According to the Danish news agency «DR»,
doctors from Denmark have been in contact with the doctors in
Toulouse in France who are currently treating Prince Joachim. There
have been several reports about contact between Danish and French
doctors in this case after Prince Joachim needed emergence brain
surgery last week. At the same time, more details emerge of the
dramatic moment the Danish…
On Saturday, it was announced that Prince
Joachim of Denmark, the younger child of Queen Margrethe had an
emergency brain surgery on Friday in France. Now, the Danish press
has revealed that the Prince gave an interview just two hours
before he became ill on Friday. Just…
King Karl XII of Sweden was born 17 June
1682 as the son of King Karl XI and the Danish-born Ulrika
Eleonora. Karl continued his father’s war politics against other
Nordic nations, which led to Denmark joining forces with Poland and
Russia. They then went to war with…
Prince Maurice of Battenberg was Queen
Victoria’s grandson, as he was the son of Victoria’s daughter,
Princess Beatrice and her husband, Prince Henry of Battenberg.
Prince Maurice of Battenberg was born at Balmoral Castle in 1891
and grew up in Great Britain. His elder sister, Princess Victoria
Eugenie of Battenberg married Alfonso XIII of Spain and was Queen
Consort of Spain between 1906 and…
Prince Oskar Wilhelm Karl Hans Kuno of
Prussia was born on 15 July in 1915 at the Marmorpalais (Marble
Palace) near Potsdam in the Kingdom of Prussia. He was the son of
Prince Oscar Karl Gustav Adolf of Prussia and his wife, Princess
Ina-Marie Gräfin of Bassewitz. He was…
Empress Elisabeth of Austria was born as
Duchess in Bavaria in 1837. She enjoyed an informal upbringing
before marrying her first cousin Emperor Franz Joseph I at the age
of sixteen. Empress Elisabeth was recognised as one of the most
beautiful women in Europe and always…
Prince Louis de Valois, Duke of Orleans
was born 13 March 1372 as the second-born son of the French
monarch, King Charles V. Louis de Valois had a close relationship
with his older brother, who had become the King of France by the
age of twelve. Louis was intelligent and relatively well educated
and thrived in the shadow of his brother. In 1374, Louis was
betrothed to Catherine, heir…
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia was the eldest
child of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and Duchess Cecilie of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin. As such, he was the oldest grandchild of the
last Emperor of Germany, Wilhelm II. At his birth, he was second in
line to the German throne and was…
Queen Blanche II was born on 9 June 1424
as the daughter of John II of Aragon, King of Navarre, and his
wife, Queen Blanche I of Navarre. Blanche grew up in the Palace of
the Kings of Navarre of Olite with her family. Blanche was a member
of the House of Trastámara which…
Archduchess Mathilde of Austria was born
in 1849 as the daughter of Archduke Albert, Duke of Teschen and his
wife, Princess Hildegard of Bavaria. She grew up in a wealthy and
charming home with a kind family. During the summer, the family
spent their time at the Weilburg Palace in Baden bei Wien. The
winters were spent in the royal residence in downtown Vienna. The
family was very close to the…
