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven, formerly Princess Louis of Battenberg.” Annotated and expanded by Arturo E. Beéche & Ilana D. Miller. (Eurohistory.com), 270 pages, illustrated throughout.</strong></p>
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<p>Victoria Milford Haven will be very familiar to our reader as the maternal grandmother of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. The eldest daughter of Princess Alice of Great Britain and Grand Duke Ludwig IV of Hesse, she and her siblings Ella, Irene, Alix and Ernie grew up under the eye of their grandmother Queen Victoria after their mother’s tragic death in 1878. Tragedy was never far behind for the Hesse family, Victoria also losing two of her siblings, Frittie and May, in childhood.</p>
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<p>These memoirs, written for her children and grandchildren for private publication, have now been made available to everyone, not just the few lucky historians who were fortunate enough to be able to consult them in the archives. They cover the years 1863 to 1914, Victoria not wishing to go further and cover the tragedies beyond, which she realised her family would know only too well anyway. She expressed herself bored with the whole process and credits Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden (lady-in-waiting and close friend of her sister Empress Alexandra) for keeping her up to the mark. Thank goodness the Baroness did! </p>
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<p>An introduction by the editors gives a resumé of the Princess’s life up to the outbreak of war in 1914, giving a greater understanding of the people and things that Victoria glosses over (or omits altogether). Then we come to the actual memoirs. Victoria comes over as very independent, pragmatic, a convinced socialist and, in her younger days a tomboy, in stark contrast to her sister Ella to whom she remained close.</p>
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<p>“My mother’s death was an irreparable loss to us all and left a great gap in our lives,” she wrote in something of an understatement. The children then came under the watchful eye of Queen Victoria and were also fond of their Uncle Leopold, the Duke of Albany. Later, there is a touching sketch of Queen Victoria’s character, outlining what the Queen meant to Victoria Milford Haven. </p>
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<p>Although Queen Victoria did not frown on the Battenbergs, the issue of a morganatic marriage, it is a little surprising to learn that at first ,she was not pleased about Victoria’s engagement to Prince Louis, even though he had spent a large part of his life in England and was serving in the Royal Navy. She probably would have opposed it more had she known that the wedding would lead to her daughter Beatrice’s marriage to Louis’s brother! Louis and Victoria lived for large parts of the time in Malta, and it was interesting to read about the life of a naval wife on the island. </p>
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<p>I loved the account of kangaroos, ostrich, and a zebra kept at Frogmore (who knew!) and the short account of the drawbacks of steam driver motor cars (I wonder what she would have made of electric ones). </p>
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<p>With two sisters married in Russia (Ella to Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and Alix to Tsar Nicholas II), trips to that country figure largely. There is an account of the 1896 coronation and the tragedy of Khodynka which followed, Sergei’s assassination in 1905 and his funeral (and a photograph of what was left of his carriage after the bomb explosion), visits to Ella’s Moscow convent and, more fully, the journey she and her daughter Louise made in 1914. This included trips to Perm and Ekaterinburg, both of which would form places of confinement for members of the Romanov family and would figure largely in the tragedies to come. The trip was curtailed hurriedly on the outbreak of war, Victoria leaving her jewels in Russia for safekeeping. She never saw Ella and Alix (or her jewels) again. On the way back to England they saw the Dowager Empress and her daughter on the border between Finland and Sweden and here Victoria makes a mistake. The daughter was Xenia, not Olga.</p>
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<p>Victoria mistakes the odd name or date, and these errors are expertly corrected in footnotes by the editors, who give full explanations of events which are only glossed over in the memoirs. They also have identified people who Victoria’s family would have known well, but we are less familiar with. </p>
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<p>An epilogue brings the story up to date as the tragedies unfold – the murders of Ella, Alix and the latter’s husband and family in Russia, the death of her brother Ernie followed by that of his elder son and family in the Hesse air crash of 1937, the death of Louis in 1921, and of her elder son Georgie. </p>
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<p>Throughout all this, Victoria Milford Haven kept going and, as the editors point out, she always did her duty.</p>
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<p>The hundreds of photographs, as always in Eurohistory books, are excellent and mostly sourced from the vast Eurohistory collection. I particularly like the one of Prince Franz Joseph of Battenberg’s wife Anna of Montenegro in her ‘bright red little motor car.’</p>
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<p>The result is a gorgeous book which gives us an insider’s account of life inside the royal family, from the court of Hesse to the court of Queen Victoria and beyond.</p>
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Today, 19 January 2021 (the Feast of Epiphany), Prince Bagrat Bagrationi was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. The little prince, who is named after his late paternal grandfather, is the first child of Prince Juan Bagration-Mukhransky and his wife Princess Kristine. Prince Bagrat is a great-great-great-grandchild of King Alfonso XII of Spain.<div>
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<p><br>Today, 20 January 2021, the Chancellery of the Imperial House of Russia announced the engagement of HIH Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and Nob. Rebecca Virginia Bettarini.</p>
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<blockquote><em>The Chancellery of the Head of the Imperial House of Russia<br><br>HIS IMPERIAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUKE GEORGE MIKHAILOVICH OF RUSSIA AND NOB. REBECCA VIRGINIA BETTARINI ARE ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED<br><br>It is with great pleasure that Her Imperial Highness The Grand Duchess of Russia, Head of the Russian Imperial House, announces the engagement of her beloved son, His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke George of Russia, to Nob. Rebecca Virginia Bettarini, daughter of His Excellency Ambassador Nob. Roberto Bettarini.<br><br>Nob. Rebecca Virginia Bettarini has converted to Holy Orthodoxy, with the name Victoria Romanovna.<br><br>The wedding is expected to take place in Autumn 2021. Further details of the date and time of the wedding will be announced in due course.<br><br>His Imperial Highness and Nob. Rebecca Virginia Bettarini became engaged in December 2020, after the Grand Duke received permission to marry from his mother, as the Head of the Imperial House. His Imperial Highness has also received the blessing of Ambassador Nob. Roberto Bettarini.</em></blockquote>
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<p>Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia also issued the following decree:</p>
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<div><em>Asking the Lord’s blessing, We are pleased to grant Our permission to Our beloved son and heir, His Imperial Highness The Tsesarevich and Grand Duke GEORGE of Russia, to enter into marriage with his chosen bride, the hereditary noblewoman Rebecca Virginia Bettarini, who, on 29 June / 12 July 2020, the Feast of the Holy Chief Apostles Peter and Paul, in the Cathedral of Ss. Peter and Paul in St. Petersburg, was received into Holy Orthodoxy with the name VICTORIA ROMANOVNA.<br><br>We deem it proper that VICTORIA ROMANOVNA should, from the moment of her marriage with Our son, have the right to use the dynastic surname Romanoff with the title of Princess and the predicate of Serene Highness.</em>
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<em>Announcing this event, so joyful for Our heart, and entrusting the future of our Most August son and heir, H.I.H. The Grand Duke George of Russia, and his future wife to the almighty protection of the Heavenly King, with firm faith in His mercy, We have every confidence that Our countrymen will join their prayers with Ours to Almighty God for a happy marriage, prosperity, and the blessing of children.</em>
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<em>Issued in Madrid on the 20th day of January in the year of Our Lord 2021, and in the thirtieth year since Our succession to the rights and duties of Our Most August Ancestors—the Emperors and Empresses of Russia.<br><br>The original is signed in Her Imperial Highness’s own hand:</em></div>
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<p><br>Therefore, the marriage of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and Nob. Rebecca Virginia (Victoria Romanovna) Bettarini will take place with the permission of the Head of the Imperial House, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia. The decree gives the appearance that the marriage will be considered unequal; however, as the decree does not address the style and title of any future children of the couple in the way of the past decrees from Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich and Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich on the same topic, this is open to interpretation. Further, the imperial decree notes that the future Princess Victoria "<em>should, from the moment of her marriage with Our son, have the right to use the dynastic surname Romanoff</em>." After the marriage, Nob. Victoria Romanovna Bettarini will bear the style and title of Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Romanovna Romanoff.</p>
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<div>Grand Duke George and Nob. Rebecca Bettarini have always had many friends in common, and they met several times during their teens at events in Europe. They met again as adults at a French Embassy event in Brussels when both were working for large foreign companies accredited to European institutions. From there a deep friendship was born that led the Grand Duke to ask Bettarini to help him in the charity activities carried out by the Imperial family. Later, the friendship morphed into a long and loving relationship. After living for about six years in Brussels, the couple decided to settle in Moscow, Russia, where they both work in the philanthropic sector. </div>
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<div><br>The ring is of a type traditionally exchanged by brides and grooms in the House of Romanov. The ring’s style of setting, in which cabochon rubies, sapphires, garnets, amethyst, diamonds or emeralds are invisibly set into a burnished gold band, became popular in the late 19th century. In the past, these rings were given as friendship or engagement bands, and were worn both by men and woman. They were quite fashionable in the late Victorian era, particularly because of the popularity of using gemstones to indicate certain values, traits, and feelings; all stones were ascribed with symbolic meanings. Members of the Romanoff Dynasty have always worn rings of this type, particularly in the Vladimirovichi branch, which became the senior line of the dynasty after 1918. The rings worn by members of the Russian Imperial Family often had diamonds, sapphires, and rubies, reflecting Russia’s national colours – white, blue, and red. When he was eighteen years-old, Grand Duke George of Russia was given this ring by his mother, the Head of the Imperial House of Russia, Grand Duchess Maria of Russia. It was to be used as an engagement ring that he would one day give to his future fiancée. The ring centers a ruby cabochon gemstone that represents love and nobility, and two diamond brilliants that represent purity and strength. In August 2020, Grand Duke George of Russia presented the ring to Rebecca Virginia Bettarini during a private holiday. </div>
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<h3>Their Families Delighted on Announcement of Engagement</h3>
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<div>During normal times, the families of Grand Duke George and Rebecca would be able to be with them in person to celebrate this happy occasion: the engagement of their children. Alas, due to travel restrictions in place due to the current coronavirus pandemic, the parents of the couple have sent their expressions of happiness to George and Rebecca from their respective homes. In Madrid, Grand Duchess Maria of Russia sends much love her son and her future daughter-in-law. In Potsdam, Prince Franz Wilhelm and Princess Nadia of Prussia send their deep affection and happiness to George and Rebecca. In Rome, Ambassador Roberto Bettarini and Mrs. Carla Bettarini send their love to their daughter and their future son-in-law. George and Rebecca are only children, so this joyous moment in their lives means a great deal to their parents and family.</div>
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<h3>More on the Fiancé: Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia</h3>
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HIH Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia was born at Madrid on 13 March 1981: the grand duke's arrival took place exactly 100 years after the martyrdom of his great-great-grandfather, Emperor Alexander II of Russia, in 1881. On 6 May 1981, the feast day of St. George, the little grand duke was baptised into the Russian Orthodox Church. Grand Duke George’s godparents are King Constantine II of Greece, for whom the baby’s grandfather Grand Duke Vladimir stood proxy, and Helen Kirby, Countess Dvinskaya, George’s maternal aunt. Grand Duke George was raised between Madrid, Paris, and St Briac. He attended Runnymede College in Madrid, D'Overbroeck's College, Oxford, and St Benet's Hall, Oxford. After completing his studies at Oxford University, and wanting to study the processes that were determining the future course of Europe, Grand Duke George began working for the European Parliament, and then moved to the position of assistant to the vice-president of the European Commission and Commissioner for Transport and Energy, Loyola de Palacio, in Brussels. Later George continued working for the European Commission in Luxembourg, in the European Commission for Atomic Energy and Security. In November 2008, Grand Duke George accepted a job offer from the management of Norilsk Nickel; and in December, the Grand Duke assumed the position of special advisor to the company’s Director, V. I. Strzhalkovskii. In this new position, His Imperial Highness represented the interests of Norilsk Nickel—one of Russia’s largest companies—in the European Union. In addition, Grand Duke George of Russia took a seat on the Board of the Nickel Institute. After having gained significant experience advancing the interests of Russian industry, and his employment contract with Norilsk Nickel having expired, Grand Duke George of Russia founded <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/">Romanoff and Partners</a>, a public relations consulting firm in Brussels. Grand Duke George is the president of Foodbank Rus, the main food back in Russia.</div>
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<h3>About George's Mother: Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia</h3>
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<td class="tr-caption">Grand Duke Vladimir and Grand Duchess Leonida with their daughter Grand Duchess Maria and their grandson Grand Duke George.<br>Photograph courtesy of the Russian Imperial Chancellery.</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">Grand Duchess Maria of Russia with Grand Duke George and Victoria Romanovna, Malaga, 2019.<br>Photograph (c) Belga Image.</td>
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<div>Grand Duke George's mother is HIH Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia, the Head of the Russian Imperial House since 1992. On 23 December 1953, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia was born at the Nuestra Señora de Loreto Clinic in Madrid. She was the only child of Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, Head of the Imperial House from 1938 until 1992, and his wife Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna (née Princess Bagration-Mukhranskaya), who married in 1948. Maria Vladimirovna was the granddaughter of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich (1876-1938) and Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna (1876-1936; née Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha), the great-granddaughter of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich (1847-1909) and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna (1854-1920; née Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin), and the great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Alexander II Nikolaevich of Russia (1818-1881) and Empress Maria Alexandrovna (1824-1880; née Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine). Upon being baptised into the Russian Orthodox faith on 3 February 1954, the infant was given the name Maria; the chosen godparents were her great-uncle Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich, who due to ill health was represented at the event by Prince Nicholas of Romania (a son of Maria Vladimirovna's great-aunt Queen Marie of Romania), and Queen Mother Giovanna of Bulgaria. Maria was partially raised by a nurse: a Swiss-German woman by the name of Hanny Vögelin. Hanny, described as “firm but fair,” taught the little girl how to read and write, and stayed on with the family until Maria went to primary school at the age of seven. After this, Maria went on to the British Institute in Madrid. Passionate about languages, she then made the choice to enter Oxford University, where she began her studies in 1972 at Lady Margaret Hall. Grand Duchess Maria left Oxford in early 1975 an accomplished polyglot, fluent in English, French, Russian and Spanish as well as possessing a thorough knowledge of Russian literature. In July 1976, Grand Duke Vladimir and Grand Duchess Leonida announced the engagement of their daughter Maria to Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia, the son of the late Prince Karl Franz Joseph of Prussia and his first wife Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich (as Franz Wilhelm became known after converting to Russian Orthodoxy and being granted the style and title of Grand Duke of Russia by his soon-to-be father-in-law) were married in great style on 22 September 1976 at the small Orthodox Church in Madrid. Their wedding was attended by four kings (King Lek a I of the Albanians, King Simeon II of Bulgaria, King Umberto II of Italy, and King Juan Carlos of Spain) and six queens (Queen Mother Geraldine of Albania, Queen Susan of the Albanians, Queen Mother Giovanna of Bulgaria, Queen Margarita of Bulgaria, Queen Farida of Egypt, and Queen Sofía of Spain) as well as a deluge of other royals. Maria and Michael's only child was born almost five years into their union. Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia arrived on 13 March 1981 at Madrid. Grand Duchess Maria Vladmirovna and Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich separated in 1982. Their divorce became final in 1985. The grand duchess has never remarried. As a single mother, Grand Duchess Maria raised her son with the assistance of her parents. Once again, the four Romanovs formed a tight family unit. Grand Duke George also had regular visitation with his father Prince Franz Wilhelm (who reverted to his Prussian title after the divorce). In 1992, Grand Duchess Maria succeeded as the Head of the Imperial House of Romanov following the sudden death of her father. Since that time, the grand duchess has made more than seventy visits to Russia, carrying on the duties of her imperial ancestors and attempting to help her fellow Russians to revive the traditional foundations of the state and society. In her speeches and interviews, the Grand Duchess Maria of Russia repeatedly emphasizes that she is the representative of the traditions of legitimate Orthodox monarchy, but that under no circumstances does she wish monarchy to be imposed on the Russian people against their will.</div>
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<h3>About George's Father: Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia</h3>
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<td class="tr-caption">Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia with his son Grand Duke George (and his grand-dog Zhong).<br>Photograph courtesy of the Russian Imperial Chancellery.</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">Grand Duke George with his parents Grand Duchess Maria of Russia and Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia as well as his stepmother Princess Nadia at the wedding of Hereditary Prince Ferdinand of Leiningen and Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia, 2017.<br>Photograph courtesy of the Russian Imperial Chancellery.</td>
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<div>Grand Duke George's father is HRH Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (b.Grünberg 3 September 1943; formerly His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia). Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia is the eldest surviving child of HRH Prince Karl Franz Joseph of Prussia (1916-1975) and HSH Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath (1918-1972). Franz Wilhelm studied law and business administration at the University of Mainz and the University of Frankfurt am Main. The prince is a businessman. From 1976 until 1985, Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia was married to Grand Duchess Maria of Russia. In view of the fact that his wife would inherit the rights and duties of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, Prince Franz Wilhelm converted to Russian Orthodoxy before his wedding convert and took the name Michael Pavlovich. This was by mutual agreement and with the blessing of the then Head of the Russian Imperial House, Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, and the then Head of the German Imperial and Prussian Royal House, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia. In accordance with the marriage contract, the groom agreed to raise any children from his marriage to Grand Duchess Maria of Russia in the Orthodox faith and as members of the Russian Imperial House. Grand Duke Michael and Grand Duchess Maria had one child, Grand Duke George (b.1981). Prince Franz-Wilhelm gave up the title of Grand Duke of Russia when he and Grand Duchess Maria divorced in 1985, but the prince remains a practicing member of the Russian Orthodox Church. Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia and his wife Princess Nadia (née Nour; <a href="https://eurohistoryjournal.blogspot.com/2019/05/prince-franz-wilhelm-of-prussia.html">the couple married in 2019</a>) live in Potsdam. Accompanied by his wife, Prince Franz Wilhelm visited Russia for the first time in March 2020, to celebrate the birthday of his son, Grand Duke George of Russia. Prince Franz Wilhelm attended the Divine Liturgy and took Holy Communion in the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in the village of Uspenskoe, in the Moscow Region. The prince then attended an intercessory prayer service for the health of this son, and a requiem service for Emperor Alexander III in the Novospassky Monastery in Moscow, where he paid his respects to the ancestors of the House of Romanov.</div>
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<h3>More on the Fiancée: Nob. Rebecca Virginia Bettarini</h3>
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<div>Nob. Rebecca Virginia Bettarini was born at Rome on 18 May 1982 as the daughter and only child of His Excellency Ambassador Nob. Roberto Bettarini and his wife Carla Virginia Cacciatore. Rebecca spent her first five years of life with her parents in Paris and then lived a year in Venice, before the family moved to Baghdad, where she began elementary school in 1988. She returned to Rome with her mother in August 1991 when the Iraqi army invaded Kuwait. Rebecca's father was at the time the chargé d’affaires at the Italian Embassy in Iraq, and Mr. Bettarini remained in Baghdad until January 1992 to help evacuate Italian nationals and to close the Italian embassy. From 1991 to 1993, Rebecca attended schools in Rome. In June 1993, following the appointment of her father as the Italian Consul General in Venezuela with jurisdiction over the Caribbean, the Bettarini family moved to Caracas for four years. In the Venezuelan capital, Rebecca attended the Agustin Codazzi Bilingual Institute. </div>
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<div>In 1996, the Bettarini family moved to Brussels, where Rebecca attended the European School, where she received instruction in French, English, Spanish and Italian. During her years in Brussels, Rebecca played a number of roles in various productions of the theatrical company "Il Cerchio Magico." The proceeds from these productions supported the charitable activities of the VAI Foundation (Italian Volunteers Assistance), of which her mother, Carla Virginia Bettarini, was an active and leading member. The VAI Foundation supports Italian patients undergoing liver transplant surgery in Belgium, and also provides support to their families. </div>
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<div>After obtaining her European School diploma in Brussels in 2000, Rebecca Bettarini returned to Rome to study political science, with an emphasis on international and European studies, at Luiss Guido Carli University (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli). She graduated in November 2004, having written a thesis entitled "<em>Trade of Agricultural Products and the Rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO</em>)." </div>
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<div>After graduation, Rebecca obtained a master’s degree, with an emphasis on European law and international law with a specialisation in the law of armed conflict, as well as the laws governing the World Trade Organization and international trade disputes in the World Trade Organization’s DBS (Dispute Settlement Body). During these years in Rome, Rebecca served as a volunteer of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, distributing food and basic necessities every Saturday morning to those in need. She also became an active member of the Association of Italian Historic Houses (Associazione Dimore Storiche Italiane, or ADSI), which organises international events to promote and preserve Italy’s historical heritage by working collaboratively with other European historical and preservation associations dedicated to the same purpose. Rebecca Bettarini also obtained a master’s degree in ceremonial and international protocol. </div>
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<div>In March 2005, Rebecca was hired by <a href="https://www.leonardocompany.com/en/home">Finmeccanica</a>, an Italian defense contractor, where she initially handled event management for the Farnborough international airshow in England, organizing and receiving official government delegations to the airshow. In December 2005, she transferred to the company’s institutional relations department, where she was in charge of analyzing disputes in the aviation sector presented to the World Trade Organization, in particular cases under DS316 (Measures Affecting Trade in Large Civil Aircraft) and DS353 (the formal complaint lodged in 2006 by the European Union over alleged U.S. government subsidies to Boeing). Rebecca Bettarini also drafted a detailed analysis of the effects of changes in European policies on the company’s defense research and development division. </div>
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<div>In 2010, she transferred to the Finmeccanica office in Brussels, where she was accredited as a lobbyist in the institutions of the European Union. She contributed to an analysis of the evolution of the European Galileo, Copernicus, Earth Observation and Navigation System programs, and she participated in several working groups, including the ASD (Aerospace and Defense Industry Association), the Kangaroo Group, the Steering Group, and other lobbying groups charged with negotiating the priority of companies in the aerospace sector of European institutions. She also dealt with the Public Regulated Services of the Galileo Program, as well of the Space Situational Awareness project, and took part in meetings for the drafting of the International Code of Conduct on the Use of Outer Space, and participated in negotiations on the issue of space pollution (space debris). Rebecca Virginia Bettarini worked as an impact analyst on the negotiations for the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership) and TAFT (Transatlantic Free Trade) agreements. </div>
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<div>Rebecca Bettarini traveled to Russia for the first time in 2009, visiting St. Petersburg with her father. For ten years she has provided constant support to Grand Duke George in his many cultural and charitable activities. Rebecca's father, Ambassador Roberto Bettarini, provided significant support for the construction of the <a href="http://stcaterina.com/">Orthodox Church of St. Catherine in Rome</a>. For his assistance to the Russian Orthodox Church and his efforts to develop and strengthen relations between Russia and Italy, the Head of the Imperial House of Russia, Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, made him a Knight of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Anna">Imperial Order of St. Anna</a> First Class, an award which carries with it membership of the historical hereditary nobility of the Russian Empire. </div>
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<div>In 2017, Rebecca Bettarini left Finmeccanica to become the Director of the Russian Imperial Foundation, which was founded by Grand Duke George of Russia and which enjoys the patronage of his mother Grand Duchess Maria. Also in 2017, Rebecca founded Carré, a consulting and management company that works mainly with European clients. In 2019, in recognition of her charity work in Russia and her assistance to humanitarian efforts between Russia and Europe, the Head of the Imperial House of Russia, Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, made Rebecca Virginia Bettarini a dame of the <a href="http://www.imperialhouse.ru/en/dynastyhistory/honoursaward/2462.html">Imperial Order of the Holy Great Martyr Anastasia the Alleviatrix of Captives</a>. In addition, in recognition of her charitable activity, HRH Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria, awarded Rebecca Virginia Bettarini the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George. </div>
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<div>Since 2019 Rebecca Virginia Bettarini has lived in Moscow, where she directs the activities of the Russian Imperial Foundation and the Carré company, and where she continues her to keenly study the Russian language and culture. Rebecca is fluent in French, English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese and has become increasingly proficient in Russian. She enjoys riding horses and writing fiction set in countries where she has lived. Bettarini's debut novel, <em>Beauty Queen: An International Thriller</em>, is set in Venezuela and will be published by the British publishing house Europe Books in 2021 and distributed in English. </div>
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<div>In 2019, Rebecca Virginia Bettarini began studying the teachings of the Orthodox faith under the direction of His Eminence Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America. On 12 July 2020, on the Feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, she converted to Russian Orthodoxy in the presence of His Eminence Metropolitan Varsonofy of St. Petersburg. Rebecca Virginia Bettarini was received into the Orthodox Church with the name Victoria Romanovna, in honour of the Holy Martyr Victoria of Rome, and in memory of Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna. The ceremony took place in the Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg, which is the mausoleum of the Romanov dynasty.</div>
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<h3><strong>About Rebecca's Father: His Excellency Ambassador Nob. Roberto Bettarini</strong></h3>
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Rebecca's father Roberto Amedeo Simeone Bettarini was born at Taranto on 5 May 1947. He moved with his family to Somalia following his father Aldo, an officer in the Italian Navy. On his return to Italy, Roberto continued his classical studies and graduated with a law degree from the La Sapienza University of Rome. After a brief time with the Fornari law firm of Rome, Roberto Bettarini completed the diplomatic training course at the SIOI (Italian Society for International Organizations). </div>
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<div>In 1975, Mr. Bettarini entered into a diplomatic career with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where until 1977 he served in the ceremonial of the Republic and the General Directorate for Italians Abroad. </div>
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<div>In 1977, Roberto Bettarini was assigned to the Italian embassy at Kinshasa in Zaire as first secretary and chargé d’affaires. Following the attempted insurrection in the Shaba region and the subsequent risks to the Italian community of Lubumbashi and Kolvezi, on the instruction of the Foreign Ministry, in 1977 Roberto Bettarini organized the evacuation of over 500 Italian citizens from Zaire through an airlift of an Italian Air Force C-130. In 1979, following the war between Tanzania and Uganda, on the instructions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Bettarini carried out a month-long mission along the border that separates Zaire and Uganda, in search of over 100 Comboni Fathers who fled to the Zairean territory and ensured their safe return to Italy. </div>
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<div>In October 1979, Roberto Bettarini was assigned to the Tehran office with the task of opening the Italian consulate to protect over 7,000 Italian technicians who worked in Iran largely at the port of Bandar Abbas, in the south of Iran. The opening of a consulate was made necessary following the fall of the Shah and the arrival of Ayatollah Komeini, who had promulgated certain laws after the Islamic revolution and decided to block the works of the oil port of Bandar Abbas, in which more than 5,000 Italian workers were engaged by the Impregilo consortium. Following the Iranian occupation of the US embassy in Tehran in November 1979, and the taking of fifty-two diplomatic hostages, on the instruction of the Ministry and with the collaboration of the Consulate General of the Soviet Union in Tehran, Mr. Bettarini worked to organize the evacuation of Italian citizens across the border via the Caspian Sea directly into the Soviet Union through safe conduct passes issued by the Soviet Consulate. Once in the USSR, Bettarini's Italian compatriots were transferred to Baku by the authorities, from where they returned to Italy. </div>
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<div>In 1981, Roberto Bettarini was assigned to the Italian headquarters of the OECD in Paris as deputy officer of the head of mission, responsible for the energy committee, budget management, and Italian personnel at the organization, as well as overseeing relations with COCOM member countries. From 1985 until June 1986 he was assigned to the Directorate General for Development Cooperation as deputy head of office, where he was responsible for the cooperation programs of the Central Technical Union for investments in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. From June 1986 to July 1987, he held the position of deputy head of legation for the organisation of the G7 in Venice, where he was responsible for relations with the delegations of the participating countries, management of the press room and contacts with Italian and local administrations involved in the preparation. From Autumn 1987 until June 1988, he was Head of Secretariat of the Director General of Development Cooperation with the task, among other things, of managing the personnel of the Directorate General and preparing the documentation relating to the most important cooperation projects in Italy. </div>
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<div>In July 1988, Roberto Bettarini was transferred to the Baghdad office as deputy officer of the head of mission with the function of Head of political, economic, commercial and cultural relations with local authorities in conjunction with Italian companies operating in Iraq in the areas of energy, construction, and public works. In August 1990, following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, in his capacity of business officer, and with Italy being president of the European Union, Mr. Bettarini directed and coordinated the meetings of the heads of mission of the European Union and extending the invitation also to his American colleague Wilson and to that of the USSR Kalugin to exchange information on the strategy operated by Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi government in Kuwait. Following the Iraqi government's decision to detain in Iraq and Kuwait the citizens of Western countries who had strongly condemned the Iraqi intervention in Kuwait as hostages at the UN Security Council, Roberto Bettarini worked to protect the status of over 600 Italian technicians then in Iraq and Kuwait: these workers were guaranteed full diplomatic and consular protection until the end of December 1990, when they were able to leave the country definitively with state flights organized by Alitalia. In January 1991, following the start of the Gulf War, the Desert Storm international coalition for the liberation of Kuwait, Roberto Bettarini was recalled to Rome after having closed and sealed the Italian embassy in Iraq and destroyed all the documentation contained therein. </div>
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<div>From February 1991 until June 1993, Robert Bettarini was assigned to the press service of the Minister for Foreign Affairs with the position of head of secretariat responsible for relations with the Italian press. In June 1992, Bettarini was responsible for organizing the press service of the extraordinary NATO summit held in Rome. </div>
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<div>In June 1993, Mr. Bettarini was assigned to the Consulate General of Italy in Caracas, Venezuela, with the function of Consul General and jurisdiction over the whole of Venezuela and the Caribbean area where over 600,000 Italians lived. In this role, he organised the state visit of the President of the Republic Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to Venezuela. </div>
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<div>In October 2006, Roberto Bettarini was appointed the Ambassador of Italy to Luxembourg by the Prodi government, with the task of maintaining and consolidating relations with the European Court of Justice, the European Investment Bank, the European Court of Auditors, as well as providing assistance to the Italian government ministers who participated in meetings of the European Union. In Luxembourg, Mr. Bettarini sought to develop economic and commercial relations between Italy and the Luxembourgish government. In 2009, Ambassador Bettarini organised the first official visit of the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.</div>
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<div>In June 2010, Roberto Bettarini was appointed the Ambassador of Italy to Belgium. Ambassador Bettarini retired on 31 December 2012. </div>
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<div>From March 2013 to October 2014, Ambassador Bettarini served as a special advisor for international relations to the European Commissioner for Industry, Antonio Tajani. Based in Brussels, Mr. Bettarini coordinated projects in Russia, Argentina, Finland, Portugal, Spain, France, Romania, and Germany. </div>
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<div>Ambassador Roberto Bettarini has received the following orders due to his service: Order of Merit of Luxembourg; Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Italian Republic; Grand Officer Order of Francisco de Miranda, Commander (Venezuela); Order of the Leopard of Zaire; Imperial Order of St. Anna, Knight First Class (Russian Imperial House).</div>
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<div><em><strong>First Generation </strong></em></div>
<div>1. Nob. Rebecca Virginia (Victoria Romanovna) Bettarini (b.Rome 18 May 1982)</div>
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<div><em><strong>Second Generation</strong></em></div>
<div>2. HE Ambassador Nob. Roberto Amedeo Simeone Bettarini (b.Taranto 5 May 1947)</div>
<div>married at Kinshasa, Congo on 13 August 1977</div>
<div>3. Carla Virginia Cacciatore (b.Rome 30 August 1945)</div>
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<div><strong><em>Third Generation</em></strong></div>
<div>4. Aldo Giulio Icilio Bettarini (Rome 14 April 1910-Rome 10 December 1976)</div>
<div>married at Rome on 16 February 1939 </div>
<div>5. Marcella Tomassini (Rome 27 June 1908-Rome 1977)</div>
<div>6. Giulio Cacciatore (Melito Porto Salvo, Reggio di Calabria 2 June 1916-Rome 14 October 1988) </div>
<div>married at Rome on 10 November 1944 </div>
<div>7. Elsa Spoletini (b.Rome 25 March 1924)</div>
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<div><em><strong>Fourth Generation</strong></em></div>
<div>8. Amedeo Angiolo Giuseppe Bettarini (Poggibonsi 21 October 1883-Rome 23 December 1947)</div>
<div>married at Rome on 3 February 1910<br>9. Carolina de Luca (Rome 14 October 1892-)</div>
<div>10. Simeone Tomassini (1863-)</div>
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<div>11. Elvira Bartolini (1880-)</div>
<div>12. Alberto Cacciatore (Polistena, Reggio di Calabria 1874-Villa San Giovanni, Reggio di Calabria 5 November 1918) </div>
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<div>13. Virginia Rossetti (San Procopio, Reggio di Calabria 1890-)</div>
<div>14. Giovanni Crisostomo Spoletini (Bellegra 4 May 1895-Rome 29 April 1988)</div>
<div>married at Bellegra on 18 December 1919</div>
<div>15. Benedetta Regina Maria Ciani (Bellegra 21 July 1897-Rome 10 February 1979)</div>
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<div><strong>Note:</strong> For more information about the ancestry of Rebecca Bettarini, please see <a href="https://cuadernosdeayala.es/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CAyala-83.pdf">GENEALOGÍA DE LA DOCTORA Da REBECCA BETTARINI</a>.</div>
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<br><em><strong>We send our warmest congratulations to the couple and their families on this most joyous occasion!</strong></em></div>
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<div>Emperor Bảo Đại of Vietnam and his eldest daughter Princess Phương Mai at the Italian Formula 1 Grand Prix at Monza, 1955.</div>
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<p><br>Princess Phương Mai of Vietnam, Dowager Duchess di Addis Abeba, died on 16 January 2021 at Louveciennes. The princess was eighty-three years-old. A widow since 1992, Phương Mai had lived with her sister Princess Phương Dung in Louveciennes for quite some time.</p>
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<div>Left to right: Empress Nam Phương, Crown Prince Bảo Long, Dowager Empress Рoan Huy holding her granddaughter Princess Phương Mai, and Emperor Bảo Đại.</div>
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<div>Princess Phương Mai of Vietnam was born on 1 August 1937 at Da Lat. She was the second child and first daughter of Emperor Bảo Đại of Vietnam (1913-1997) and his first wife Empress Nam Phương (1914-1963). Princess Phương Mai had four full siblings: Crown Prince Bảo Long (1936-2007), Princess Phương Liên (b.1938; married Bernard Soulan), Princess Phương Dung (b.1942), and Prince Bảo Thắng (1943-2017). From her father's other wives and concubines, Princess Phương Mai had seven half-siblings. </div>
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<div>In 1947, Empress Nam Phương departed Vietnam with her children and lived at the Château Thorens, outside of Cannes. Princess Phương Mai received her education in France and returned to Vietnam, where she lived from 1949 until 1953. In 1955, Emperor Bảo Đại and Empress Nam Phương along with their children permanently relocated to France after Bảo Đại's overthrow. </div>
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On 5 August 1971 at Paris, Princess Phương Mai of Vietnam married Don Pietro Badoglio (1939-1992), 2nd Duke di Addis Abeba and Marquis del Sabotino.<br><br>Don Pietro Badoglio was the eldest son of Don Mario Badoglio dei duchi di Addis Abeba (1905-1953) and his wife Donna Giuliana Rota dei conti di San Vito al Tagliamento (1913-). The ducal title was created for Pietro's grandfather Marshal Don Pietro Badoglio (1871-1956) in 1936 by King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy; Marshal Badaglio served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 1943-1944.<br><br>Pietro and Phương Mai had two children: Don Flavio (b.1973) and Donna Manuela (b.1959 or 1979).<br><br>Princess Phuong Mai of Vietnam, Dowager Duchess di Addis Abeba, was privately buried on 21 January 2021. She is survived by her two children, her two grandchildren, her two sisters, and her nieces and nephew.</div>
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<td class="tr-caption">The betrothal ceremony of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini.<br>Photograph courtesy of the Russian Imperial Chancellory. </td>
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<td class="tr-caption">The betrothal ceremony of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini.<br>Photograph courtesy of the Russian Imperial Chancellory.</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">The betrothal ceremony of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini.<br>Photograph courtesy of the Russian Imperial Chancellory.</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">The betrothal ceremony of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini.<br>Photograph courtesy of the Russian Imperial Chancellory.</td>
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<p>On Sunday, the Russian Imperial Chancellery announced that Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini had held their betrothal ceremony that day in Kostroma. </p>
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<blockquote><strong>The betrothal of Tsesarevich George of Russia and his bride-to-be, Miss Victoria Romanovna Bettarini, took place at the Ipatiev Monastery in the city of Kostroma<br></strong><br>On January 24, 2021, at noon, the Heir of the Head of the Imperial House of Russia, His Imperial Highness The Grand Duke George of Russia, and his fiancée, the hereditary noblewoman Miss Victoria Romanovna Bettarini, were betrothed in the Holy Trinity Cathedral in the Ipatiev Monastery in the city of Kostroma. The betrothal service was officiated by His Eminence Metropolitan Ferapont of Kostroma and Nerkhta. Among those attending the service were government officials of the Kostroma Region.<br><br>In the morning, the Grand Duke and his fiancée attended Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Holy Epiphany-St. Anastasia in Kostroma, receiving Holy Communion and venerating the great and holy icon of the House of Romanoff—the Feodorovskaya miracle-working Icon of the Mother of God.<br><br>Then the couple proceeded to the Holy Trinity Ipatiev Monastery, where the betrothal service took place, officiated by His Eminence Metropolitan Ferapont and other clergy of the Kostroma diocese.<br><br>On behalf of the Governor of the Kostroma Region, S. K. Sitnikov, the Chief of Staff the administration of the Kostroma Region, M.B. Smirnov, formally greeted Tsesarevich George and his fiancée Victoria Romanovna.<br><br>Later that same day, Grand Duke George and Victoria Romanovna, accompanied by Archpriest Dimitri Sazonov, visited the construction site of the new church at the Second City Hospital of Kostroma, and the Children’s Maritime Center.</blockquote>
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<p>Last week, Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, grandson of King Umberto II of Italy and great-grandson of King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy, issued a televised apology based on a letter he wrote to the Jewish population of Italy:</p>
<blockquote><em>I am writing to you with an open heart a letter that is certainly not easy, a letter that may surprise you and that perhaps you did not expect. Yet know that for me it is very important and necessary, because I believe that, once and for all, the time has come to come to terms with the History and the past of the Family that I am here today to represent, in the name of that Royal House that contributed significantly to the unification of Italy, a name that I proudly bear. </em>
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<div><em>I am writing to you, Jewish brothers, on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, a symbolic date chosen in 2000 by the Parliament of the Italian Republic, to commemorate the perpetual memory of a tragedy that saw six million European Jews perish at the hands of the Nazi-Fascist madness, including 7,500 of our Italian brothers and sisters. To these sacred Italian victims, I today wish to officially and solemnly ask for forgiveness on behalf of my whole family. I decided to take this step, a duty for me, so that the memory of what happened remains alive, so that the memory is always present. </em></div>
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<div><em>I condemn the racial laws of 1938, of which still today I feel all the weight on my shoulders and with me the whole Royal House of Savoy and I solemnly declare that we do not recognize ourselves in what Vittorio Emanuele III did: a painful signature, from which we dissociate ourselves firmly, an unacceptable document, an indelible shadow for my family, a wound still open for the whole of Italy. I condemn the racial laws in memory of my glorious ancestor King Carlo Alberto who on 29 March 1848 was among the first sovereigns of Europe to give Italian Jews full equality of rights. </em></div>
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<div><em>I condemn the racial laws in memory of the numerous Italian Jews who fought with great courage on the battlefields of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as true Patriots. I condemn the signing of the racial laws in memory of the visit to the new Synagogue in Rome that my great-grandfather Vittorio Emanuele III made in 1904, after which on 13 January of the same year he said he was in favour of the birth of the Jewish state and he expressed himself: "Jews, for us, are Italians, in all respects." I want history not to be erased, history not to be forgotten, and history always has the opportunity to tell what happened to all those who desire the truth. The victims of the Holocaust must never be forgotten and for this reason, even today, they cry out to us their desire to be rightly remembered. </em></div>
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<div><em>Even my House suffered personally, albeit for political reasons, and was deeply wounded in the dearest affections: how could we forget the tragic end of my aunt Mafalda of Savoy, who died on 28 August 1944 in the Buchenwald concentration camp after terrible agony? How could I forget that my aunt Maria of Savoy was also deported with her husband and two of their children to a concentration camp near Berlin? Both were also daughters of the same Vittorio Emanuele III. </em></div>
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<div><em>I am writing to you, Jewish brothers, with vivid and profound emotion in the stabbing memory of the sweep of the Ghetto which took place on 16 October 1943. I am writing to you Jewish brothers, in the anguished memory of the too many victims that our beloved Italy lost. I am writing to you this letter of mine, sincerely felt and desired, which I address to the whole Italian community, to retie those unfortunately broken threads, so that it may be a first step towards that dialogue that today I wish to resume and follow personally. </em>
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<div><em>With all my sincere brotherhood,</em></div>
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<div><em>Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia</em></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">"The laws for the defence of the race approved by the Council of ministers."</div>
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The first and most impactful of the Leggi Razziali (Racial Laws) was the Regio Decreto of 17 November 1938. This decree restricted the civil rights of Italian Jews, banned their books, and excluded them from public office and higher education. Additional laws stripped Italian Jews of their assets, restricted travel, and allowed for their confinement as political prisoners.</div>
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<blockquote><em>What happened with the racial laws, at the height of a long collaboration with a dictatorship, is an offence to Italians, Jews and non-Jews, which cannot be erased and forgotten. <br><br>The silence on these facts of the descendants of that house, which lasted more than eighty years, is a further aggravating circumstance.<br><br>The descendants of the victims have no authority to forgive and it is not up to Jewish institutions to rehabilitate people and facts whose historical judgment is engraved in the history of our country.</em></blockquote>
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In 2007, Emanuele Filiberto and his father Vittorio Emanuele initiated a request that the Italian government pay them financial damages of 260 million euros well as grant them restitution of all properties and assets that had been confiscated from the Royal House of Savoy after the abolition of the monarchy. Their claim of financial damages was centred on their having suffered "moral injustice" during exile. The Italian government rejected their request.</div>
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<div>For more coverage of this story, please visit this article: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/europe/italy-monarchy-mussolini-apology-letter-scli-intl/index.html">'Too little, too late': Dethroned Italian prince criticized over apology for King's role in rubber-stamping fascist laws</a></div>
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<td class="tr-caption">Queen Frederica of Greece.<br>Photograph (c) Getty Images / Evening Standard.</td>
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<p>On 6 February 1981 at 11:30pm, Queen Frederica of Greece died at Madrid after suffering heart failure following eyelid surgery. She was sixty-three years-old. The queen was survived by her three children: Queen Sofía of Spain, King Constantine II of the Hellenes, and Princess Irene of Greece. </p>
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<td class="tr-caption">The infant Princess Frederica of Hannover.</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">Princess Viktoria Luise holding her daughter Princess Frederica.</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">The Duke and Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg with their five children in 1927.<br>Photograph (c) Smith Archive / Alamy Stock Photo.</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">Princess Frederica with her mother Princess Viktoria Luise.</td>
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<p><br>On 18 April 1917, Princess Friederike Luise Thyra Viktoria Margarete Sophie Olga Cecile Isabelle Christa of Hannover, Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg was born at Blankenburg, Harz. The princess was the first and only daughter of Prince Ernst August of Hannover (1887-1953) and his wife Princess Viktoria Luise (1892-1980; née Prussia). Frederica had four brothers: Prince Ernst August (1914-1987), Prince Georg Wilhelm (1915-2006), Prince Christian (1919-1981), and Prince Welf (1923-1997). Frederica's family moved to Austria when she was still an infant, and she grew up there, in Gmunden. She was educated by her mother and an English governess until, at the age of seventeen, she was sent to school in England. While there, she attended the wedding of Prince George, Duke of Kent, and Princess Marina of Greece. Further studies took Frederica to Florence. It was there that she met her future husband for the first time. At the home of Queen Mother Helen of Romania, Princess Frederica of Hannover was introduced to Crown Prince Paul of Greece, Helen's brother. Upon meeting Paul, Frederica recalled: "<em>I lost my head and my heart.</em>" </p>
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<td class="tr-caption">Prince Ernst August and Princess Viktoria Luise of Hannover with their son-in-law and daughter Crown Prince Paul and Crown Princess Frederica of Greece.</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">The marriage of Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece and Princess Frederica of Hanover.<br>Photograph (c) Hulton Deutsch.</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">Crown Prince Paul and Crown Princess Frederica of Greece.<br>Photograph (c) Getty Images / Imagno.</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">King George VI of the United Kingdom gives his consent to the marriage between Princess Frederica of Brunswick-Luneburg and Prince Paul of Greece, December 1937.<br>Image from The London Gazette.</td>
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<div>Princess Frederica of Hannover married Crown Prince Paul of Greece (1901-1964) at Athens on 9 January 1938. The crown prince was the third son of King Constantine I of the Hellenes (1868-1923) and his wife Queen Sophie (1870-1932; née Princess of Prussia). Paul and Frederica were first cousins once removed; the pair were descendants of Queen Victoria. At the time of her marriage to the Greek heir, Frederica was thirty-fourth in the line of succession to the British throne.<br><br></div>
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<div>During the early years of their marriage, Paul and Frederica resided at a villa in Psychiko. The couple had three children: Princess Sophia (b.1938; later Queen Sofía of Spain), Prince Constantine (b.1940; later King Constantine II of the Hellenes), and Princess Irene (b.1942).</div>
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<div>In 1947, Paul succeeded his brother George II as King of the Hellenes. Political instability in Greece led to the Greek Civil War, which lasted from 1947-1949. As the granddaughter of German Emperor Wilhelm II, the queen was persistently attacked by political opponents of the monarchy for her ancestry. Queen Frederica attended the wedding of her husband's cousin Prince Philip to Princess Elizabeth (future Queen of the United Kingdom). While at the festivities surrounding the marriage, Frederica sat next to Winston Churchill at a dinner. Churchill asked the queen: "<em>Wasn't your grandfather the Kaiser?</em>" Her Majesty retorted that he was indeed her grandfather and that "<em>If you had Salic Law in England, my father would be your King today!</em>" Standing five feet three inches tall, Frederica was remembered by many who encountered the queen for "<em>her informal manner, easy smile, curly brown hair, and laughing eyes.</em>" Like so many consorts, Frederica was an iron first within a velvet glove. A woman of immense internal strength and willpower, the queen did all she could to protect what she believed to be the best interests of her husband and her son. </div>
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<td class="tr-caption">King Constantine II of Greece with Queen Mother Frederica at the funeral of King Paul.</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">King Constantine II of Greece with Queen Mother Frederica at the funeral of King Paul.<br>Pictured behind them is Princess Irene.<br>Photograph (c) Getty Images / Jack Garofalo.</td>
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<td class="tr-caption">King Constantine II of Greece with his mother Queen Frederica at the funeral of King Paul.<br>Photograph (c) Getty Images / Keystone.</td>
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King Paul of Greece died on 6 March 1964, aged sixty-two. He had been suffering from cancer, and, during his final days, his wife became ill with a case of pneumonia. Frederica became a widow at forty-six. After her son King Constantine II married his cousin Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark in September 1964, Queen Mother Frederica stepped back from most of her public duties in favour of her daughter-in-law. Alas, Frederica remained a figure of controversy: she was accused in the Greek press of being the éminence grise behind the throne.</div>
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<td class="tr-caption">Queen Mother Frederica of Greece with her daughter Princess Sofía and grandchildren, 1968.<br>Infanta Pilar is pictured in the background.</td>
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<div>In 1967, the Greek royal family left the country following Constantine II's failed counter-coup against the military dictatorship. The family first settled in Rome and then in London. Frederica accompanied her son into exile. The queen mother often visited her daughter Sofía and family in Madrid. Along with her daughter Irene, Frederica spent a great deal of time in Madras, India. The queen mother was extremely interested studying Indian culture. In 1976, Queen Sofía of Spain and her children flew to India as Queen Frederica was reported to be in delicate health. </div>
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<div>After her death in 1981, Queen Mother Frederica of Greece was buried next to her husband King Paul at Tatoi.</div>
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<p><br>On 6 February 1951, Princess Marie-Christine Daphné Astrid Elisabeth Léopoldine of Belgium as born at Laeken as the second child and eldest daughter of King Léopold III of the Belgians (1901-1983) and his second wife Mary Lilian Baels (1916-2002; created Princess de Réthy). As such, Marie-Christine (who sometimes goes by her middle name: Daphné) is the half-sister of King Albert II of the Belgians (b.1934) and the late Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg (1928-2005; née Belgium) and King Baudouin of the Belgians (1930-1993); these three were the children of Léopold III and his first wife Queen Astrid (1905-1935; née Sweden).<br><br></p>
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<p><br>Since 1980, Princess Marie-Christine of Belgium has lived in the United States of America. She now is a resident of Sequim, Washington; the town has a population of less than 7,000 people. The princess resides there with her second husband, Jean-Paul Gourgues; the couple celebrated their thirtieth wedding anniversary on 28 September of this year.<br><br></p>
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<p><br>The only member of Marie-Christine's family to remain in contact with her is Princess Marie-Esmeralda (b.1956), Marie-Christine's only full sister. In regards to her sister, Esmeralda has stated: "<em>Marie-Christine does not want any more contact. Not with the family, not with the friends of the past. It is her choice. She says she has a new life. This situation has been going on for three or four years now. It makes me sad, but I respect her decision. I tried, but she really does not want anything else. I cannot force her.</em> "<br><br></p>
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<p>Marie-Christine has been estranged from the Belgian royal family for most of her adult life; the princess did not attend the funerals of her parents or of her brother Prince Alexandre (1942-2009). She had a difficult relationship with her mother, the Princess de Réthy, who was a rather strong character. In 1981, Princess Marie-Christine was very briefly married to Canadian Paul Druker (1937-2008). In 1989, the princess married her second husband Jean-Paul, a native of Bordeaux.<br><br></p>
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Photograph (c) Seeger-Press/Nieboer.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>On 7 February 1951, Prince Albrecht Ernst Otto Joseph Maria Notger zu Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Spielberg was born at Munich. The prince was the eldest son and third child of Fürst Alois zu Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Spielberg (1920-1975) and Fürstin Elisabeth (1922-2005; née Countess zu Lynar), who had married in 1946. Albrecht has four sisters: Princess Franziska (1947-2011; married Fürst Ferdinand zu Hohenlohe-Bartenstein), Princess Alexandra (b.1948; married Fürst Hubertus Fugger von Babenhausen), Princess Gabriele (b.1953; married Peter Gollwitzer), and Princess Margarita (1957-2000; married Prince Franz von Lobkowicz). Upon the death of his father in 1975, Albrecht succeeded as Fürst zu Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Spielberg. </p><table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiATaySFcNafyxMimWXxPBYTPfiOSl402mkiAl00PnGrmVkQ4Y-wOVFInMvQmNpwolKb78Zu8srTIASCitg3I7JQNyHNSYF85WqLsv_xpVaC4JRPZiGVEH5Jt2LlZ6VZ9d9ifAKjC5cYpc/s700/00125516.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img data-original-height="469" data-original-width="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiATaySFcNafyxMimWXxPBYTPfiOSl402mkiAl00PnGrmVkQ4Y-wOVFInMvQmNpwolKb78Zu8srTIASCitg3I7JQNyHNSYF85WqLsv_xpVaC4JRPZiGVEH5Jt2LlZ6VZ9d9ifAKjC5cYpc/w640-h428/00125516.jpg" width="640" border="0" height="428"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left to right: Duke Philipp of Württemberg, Fürstin Angela, the late Duke Friedrich of Württemberg, and Fürst Albrecht at the wedding of Duchess Fleur of Württemberg, 2004.
Photograph (c) Seeger-Press/Kirkham. </td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1980, Fürst Albrecht married Angela Jank (b.1951). The Fürst and Fürstin have four children: Hereditary Prince Franz-Albrecht (b.1982; married Baroness Cleopatra von Adelsheim von Ernest), Princess Theresa (b.1984; married Carl-Christian Oetker), Princess Antonia (b.1987), and Princess Nora (b.1990; married Lord Max Percy). </p><table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbA0viy4kKVyOU5VuqEnbl8qbiZC8VaV926SUWINzZEc7zB4wYY3tIz-QdIYX0QdE7exN4umhD4OTLSzdk2hDiVI7NHIFRG3fKF_60-VcFVLcFkIe4KimVDEmAuaUI7qPHwB7cbojlYJ4/s700/00002425.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="460" data-original-width="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbA0viy4kKVyOU5VuqEnbl8qbiZC8VaV926SUWINzZEc7zB4wYY3tIz-QdIYX0QdE7exN4umhD4OTLSzdk2hDiVI7NHIFRG3fKF_60-VcFVLcFkIe4KimVDEmAuaUI7qPHwB7cbojlYJ4/w640-h420/00002425.jpg" width="640" border="0" height="420"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From left to right: Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Hereditary Carl-Eugen zu Oettingen-Wallerstein, Fürst Moritz zu Oettingen-Wallerstein, and Fürst Albrecht zu Oettingen-Spielberg surround the coffin of Duke Albrecht of Bavaria.
Photograph (c) Seeger-Press.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Oettingen-Spielbergs are a steady presence at Gotha events, both on the Continent and in the United Kingdom. The fürst was among the chief mourners at the funeral of Duke Albrecht of Bavaria. In 2011, Fürst Albrecht and Fürstin Angela attended the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. When their only son Franz-Albrecht married model/noblewoman Cleopatra in 2016, Prince Harry (now Duke of Sussex) was in attendance. </p><div style="text-align: center;"><b>______________</b></div><p><b></b>
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Joseph and Anna Louise married in 2018. Joseph (b.1989) is the younger son of Prince Philippe of Bourbon-Parma (b.1949) and his wife Annette Smith (b.1955), who married in 1979. Joseph has an elder brother, Jacques (b.1986). Anna Louise (b.1988) is the daughter of Leo Budd and Lilla Vibeke Bøgeløv.
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<p>HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was admitted to King Edward VII Hospital in London yesterday evening. Born on 10 June 1921, the duke is ninety-nine years-old. The Duke of Edinburgh is expected to remain in hospital for a number of days. </p>
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<p><br>On 18 February 1981, Charles Robert George Innes-Kerr, Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford, was born at Edinburgh to Guy and Jane, the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe. Charles' parents, Guy Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe (1954-2019) and Lady Jane Grosvenor (b.1953; daughter of the Duke of Westminster), had wed in 1977. Guy and Jane had three children: Lady Rosanagh (b.1979; married James Walter Grimston, Viscount Grimston), Charles (the heir), Lord Edward (b.1984; married Celia Brook). Guy Roxburghe and Jane Grosvenor divorced in 1990. In 1992, the 10th Duke of Roxburghe married Virginia Mary Williams-Wynn, with whom he had two further children: Lady Isabella (b.1994), and Lord George (b.1996).</p>
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<p>Charles Innes-Ker was educated at Eton College and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and dated Lord Beaverbrook’s daughter, the Hon. Charlotte Susanna Aitken (b.1982), for many years. On 22 July 2011, the couple were married at London. The wedding announcement placed in The Telegraph by the bride's father read as follows:</p>
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<blockquote><em>The marriage took place on Friday, July 22, at the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Warwick Street, London, between Charles, eldest son of the Duke of Roxburghe and Lady Jane Dawnay, and Charlotte, elder daughter of Lord and Lady Beaverbrook. Dom Edward Corbould officiated, assisted by the Rev Anthony Hogg. </em>
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<div>After a relationship of several years, in April 2016, Charles welcomed the birth of a daughter, Eugenie, with his partner Morvarid Sahafi, a fashion designer. Alas, the couple parted ways in 2019, which was the same year that Charles succeeded as 11th Duke of Roxburghe upon the death of his father Guy, who had been battling cancer. </div>
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<div>The Duke of Roxburghe's primary residence is Floors Castle.</div>
<p><br>In January 2021, the engagement was announced between the Duke of Roxburghe and Annabel Green.</p>
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<div>Princess Mechtilde zu Leiningen and her husband Karl-Anton Bauscher speak with Hereditary Prince Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen at the funeral of Fürst Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 2004.</div>
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<p>On 12 February 2021, Mechtilde Bauscher died at Bamberg. She was eighty-five years-old. </p>
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<p>Born at Würzburg on 2 January 1936, HSH Princess Mechtilde Alexandra zu Leiningen was the fifth child and third daughter of Fürst Karl zu Leiningen (1898-1946) and his wife Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia (1907-1951). Karl and Maria, who married in 1925, had seven children born during their union: Fürst Emich (1926-1991; married Duchess Eilika of Oldenburg), Prince Karl Wladimir (1928-1990; married Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria), Princess Kira-Melita (1930-2005; married Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia), Princess Margarita (1932-1996; married Fürst Friedrich Wilhelm of Hohenzollern), Princess Mechtilde, Prince Friedrich (1938-1998), and Prince Peter-Viktor (1942-1943).</p>
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<p>On 25 November 1961 at Amorbach, Princess Mechtilde zu Leiningen married Karl-Anton Bauscher (b.Grafenwöhr 26 August 1931), an engineer and the son of Rudolf Schöll and Hedwig Fischer. The Bauschers had three sons: Dr. Ulf Bauscher, Berthold Bauscher, and Johann Bauscher. Mechtilde and her family were very close to Prince Andreas of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his family.</p>
<p><strong><em>May the Princess Rest in Peace. </em></strong></p>
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<p><br>On 20 February 2021, the engagement was announced between William Murray, Lord Stormont (b.1 November 1988) and Charlotte Clune (b.December 1989).</p>
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<div>William Philip David Mungo Murray, Viscount Stormont, is the eldest son of Alexander Murray, 9th Earl of Mansfield, 8th Earl of Mansfield (b. 17 October 1956), and his wife Sophia Mary Veronica Ashbrooke (b.22 January 1959), who married in 1985. Lord Stormont's paternal grandparents are William David Mungo James Murray, 7th Earl of Mansfield, 8th Earl of Mansfield (7 July 1930-21 October 2015) and Pamela Joan Foster, who married on 19 December 1955. Lord Stormont's maternal grandparents are Philip Biden Derwent Ashbrooke (d.1993) and Veronica Philippa Stourton (b.31 October 1929), who married on 23 October 1954.</div>
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<div>Charlotte Nevling Clune is the daughter Jonathan Edward Clune (b.17 December 1952) and his wife Sarah Gordon Potter (b.17 August 1950), who married on 10 September 1983 at the First Congregational Church, Deep River, CT. Charlotte's paternal grandparents are Edward Conrad Clune (17 November 1921-14 March 2004) and Margaret Mary Fagan (14 April 1916-June 1990), who married on 19 June 1950. Charlotte's maternal grandparents are Edward Barrie Vernon Potter (9 December 1920-8 May 2010) and Gloria Gordon (15 June 1927-29 October 2009), who married on 1 October 1949.</div>
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<div><strong><em>Our best wishes to the happy couple!</em></strong></div>
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<div><em>Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie and Mr Jack Brooksbank have announced that they have named their son August Philip Hawke Brooksbank. </em></div>
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<div><em>The couple have been touched by the well wishes they have received on the birth of their first child, and are delighted to share this first photograph as a family.</em></div>
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<div>Little August Brooksbank was born at London on 9 February 2021. He is the first child of Jack Brooksbank and Princess Eugenie, who married in 2018. The couple have named their son in honor of his maternal great-grandfather Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b.1921); they have also named him in honor of two of the baby’s 5 x great-grandfathers: Rev. Edward Hawke Brooksbank (1789-1883) on father Jack’s side and Baron Auguste Louis von Senarclens de Grancy (1794-1871) OR Prince Franz August Karl <em>Albert</em> Emanuel of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819-1861; the Prince Consort) on mother Eugenie’s side.</div>
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<div>Master August Brooksbank is eleventh in the line of succession to the British throne.</div>
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<p>Wednesday, 6 January 2021, will not be a day that is fondly remembered by citizens and residents of the United States of America. On this date, the current occupant of the Presidency of the United States presided over a rally in the morning/early afternoon, during which he called for his supporters to "<em>march</em>" to Capitol Hill if the U.S. Congress voted to recognise the results of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As a result, supporters of Donald J. Trump, who was impeached last year, ended up storming Capitol Hill: this resulted in the disruption of the business of the Senate and House of Representatives, the assault of Capitol Hill police officers by Trump-supporting rioters, and the vandalism of the American capitol buildings. These series of awful events have been widely reported, both in the United States and around the world, as an attempted coup d'état. World leaders from Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Norway, and Spain, have condemned the attack on the democratic institutions of the United States.</p>
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<p>As a result, on Wednesday evening, Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece issued a statement on Twitter calling for the 25th Amendment of the United States Constitution to be invoked. The crown prince is well-versed in the consequences of successful coups in democratic countries, as it was one such insurrection that cost Pavlos' father, King Constantine II, his throne and the continuation of the Greek constitutional monarchy. The message of the Crown Prince of Greece is as follows: "<em>When a President accepts and Encourages such behaviour by the public he should no longer be president and the 25th amendment should be invoked. This is an embarrassment to democracy and to the Republic of the United States of America.</em>"</p>
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<p>On Thursday morning, 7 January, Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece issued a similar message via her Twitter account: "<em>I'm not normally political here, but the events that we have seen today in Washington DC are what the 25th amendment was designed for. The President has disgraced the highest office and the Democracy it stands for.</em>" </p>
<p><strong><em>God Bless the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Greece for their support of democracy during a turbulent time.</em></strong></p>
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<p><br><strong>2021-01-01 New Year’s and Christmas Greetings from the Head of the House of Romanoff</strong><br><br>Dear Countrymen! Dear Friends,<br><br>I wish you all a Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!<br><br>The traditional greeting we give each on New Year’s for good health takes on a special meaning this year.<br><br>In the year that has just ended, the entire world was struck by disaster—the spread of the coronavirus, which has led to the untimely deaths of many people close and dear to us.<br><br>We will always remember them and offer our support and condolences to everyone who has lost family and friends.<br><br>We also know that even more lives were saved thanks to the selfless and tireless work of doctors, nurses, and volunteers.<br><br>To them we offer our deepest thanks and the solemn bow of our head.<br><br>During the coming holidays and throughout the next year, we should all exercise good judgment and take preventative measures to keep ourselves safe.<br><br>Now, as effective means of combating coronavirus are being developed and improved, it would be especially tragic to fall victim to this illness.<br><br>It would be like being killed by the last bullet at the end of a war.<br><br>Therefore, let us be rational and attentive to ourselves and to each other.<br><br>We must not lose faith in God’s mercy.<br><br>We must not allow decency in our interactions with others to be destroyed under the pretext of fighting the pandemic.<br><br>But we must also remember the words of Christ our Savior: “Do not tempt the Lord thy God.”<br><br>One’s attitude about the pandemic should be determined not by some or other ideology, but by the simple duty each of us has as a human being and as a citizen—by the sense of responsibility we have to ourselves and to others.<br><br>I and my son and heir, Grand Duke George of Russia, hope that you may all celebrate the New Year and Christmas in joy, confidence in your strength, and in the firm hope for a better future. I wish you all health and happiness in the coming year!<br><br>May the Lord protect Russia and all her sons and daughters around the world!<br><br>H.I.H. The Grand Duchess Maria of Russia<br>Head of the Imperial House of Russia</p>
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<p><strong>A Gotha Quiz: Who Are We?</strong></p>
<p><strong>By Darren Shelton, for the European Royal History Journal.</strong></p>
<p>"Before we married, I loved my future wife from afar. She, however, loved another. I approached the apple of her eye and told him my plight. He spoke to her and set her straight and opened the path for me to propose. She accepted and we had a large family - of which four of our children were two sets of twins. </p>
<p>As a hint, my wife and I shared some ancestry: my maternal grandmother and her paternal grandmother were sisters.</p>
<p>Who Are We?"</p>
<p>The answer will be posted tomorrow. </p>
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<p>On 13 December 2020, HRH Princess Eva Maria of Yugoslavia died in Palm Springs, California. The widow of Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia, the princess was ninety-four years-old. She had lived in Palm Springs for many decades. Born on 26 August 1926 at Vrnjacka-Banja, Serbia, Milica "<em>Mitzi</em>" Anđelković was the only daughter of Milan Anđelković and Eva Jovanović. Mitzi had a brother, Milan. Her parents eventually divorced. Sometime in the 1940s, Milica Anđelković married a Mr Smiljanic. After World War II, Mitzi Anđelković fled Yugoslavia for the United States as the Communists under Tito took power.</p>
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<p>In 1955, Milica Anđelković married Dr Franklin P Lowe (b.2 April 1922). The couple had two children and lived in California. At some point in the 1950s, Mitzi Lowe also met King Peter II of Yugoslavia, who became friends with Mitzi and her husband Frank. It is believed that Mitzi looked after the king when he was ill, which he often was due to complications from alcoholism and depression. When King Peter II died in 1970, Mitzi Lowe was the executor of his will. Prince Tomislav writes in his memoirs that Mitzi first met Prince Andrej at the funeral of his brother the King. <a href="https://www.leagle.com/decision/1979104138irtcm10031790">Dr Frank Lowe and Mrs Mitzi Lowe were divorced on 18 March 1974</a>. By the end of the year, both had remarried. </p>
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<p>On 30 March 1974, Mitzi Lowe married Prince Andrej "<em>Andy</em>" of Yugoslavia (b.Bled 28 Jun 1929) in Palm Springs. Andrej's brother Tomislav tried to prevent Andrej from marrying that "problematic woman," as Tomislav called her, but the prince could not prevent the marriage. Andrej was the youngest son of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (1888-1934) and Queen Marie (1900-1961; née Princess of Romania). From 1956 until their divorce in 1962, the prince was married to Princess Christina "<em>Christa</em>" of Hesse (1933-2011), the daughter of Prince Christoph of Hesse and Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, a sister of the Duke of Edinburgh. From 1963 until their divorce in 1972, Prince Andrej was married to Princess Kira zu Leiningen (1930-2005), the daughter of Fürst Karl zu Leiningen and Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia. After the marriage, Mitzi was styled and titled as HRH Princess Eva Maria of Yugoslavia. </p>
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<p>Prince Andrej and Princess Eva Maria were active on the social scene in California and visited Serbian communities abroad. In a November 1984 visit to Australia, the prince elaborated on his life in the United States: "Palm Springs is an extraordinary little town. In summer it has a small population with semi-retired and professional people,<em> former USA presidents. In winter, many more people arrive.</em>" Princess Eva Maria added: "<em>We are there for six to seven months a year and we have black-tie dinners - very formal - six to seven balls a year and lots of parties.</em>" At the time it was noted that Prince Andrej was retired, but open to getting involved in business activities again if the right opportunity presented itself. In the past, he had worked as a consultant at ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc., in Costa Mesa, California.</p>
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<p>What seemed to be a good opportunity presented itself to Andrej in the form of Comparator Systems Corporation, an electronics company founded in 1976. Around 1986, the prince took the position as Head of International Marketing at the company. In a 1997 exposé on Comparator and its fallout by <em>Orange Coast Magazine</em>, Princess Eva Maria cooperated fully. After all, it was widely believed that her husband's role at the company, and the subsequent things that he learned about its dire financial position, had contributed to his early death. </p>
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<p>Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia died by apparent suicide in the form of carbon monoxide poisoning inside his black Mercedes-Benz on 6 May 1990; the car was parked in the garage at the Comparator offices in Irvine, California, and the lifeless prince's body was discovered by the company's corporate secretary. Regarding her husband's passing at the age of sixty, Eva Maria recalled: "<em>It was a terribly, terribly shocking tragedy.</em>" Andrej's attraction to Comparator was rooted in the innovative patent technology that the company was marketing: a fingerprint scanner, which would allow businesse to be able to tell whether the person whose finger was scanned was actually the individual they claimed to be. The princess elaborated: "<em>He [Andrej] believed that the product was a good thing for security, hotels, banks and things like that. And he was always fascinated by anything mechanical, any gadgetry.</em>" Comparator's CEO Robert Rogers was charismatic, polite, and convincing; in the 1970s, however, Rogers was reprimanded by stock regulators for the unlawful issuing of securities. When Robert Rogers met Prince Andrej, he was certain that having a bonafide royal prince associated with the company would be an immense asset. Despite the apparently wonderful product on hand, Comparator's sales were not remarkable, and the company appeared to be struggling. Prince Andrej went on a business trip with the company's CEO to Switzerland and returned home in a depressed state. Andrej's wife remembered her husband confiding: "<em>They didn't have any money so I paid the hotel bills with a credit card.</em>" This trip was a warning of what was to come. "<em>Cars would be repossessed, telephones would be disconnected. This was when my husband came to the rescue</em>," Eva Maria stated. When Eva Maria would raise her concerns about Comparator with her husband, Andrej would reply: "<em>You just don't understand these things.</em>" In 1989, Andrej loaned the company $60,000 from a certificate of deposit which the couple possessed. For most of his time as the Head of International Marketing, Andrej as well as a good deal of the other twenty employees of Comparator had been compensated by being given stock in the company. However, by May 1990, Andrej wanted to recoup the money he had lent. On 5 May, Andrej and Eva Maria were being visited by Andrej's son Prince Karl Vladimir, who was visiting his father from Europe. On that day, the prince told his wife that he needed to go to the Irvine office in order to meet with Robert Rogers; Andrej phoned Eva Maria several times to confirm that he was expecting the meeting to occur that day. When the prince did not arrive back in Palm Springs for dinner, his wife became worried. It was early in the morning of 6 May 1990 that Summer Churchill, the company's corporate secretary, found the prince's body. Ms Churchill recalled: "<em>He was sitting there slumped over. I reached in to find a carotid artery. There was no carotid. So I knew he was dead.</em>"</p>
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<p>Although the princess did not think that the prince was suicidal, she did feel that when he found out about the true state of affairs at the company in which he was so invested that he might have thought there was no other solution but to take his life. Regardless, Princess Eva Maria of Yugoslavia would never forgive herself for the fate that befell her husband. "<em>In a way part of this is my fault. I should have put my foot down and I didn't. Whenever I think of my husband, I blame myself.</em>" Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia was initially buried in the United States. In 2013, his remains were reburied at the Karageorgevich dynasty's mausoleum at Oplenac.</p>
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<p>In the thirty years since her husband's death, Princess Eva Maria of Yugoslavia lived a very private life. It is not known where the princess was buried.</p>
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Photograph (c) David Niviere/Abaca/Sipa USA/Sip</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>These photographs of Nicholas of Romania, his wife Alina-Maria, and their daughter Maria-Alexandra were taken at the Domain of the Manasia Estate on 22 November by David Nivière. Maria-Alexandra was born at Bucharest on 7 November. The little one is a granddaughter of Princess Helen of Romania, a great-granddaughter of King Michael of Romania, a great-great-great-granddaughter of Duke Roberto I of Parma, a great-great-great-great-granddaughter of King Miguel I of Portugal, and a great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. </p><table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmXXuscJJERVKjvaztr91sPKi4ct_BshrO-W9M8bvZuKnvy_eshNCj8X4uxDH22Ulg-p2bYPr5i2XiNVg0-k8smIqN8pqEopspKvi6LmBvxhhebdoRCacNDmhbuyOgIisxM6sZgHYIqjA/s1000/LGN50823686.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="667" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmXXuscJJERVKjvaztr91sPKi4ct_BshrO-W9M8bvZuKnvy_eshNCj8X4uxDH22Ulg-p2bYPr5i2XiNVg0-k8smIqN8pqEopspKvi6LmBvxhhebdoRCacNDmhbuyOgIisxM6sZgHYIqjA/w426-h640/LGN50823686.jpg" width="426" border="0" height="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photograph (c) David Niviere/Abaca/Sipa USA/Sip</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWhKJ5Njo_Lb_re85mMaLWZM40iPfcRzSuVrb1oM5l3X6pzOfBlwlQruNs734J_dkQr5Q3hIvuyt1dqhbswHcneGBnTp-gU7LEsG-NXy4epswUn_tLOSsZNQSNLd0v_Ag15bUknIXw9ZE/s1000/LGN50823696-2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="667" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWhKJ5Njo_Lb_re85mMaLWZM40iPfcRzSuVrb1oM5l3X6pzOfBlwlQruNs734J_dkQr5Q3hIvuyt1dqhbswHcneGBnTp-gU7LEsG-NXy4epswUn_tLOSsZNQSNLd0v_Ag15bUknIXw9ZE/w426-h640/LGN50823696-2.jpg" width="426" border="0" height="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photograph (c) David Niviere/Abaca/Sipa USA/Sip</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<td class="tr-caption">Infanta Alicia of Spain, Dowager Duchess of Calabria, and her grandson Don Rodrigo Moreno y de Borbón attend the wedding of the Prince of Asturias in 2004.<br>Photograph (c) Julián de Domingo.</td>
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<p>Born in 1962, Rodrigo Moreno y Borbón-Dos Sicilias is the eldest of the seven children of Don Iñigo Moreno y Arteaga (b.1934), Marqués de Laserna, and his wife Princess Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b.1937). Rodrigo's paternal grandparents are Don Francisco de Asís Moreno y de Herrera (1909-1979), Conde de Los Andes, and his wife Doña Maria Teresa de Jesús de Arteaga y Falguera (d.1962), Marquesa de La Eliseda. Rodrigo's maternal grandparents are Infante Alfonso of Spain (1901-1964), Duke of Calabria, and his wife Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma (1917-2017). Rodrigo's first cousin is Prince Pedro of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria. Rodrigo Moreno y de Borbón is a great-great grandson of King Alfonso XII of Spain (1857-1885) and his wife Queen Maria Cristina (1858-1929; née Archduchess of Austria).</p>
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<p>Born in 1981, Casilda Ghisla Guerrero-Burgos y Fernández de Córdoba is the only child of the late Doña Casilda Fernández de Córdoba y Rey (1941-1998), Duquesa de Cardona, and her second husband Don Antonio Guerrero Burgos (1924-1984). At her baptism in October 1981, Casilda Ghisla had Doña Angela Téllez-Girón y Duque de Estrada, XVI Duquesa de Osuna, and Don Francesco Guerrero Burgos stand as her godparents. Casilda Ghisla's maternal grandparents are Don Luis Jesús Fernández de Córdoba y Salabert (1880-1956), XVII Duque de Medinaceli, and his second wife Doña María de la Concepción Rey de Pablo Blanco (d.1971). The Duchess of Cardona was previously married to Emilio Prieto y Reina; from this marriage she has one daughter, Doña Casilda Prieto y Guerrero-Burgos. The Duchess of Cardona's maternal aunt was the well-known Doña Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba y Fernández de Henestrosa (1917-2013), XVIII Duquesa de Medinaceli, who counted among her children-in-law a Prince zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg and a Princess of Orléans-Bragança.</p>
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<br>Don Rodrigo Moreno y Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Doña Casilda Ghisla Guerrero-Burgos y Fernández de Córdoba, Duquesa de Cardona, are fourth cousins. The couple both descend from Don Andrés Avelino de Arteaga y Carvajal Vargas (1807-1850), marqués de Valmediano, and his wife Doña Fernanda María de Silva-Bazán y Téllez-Girón (1808-1879).
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