Assunta Alice Ferdinandine Blanca Leopoldina Margarethe Beatrix Raphaela Michaela Philomena was born on 10 August 1902 to Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria and Infanta Blanca of Spain as their eighth child out of ten. The household full of children – the ten brothers and sisters were very close in age, and every year their parents [read more]
We are all familiar with the tragic story of Princess Mafalda of Savoy, the daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943, sent to Buchenwald concentration camp where she died a year later. But there is another royal story that is far less famous but equally tragic [read more]
She received the name of the most beautiful princess of the Muhammad Ali dynasty in Egypt (her grandfather’s sister, Empress Fawzia, who was the first wife of Iran’s Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi), she was born far away from the country of her ancestors, she never saw her father or other relatives ruling, she has a [read more]
Whether we like it or not…our lives are determined to a certain degree not only by individual choices and circumstances but also by history…the history that happens around us, in our corners of the world and during our lifetimes. And the first half of the 20th century was – at least in Europe – a [read more]
If you are an internationally renowned journalist working for respectable media outlets such as BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, United Press International, and Radio Monte Carlo, if you have an outstanding career and the freedom to be whoever you want to be…. would you give it all up to become a princess? Probably this is a complicated [read more]
On the morning of the 14th of July 1958, the world woke up to the shocking news of the murder of King Faisal II of Iraq. But probably, few people were more shocked than the beautiful fiancé of the young King, Princess Sabiha Fazila. Educated in Britain at Harrow, along with his more famous cousin, [read more]
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