Royal News of 2008, Section I
Last Update on
Paul Freiherr Waldbott von Bassenheim died on 20 February.
[He was born on
Archduke Martin of Austria (son of Archduke Robert of Austria-Este
and of his wife, Princess Margherita of Savoy) and his wife, née Princess
Katharina zu Isenburg (daughter of Franz
Alexander Fürst zu Isenburg and of his wife, née Christine Gräfin von Saurma,
Freiin von und zu der Jeltsch) had their second child, Emmanuel Achatius
Franz Alexander, at Pavia on 15 February. (added
Archduke Raimund
(Ramón) of
[He was born in
Crown Prince Philippe of
Paul Druker
(first husband of Princess Marie-Christine of
Dom Eudes de Orléans e Bragança Filho (son of Dom Edues de Orléans e Bragança (b.1939) and of his second
wife, née Mercedes Neves da Rocha) married Patrícia Annechino Landau at
The engagement was
announced between Prince Joachim of
FRANCE
(ORLÉANS)
The engagement was
announced between Prince Charles Philippe d’Orléans (son of Prince Michel
d’Orléans, Comte d’Evreux, and of his wife, née Béatrice de Pasquier de
Franclieu) and Diana Alvares Pereira de
Melo, Duquesa de Cadaval (daughter of Jaime Alvares Pereira de Melo, Duque
de Cadaval, and of his second wife, née Claudine Tritz). The wedding will
reportedly take place at Evora on
The engagement was
announced between Peter Phillips (son of Mark Phillips and of his former
wife, Anne, Princess Royal of Great Britain and
Royal Consent was
given to the mariage between Matthew Shard and Emily Tsering Lascelles
(daughter of David Henry George Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles [son of George
Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (son of Henry
Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, and of his wife, née Mary, Princess
Royal of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), and of his first wife, née Marion
Stein], and of his first wife, née Margaret Messenger). (added
Crown Prince Pavlos of
Prince Vincenz von und zu Liechtenstein died on 13 January.
[He was born at
Prince Boris of
Prince Bernhard van Oranje-Nassau, van Vollenhoven
(second son of Pieter van Vollenhoven and of his wife, Princess Margriet of the
Ari Behn and his wife, Princess Märtha Louise of
Princess Margarita of
Bourbon-Parma, Contessa di Colorno (daughter of Prince Carlos Hugo of
Bourbon-Parma and of his former wife, Princess Irene of the
Alexander James Amherst Burnett of Leys (b.1973, elder son of James
Comyn Amherst Burnett of Leys and of his wife, née Fiona Mercedes Phillips
[herself the daughter of Harold Phillips and of his wife, née Georgina Wernher
(herself the daughter of Sir Harold Wernher, Bt., and of his wife, Countess
Anastasia de Torby [herself the daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of
Russia and of his wife, Sophia Gräfin von Merenberg, Countess de Torby])]) and
his wife, née Lavinia Margaret Cox, had their second child, Thomas Henry
Amherst, on 11 February. (added
SCHAUMBURG-LIPPE
Prince Konstantin zu Schaumburg-Lippe died on16 April.
He was born at Hagenburg on
The engagement was
announced between don Andres de Orleans-Borbon y San Martino d'Agliè (son
of don Alvaro de Orleans-Borbon y Parodi Delfino [himself the son of Don Alvaro
Antonio Carlos Felipe Fernando de Orléans, Duque de Galliera (himself the son
of Infant Alfonso of Spain, Duque de Galliera, and of his wife, née Princess
Beatrice of Great Britain and Ireland), and of his wife, née Carla Parodi de
Delfino] and of his wife, née donna Giovanna San Martino d'Agliè dei marchesi
di Fontanetto e San Germano) and
Anne-Laure van Exter (daughter of the late Robert van Exter and of his
former wife, Marie-Rose Freifrau von Oppenheim, née von Mérey de Kapos-Mere). (added
TWO SICILIES
Prince Ferdinando of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duca di Castro, died in France on 20 March.
[He was born at Podzamcze on