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Only weeks after his younger brother Prince Hermann married civilly Isabelle Heubach it was the turn of Hereditary Prince Ferdinand zu Leiningen to tie the knot. He and his bride, Viktoria Luise Prinzessin von Preussen (Princess of Prussia) choose to get married at the Refectory of the family castle in Amorbach, Germany on 29 April […]
It is not allowed to post the pictures elsewhere without permission. Only a few weeks ago it was discovered that Prince Heinrich of Bavaria was going to marry Henriette Gruse on 22 April 2017 at Kloster Andechs. The weather on Saturday was a bit cold and windy, but at least it didn’t rain. The groom […]
If you leave the railway station of Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, this statue is about the first thing you see. A silhouette of two people kissing each other up in the air. Easy to pass when you don’t know a bit more about its history. But it has very much to do with the person, who […]
Nothing is worse than already having booked hotel and train/plane in advance of a wedding, and then new details come to light. It actually happened to me almost ten years ago. I had already booked an early train on Thursday morning to get to Bückeburg in time for the wedding of Alexander Fürst zu Schaumburg-Lippe, […]
I’ve published this rather exclusive picture with permission of Ulrike. Please do not copy or post it elsewhere It will be a busy year for the Princely Family zu Leiningen, as the two sons of Fürst Andreas and Fürstin Alexandra are getting married. The youngest of the two, Prince Hermann (* 1987) kicked off the […]
Photo : RVD/J.M. Rousel.
Nowadays when there has been a big royal wedding there will be at least one wedding book, probably even more than one. And that has been the case already for many, many years. The eldest wedding book in my possession is from 1901. In that year the publishing house “D. Bolle” in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, […]
The day after … When a royal wedding has taken place you have to keep your eyes open for the little souvenirs left by guests when walking around the palace. Not to take home with you of course (if you can reach them), but they’re always good for a photo. The first picture was taken […]
Last modified: 7 January 2017 Tirana, 8 October 2016 When in May 2010 the engagement of Crown Prince Leka II of the Albanians and Elia Zaharia was announced I said right away to myself, that’s a wedding I would like to see personally. But the years went by, Leka’s father King Leka died in 2011 […]
There are always plans. For 2017 I have planned a trip to London and Windsor (Legoland, not the Castle!). Luckily this is just in the period Kensington Palace remembers Princess Diana, who died 20 years ago. Hope to meet at least one of my royalty friends in London. I surely want to go to the […]
The Royalty Digest Quarterly, issue 4/2016 has just been published and includes my report and pictures of the Royal Wedding in Albania in October 2016.
