Embed from Getty Images  May 1, 2024 Today is Lady Sarah Chatto's 60th birthday.  She is the fourth and final 1964 royal baby.  The other three are James Ogilvy (February 29),  the Duke of Edinburgh (March 10),  and Lady Helen Taylor (April 28).  One newspaper wrote: "The Princess's baby completes the quartet of royal babies expected this year." Lady Sarah is the second and younger child of HRH Princess Margaret Rose and Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon.  Princess Margaret was the younger sister of the late Queen Elizabeth II, who died in Septembe ..read more

  Konstantin Johannsman, Princess Nathalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Countess Ingrid von Pfiel und Klein-Ellguth, King Frederik X and Queen Mary, Count Michael Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille, Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Count Richard von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth  @Kungehuset On April 29 - Princess Benedikte's 80th birthday - King Frederik X and Queen Mary hosted a luncheon for the Princess, the king's maternal aunt, at Frederik VIII's Palace ..read more

Beatrice von Preussen, 43, gave birth to her first child, Cecile Rosetta Robin Preussen.  Beatrice is the eldest daughter of Prince Nicholas von Preussen and his former wife, the Hon. Victoria Mancroft.   She married Edmund Jenner on February 5, 2022. Victoria - Victoria - Wilhelm II - Wilhelm - Friedrich - Nicholas  - Beatrice - Cecilie  Beatrice is also a descendant of the Guinness (Earl of Iveagh) family through her mother, Lady Brigid Guinness, younger daughter of Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh, and Lady Gwendolyn Onslow ..read more

  @kongehuset HRH Princess Benedikte Astrid Ingeborg Ingrid of Denmark was born April 29, 1944 at the Frederik VIII's Palace at Amalienborg in Copenhagen.  She was born during the German occupation of Denmark in the Second World War.   She is the second of three daughters of King Frederik IX of Denmark and Princess Ingrid of Denmark.  Her two sisters are Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Queen Anne Marie of the Hellenes. Queen Anne Marie, Princess Benedikte & Queen Margrethe II  4/28/2024 @Kongehuset She was baptized on May 24, 1944 ..read more

Embed from Getty Images Lady Helen Marina Lucy Taylor is the second child and only daughter of HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, and Katharine Worsley.  She was born on April 28, 1964, the third of the four royal babies born that year.   She was born at Coppins, in Iver, Buckinghamshire, which belonged to her father, the Duke of Kent, elder son of the late HRH Prince George, Duke of Kent, and HRH Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark.  Lady Helen weighed 7lbs 8 ozs and was born at 10:30  p.m.    The Duke of Kent was not present for the birth as he was station ..read more

Embed from Getty Images  Princess Benedikte, celebrating her 80th birthday today, told the Siegener Zeitung that she would spend the day with her daughters, Alexandra and Nathalie, both her sisters, Queen Margrethe and Queen Anne Marie, her grandchildren, and friends. She noted that her son, Gustav, and his wife, Carina, would not attend her birthday celebration. The Prince and Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berlenburg had a good reason to be absent from Princess Benedikte's party.  On April 26,  Gustav and Carina became parents for the second time.  Their daughter was born ..read more

Embed from Getty Images April 29, 2024  Paul Lambrino, who presents himself as Prince Paul of Romania, has been "detained in Malta," according to the Times of Malta.  Lambrino, 73, was arrested while "attending an event organized by the Knights of Malta." In November 2020, he was found guilty of "corruption related to the illegal restitution" of former royal property.  Lambrino was sentenced to 3.5 years.  When law enforcement showed up at his Bucharest home to bring him to prison, they discovered he had already fled the country.    It was in June 2022 that he wa ..read more

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    Sophie Baroness von Gudenus, who died on April 19, 2024, was the last surviving grandchild of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Countess Sophie Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin.  She was 94 years old. It was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, Bosnia, that was the catalyst for the First World War.  His marriage to Sophie, who was also killed at Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, was morganatic.   Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.  His marriage was morganatic, which meant his wife and their three surviving ..read more

Embed from Getty Images   It's not easy to be a widow.  This is something Lady Gabriella Windsor, who celebrated her 43rd birthday on April 23, is learning.  On February 25, Lady Gabriella's husband, Thomas Kingston was found dead in a building on his parents' property in Kemble, Gloucestershire.  According to the senior coroner for Gloucestershire, Kington's father "forced entry into a locked outbuilding.  Mr. Kingston was found inside with a catastrophic head injury.  A gun was present at the scene.  Police are satisfied the death is not suspicious." The ..read more