Royal Central is taking a look at the princess consorts of Monaco in a new series. This edition focuses on Antoinette de Mérode.
Born on 28 September 1828, Antoinette Ghislaine de Merode was born in Brussels, Belgium, to Count Werner de Merode and Countess Victoire de Spangen d’Uyternesse.
The day she turned 18, a “golden-haired” Antoinette married Prince Charles III of…
Today we’re looking back at some of Princess Grace’s most stylish moments of the 1980s. Before her untimely death in 1982, Grace maintained an active schedule of royal duties. She also struck up a friendship with Diana, Princess of Wales, prior to her wedding, and the…
Today we’re looking back at some of Princess Grace’s most stylish moments of the 1970s. This decade saw her as a hard-working royal who also took part in family events and made her way back to Hollywood several times for events. Perhaps the biggest event of the decade…
Yesterday, Princess Charlene of Monaco revealed the first-year school photos of her and Prince Albert II’s four-year-old twins, Princess Gabriella and Prince Jacques.
The twins are seen in black and white photos in their school uniforms consisting of white collared shirts and dark pants. There were three images in total: one of each twin separately and one of them together.
Princess…
In the lead up to the
90th anniversary of Grace Kelly’s birth, Royal Central looks back at
her life.
Long before she was the Princess of Monaco or Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite cool blonde leading lady, Grace Kelly was a regular all-American girl from Philly. Here we…
It has been over sixty years since fifties Hollywood Princess, Grace Kelly, wed Prince Rainer in a small civil ceremony making her a real-life Princess of Monaco.
On the 18th of April, 1956, Grace looked stylish and elegant as she exchanged vows and became Her Serene…
Today we’re looking back at some of Princess Grace’s most stylish moments of the 1960s. This decade saw her and Prince Rainer welcome their third child, Princess Stéphanie, in 1965; attend the Summer Olympics in Rome in 1960; pay two state visits to Ireland, in 1961 and 1965; and celebrate both the centenary of Monaco and Grace’s 40th birthday towards the end of the…
On 5 January 1956, from her parents’ house, Grace Kelly announced her engagement to Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
“A big day in Philadelphia
when millionaire John B. Kelly’s daughter, film star Grace Kelly, announces her
engagement to Prince Rainier…
As Royal Central marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of one of modern history’s most famous princesses, we are taking a look back at some of Grace’s most stylish moments of the 1950s. This decade saw her rise to Hollywood stardom by the mid ’50s, with an…
Her gown she wore for her religious marriage is one of the most famous royal outfits ever worn and an icon of the 20th century but Grace Kelly had another wedding dress before that celebrated creation. Grace and Prince Rainier III of Monaco said ‘I do’ in a civil ceremony the day before the church service beamed around the world and for that event, this royal bride wore pink.
The two piece…
