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Saturday, November 9, 2013

Looking back: 1984

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.

Prince Moritz at Kronberg


Empress Alexandra  Russian Chapel Darmstadt

Schloss Ehrenburg

Archduchess Alexandra and Victor von Baillou

Ehrenburg.  As I was on a private tour, I danced around the ballroom

Prince Friedrich Josias of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Veste)


Ernst Ludwig and Eleonore  (Rösenhohe)

Marie of Romania by Kaulbach. Privately owned by Archduchess Alexandra

Guillaume II place Luxembourg,


Almost like the postcard

Prince Ludwig of Hesse (husband of Margaret)



Princess Elisabeth of Hesse


Grand Ducal Palace



Named for Empress Alexandra  - in Darmstadt 

Graves of Princes Alexander and Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine



Schloss Langenburg

Schloss Langenburg





Schloss Langenburg

Rosenhohe

Sitting by the steps at Kronberg

Langenburg

Vicky's room  Kronberg

Kronberg

Veste, Coburg


Ileana and family (Archduchess Alexandra)

Marlene at Goebel -

Marie Alexandrovna  Coburg



Kronberg

Cute guard outside Grand Ducal Palace.  This young man is 29 years older now

Kronberg

Duchess Luise's bedroom Ehrenburg

Kronberg

Margarita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (nee Greece)

Ehrenburg

Kronberg

Gottfried of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Langenburg





Langenburg

Langenburg

Langenburg

Coburg


Vicky  Kronberg

The Hohenlohe-Langenburgs , Kraft & Charlotte and their three children: Cecile, Philipp & Xenia and Kraft's aunt, Irma.

Margaret of Hesse and by Rhine



Vicky's bedroom at Kronberg



Langenburg

Princess Elisabeth's playhouse at Wolfsgarten

Rosenau

Ehrenburg

Veste

Eleonore of Hesse   at Wolfsgarten



Having a most excellent meal at Kronberg



Ernst Ludwig  Wolfsgarten

Albert statue in Coburg

Marlene in Princess Elisabeth's playhouse

Stop.  You have reached the end of your destination.  The border with the DDR near Coburg,  









Vianden  Luxembourg




Portrait of Marie Adelaide at Vianden

Ehrenburg

Ehrenburg



Carl Eduard

Luxair  Plane named for Princess Margaretha

Ehrenburg



Ehrenburg



Wee high above Vianden

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 ...

Ehrenburg




Vicky











Ehrenburg





Carl Eduard

Me and Marty  at the Veste.



Cute

kranichstein














Kranichstein





Prince Georg Palace  Darmstadt












Russian Chapel   Darmstadt









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11 comments:

  1. NancyNovember 10, 2013 at 1:40 AM

    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.

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  2. BeaNovember 10, 2013 at 12:17 PM

    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

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  3. Marlene Eilers KoenigNovember 10, 2013 at 1:12 PM

    Thanks, Bea. Have run out of coupons so won't be making any more books for awhile.

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  4. BeaNovember 11, 2013 at 12:31 AM

    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

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  5. Marlene Eilers KoenigNovember 11, 2013 at 9:18 AM

    Yes, the photo includes Princess Irma. Yes, she did carry her handbag around the house.

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  6. JohnNovember 11, 2013 at 5:12 PM

    HOW fascinating. I know this is a probably silly and personal question, but do you speak perfect German?

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  7. Marlene Eilers KoenigNovember 11, 2013 at 8:13 PM

    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.

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  8. UnknownNovember 6, 2017 at 8:06 PM

    Thanks for sharing these marvellous pictures. What great memories you have.

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  9. Stavros SkenderisNovember 9, 2019 at 7:58 PM

    In the pics at Langenburg, whose wedding was that? Interesting to see the Queen at a family wedding on the Continent..

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  10. Marlene Eilers KoenigNovember 10, 2019 at 1:55 PM

    Norton and Penny, now the earl and countess of Mountbatten .. wedding at Romsey in Hampshire, not on the Continent

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  11. The EpicureanApril 25, 2023 at 1:59 AM

    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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