Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ferdinand and Marie, the Crown Prince and Princess of Romania, pictured after their 1893 marriage Marie grew into a "lovely young woman" with "sparkling blue eyes and silky fair hair"; she was courted by several royal bachelors, including Prince George of Wales, who in 1892 became second in line to inherit the throne. [ 36 ]
This led Ferdinand to remove Prince Carol's name from the royal house of Romania. Ferdinand died from cancer in 1927 and was succeeded by his grandson Michael under a regency formed by three people: Prince Nicholas of Romania, the younger brother of Prince Carol; patriarch Miron Cristea; and president of the Supreme Court of Justice Gheorghe ...
Prince of Hohenzollern r.1905–1927: Ferdinand b.1865 – d.1927 King of Romania 1914–1927: Marie of Edinburgh b.1875 – d.1938 Queen consort of Romania 1914–1927: Karl Anton b.1868 – d.1919: Maria b.1870 – d.1874: Zizi Lambrino b.1898 – d.1953: Carol II b.1893 – d.1953 King of Romania 1930–1940: Helen of Greece b.1896 – d ...
A slice of wedding cake from the nuptials of the future Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip — a full 77 years ago — has sold for over four times its expected value at auction.. After being found ...
On 23 June 1844 he was created Duke of Riánsares by her daughter Queen Isabella II of Spain; 5 April 1836: Charles Ferdinand of the Two Sicilies, Prince of Capua and Penelope Smyth, at Gretna Green; 8 January 1847: Prince George, Duke of Cambridge and actress Sarah Fairbrother, [2] in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act 1772
Prince Nicholas of Romania (Romanian: Principele Nicolae al României; 5 August 1903 – 9 June 1978), later known as Prince Nicholas of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, was the fourth child and second son of King Ferdinand I of Romania and his wife Queen Marie.
In 1911, Prince George of Greece, then second-in-line to the throne and his future wife's second cousin, met Elisabeth for the first time. [6] After the Balkan Wars, during which Greece and Romania were allied, the Greek prince asked for the hand of Elisabeth, but, advised by her great-aunt, she declined the offer, saying that her suitor was too small and too English in his manners.
23. Prince Philip of Coburg-Kohary, husband of No. 18, was the elder brother of Ferdinand, who became the Tsar of Bulgaria in 1887. 24. Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly had only a few more months to live after this photo. The count, whose mother was a princess of Saxe-Coburg, was a cousin of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.