buckeburg Archives - History of Royal Women

Herminen-Palais in Bückeburg – The Widow’s Residence

December 4, 2018 Moniek Bloks 1

The Herminen-Palais is also known simply as Palais (Palace) Bückeburg. It lies in the middle of Bückeburg in Germany and was completed in 1896 to serve as the widow’s residence of Princess Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont, the wife of Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe. The Palace served as a military hospital during the Second World War and from [read more]

Schloss Bückeburg – A most unhappy marriage

August 23, 2018 Moniek Bloks 1

While doing research for my next book, I stumbled upon a wedding that took place at Schloss Bückeburg, between Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz and Wilhelm Ernst, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Their wedding took place there as the young woman’s parents had passed and she was under the guardianship of her maternal uncle, Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, who happened [read more]