Queen Geraldine of Albania is a moving example of how circumstances, history and people can draw the fate of a beautiful girl dragging her along life’s twists and turns and giving her a single chance to cope with whatever it is thrown on her path. Countess Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Appony was born the daughter of [read more]
They called her “the Princess with sad eyes”, “the Queen of sorrow”, but it all started differently in a time when happiness seemed the only natural option. The Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was, in 1948, recently separated from his first wife, Princess Fawzia of Egypt, when he met Soraya, a beautiful young lady, [read more]
“We were never happy”. These are the words of Marie José, Princess of Belgium and last Queen of Italy, talking to a journalist in 1988 about her marriage to King Umberto. But these could have been the words of any woman whose life has been decided by others and by a tragic history that disrupted [read more]
Eastern European monarchies are a still untapped source of great stories and exceptional human and national destinies. At the end of the Second World War, the whole region found itself under Soviet influence, the monarchies were abolished, and communist republics were established by force and fraud, as it was the case in Romania, Bulgaria, former [read more]
Princess Neslişah Sultan was the granddaughter of Sultan Wahideddin, the 36th and last Ottoman ruler, therefore an acknowledged descendant of the Ottoman dynasty who once ruled over half of the world. At her death, in 2012, in Istanbul, the Turkish authorities organised a national funeral and recognised her as being of the same bloodline as Sultan Mohamed [read more]
Princess Helen of Greece is an outstanding figure of Romanian history although little known to the larger public. The fact that she left Romania in 1948 after the Communist regime abolished the monarchy and for the next fifty years the royal family was a forbidden topic, contributed largely to the shadows around the figure of [read more]
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