It is a long and tedious process, but I am putting my vacation snaps (in albums) and making Shutterfly photo books. It takes time, and I only do it when I have coupons for Shutterfly. Scanning photographs takes forever! I tended to shoot on average of 13 or more rolls per trip.
In the last few days, I uploaded vacation photos from my trip to Luxembourg and Germany (Darmstadt, Langenburg, Coburg, Kronberg (staying at Schloss Kronberg as the guest of the owner, the Landgrave of Hesse), Heidelberg, Schloss Wolfsgarten and back to Luxembourg for the flight home via Iceland ... when Icelandair flew to Luxembourg!
This trip was in September 1984. I visited Wolfsgarten the day after Prince Harry was born, and we wet his head with champagne.
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| Prince Moritz at Kronberg |
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| Empress Alexandra Russian Chapel Darmstadt |
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| Schloss Ehrenburg |
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| Archduchess Alexandra and Victor von Baillou |
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| Ehrenburg. As I was on a private tour, I danced around the ballroom |
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| Prince Friedrich Josias of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Veste) |
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| Ernst Ludwig and Eleonore (Rösenhohe) |
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| Marie of Romania by Kaulbach. Privately owned by Archduchess Alexandra |
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| Guillaume II place Luxembourg, |
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| Almost like the postcard |
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| Prince Ludwig of Hesse (husband of Margaret) |
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| Princess Elisabeth of Hesse |
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| Grand Ducal Palace |
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| Named for Empress Alexandra - in Darmstadt |
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| Graves of Princes Alexander and Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine |
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| Schloss Langenburg |
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| Schloss Langenburg |
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| Schloss Langenburg |
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| Rosenhohe |
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| Sitting by the steps at Kronberg |
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| Langenburg |
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| Vicky's room Kronberg |
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| Kronberg |
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| Veste, Coburg |
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| Ileana and family (Archduchess Alexandra) |
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| Marlene at Goebel - |
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| Marie Alexandrovna Coburg |
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| Kronberg |
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| Cute guard outside Grand Ducal Palace. This young man is 29 years older now |
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| Kronberg |
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| Duchess Luise's bedroom Ehrenburg |
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| Kronberg |
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| Margarita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (nee Greece) |
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| Ehrenburg |
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| Kronberg |
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| Gottfried of Hohenlohe-Langenburg |
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| Langenburg |
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| Langenburg |
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| Langenburg |
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| Langenburg |
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| Coburg |
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| Vicky Kronberg |
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| The Hohenlohe-Langenburgs , Kraft & Charlotte and their three children: Cecile, Philipp & Xenia and Kraft's aunt, Irma. |
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| Margaret of Hesse and by Rhine |
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| Vicky's bedroom at Kronberg |
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| Langenburg |
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| Princess Elisabeth's playhouse at Wolfsgarten |
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| Rosenau |
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| Ehrenburg |
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| Veste |
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| Eleonore of Hesse at Wolfsgarten |
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| Having a most excellent meal at Kronberg |
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| Ernst Ludwig Wolfsgarten |
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| Albert statue in Coburg |
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| Marlene in Princess Elisabeth's playhouse |
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| Stop. You have reached the end of your destination. The border with the DDR near Coburg, |
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| Vianden Luxembourg |
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| Portrait of Marie Adelaide at Vianden |
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| Ehrenburg |
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| Ehrenburg |
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| Carl Eduard |
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| Luxair Plane named for Princess Margaretha |
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| Ehrenburg |
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| Ehrenburg |
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| Wee high above Vianden |
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| I was on a private tour of Ehrenburg so I got to see Victoria's private WC which she used when she came to Coburg ... |
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| Ehrenburg |
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| Vicky |
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| Ehrenburg |
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| Carl Eduard |
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| Me and Marty at the Veste. |
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| Cute |
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| kranichstein |
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| Kranichstein |
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| Prince Georg Palace Darmstadt |
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| Russian Chapel Darmstadt |
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11 comments:
I'm new to your blog and am enjoying looking through it. On this post, the pictures were lovely but I REALLY wish that they were labeled. There were some that I very truly wanted to know where/what they were. Beautiful memories, I'm certain.
Marlene, these are wonderful photos, you should share them more often. Nice to see an inside glimpse you got of the castles and families. Bea
Thanks, Bea. Have run out of coupons so won't be making any more books for awhile.
Marlene, in the picture of Kraft Hohenlohe and family is the elderly woman Irma Hohenlohe, I remember you mentioned once meeting her and that she carried her purse around. Bea
Yes, the photo includes Princess Irma. Yes, she did carry her handbag around the house.
HOW fascinating. I know this is a probably silly and personal question, but do you speak perfect German?
John, not well. I can read some things, understand what people say at times, but my grandparents and parents spoke it fluently to each other.
Thanks for sharing these marvellous pictures. What great memories you have.
In the pics at Langenburg, whose wedding was that? Interesting to see the Queen at a family wedding on the Continent..
Norton and Penny, now the earl and countess of Mountbatten .. wedding at Romsey in Hampshire, not on the Continent
Marlene, any idea what did Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine (husband of Margaret, Princess of Hesse and by Rhine) die from? He seemed to have passed on early, as his wife survived him by nearly 30 years.
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