A case has been lodged in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg last week by five women to remove the state-sanctioned gender bias among the nobility and to give girls and boys equal rights to inherit. In 2013, the royal laws of succession were amended to give equal rights to a baby girl, [read more]
There is still no information on the completion of the examinations of the remains of Tsarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria and it is therefore not expected that these will be recognised in time for the centenary of their deaths on 17 July. Earlier DNA-testing had already confirmed that the remains are those of the [read more]
Her Highness Princess Elisabeth of Denmark has died at the age of 83, the Danish Royal Court has announced. She died yesterday at 6.15 pm surrounded by her closest family. Princess Elisabeth was the daughter of Hereditary Prince Knud and Hereditary Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark and was a first cousin of the present Danish monarch, [read more]
An American-Russian team is digging at in the Perm region and are hoping to find the remains of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, the younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II and his secretary Nicholas Johnson, who were killed by the Bolsheviks on 13 June 1918. It was in Michael’s favour that Nicholas abdicated that fateful March [read more]
A memorial plaque to Princess Gwenllian, daughter and only child of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales and Eleanor de Montfort, has been found vandalised several weeks after it went missing. Princess Gwenllian’s mother died giving birth to her, and her father was killed in battle not much later. Gwenllian was imprisoned for life in the [read more]
With Meghan Markle set to become the first Duchess of Sussex today, we are taking a look at the wives of the first Duke of Sussex, who weren’t allowed to use the title. Prince Augustus Frederick, the sixth son and ninth child of King George III and his consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was created Duke of Sussex in 1801. [read more]
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