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Friday, February 28, 2014

Leap Year baby for Princess Alexandra

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February 29, 1964 Princess Alexandra gave birth to a son today, according to the New York Times.  The leap year baby is 13th in line of su...
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Princess Louise is ill

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February 28, 1924 Princess Louise of Belgium is "seriously ill at Wiesbaden," according to a dispatch from the Associated Press....

Is the Crown Prince trying to arrange a peace with Croys

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February 28, 1914 Is Crown Prince Wilhelm, eldest son of the German Emperor, "acting as intermediary" between the Duke of Croy a...

Royal Marriages Act still extant ... for now

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At the most recent Privy Council meeting on February 11, the first order of business was "Declaration of Consent to the marriage of Edw...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Alessandra Torlonia formally presented

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private collection February 27, 1954 Donna Alessandra Torlonia, a "tall blonde, princess," a granddaughter of the late Kin...

von Starhemberg calls for ban on Habsburgs to be lifted

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Embed from Getty Images February 27, 1934 Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, head of the "powerful Fascist Heimwehr"  t...

Nicholas receives communion

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Embed from Getty Images February 27, 1904 After "having fasted," Russian Emperor Nicholas II was driven this morning to Ani...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

An heir for Hanover

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Embed from Getty Images    February 26, 1954 The Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg gave birth this morning to a son in the Frauenklinik i...

Duchess of Genoa has died

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February 26, 1924 The Duchess of Genoa died this evening of "bronchial pneumonia," reports the New York Times.  She had bee...

Royal Flush

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Royal Flush     HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh   In a story that could have been designed to in...

The name of Princess Madeleine's baby

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HRH Princess Madeleine/Kungahuset.se Christopher O'Neill/Kungahuset.se Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neill have name...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Prince Philip calls Beatles helpful

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February 25, 1964 Prince Philip thinks Britain's "rock 'n' roll quartet, the Beatles" are a "helpful" infl...

Princess Margrethe sues furriers

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February 25, 1948 Princess Margrethe of Bourbon-Parma has filed suit against Revillon Freres, a Parisian furriers, reports the Chicago D...
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Queen Elena visits Marie

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February 25, 1938 Queen Elena is visited Dowager Queen Marie of Romania today.  Queen Marie is at Merano in the Italian Tyrol, where she i...

Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz: Suicide

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February 25, 1918 The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz's death has been ruled a suicide, according to a dispatch from Amsterdam to...
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