Last week, Princess Marie attended the
official launch event of the “Food with Respect” cookbook in
Copenhagen. Princess Marie took part in the book by writing the
foreword and sharing four of her own recipes but a new interview
with the author of the cookbook and founder of the Stop Wasting
Food Movement, Selina Juul reveals that the Princess was heavily
involved in the creation process of…
New findings on Queen Victoria and the midwife who delivered her
11th November 2019
I first encountered Marian Theodore
Charlotte Heidenreich von Siebold back in 2018 when I was
researching the birth of the future Queen Victoria, ahead of this
year’s bicentenary. Madame Siebold was the skilled German
obstetrician who by an extraordinary circumstance…
American by birth, hugely popular and
credited with helping turn Monaco from a forgotten principality
into a European hotspot – but this isn’t the story of Grace Kelly.
Almost seven decades before her famous marriage to Prince Rainier
III, another US born princess had…
Looking back at the wedding of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace
11th November 2019
The royal wedding of Prince Rainier III
of Monaco to American actress, Grace Kelly was dubbed the “Wedding
of the Century” and took place on the 18th and 19th of April
1956. As one of the most respected and highly paid actresses in
Hollywood, Grace was asked to join the United States Delegation
Committee at the Cannes Film Festival in France in April of 1955.
While there, she was invited…
Princess Haya's website taken offline as trial over custody of her children is set to start
11th November 2019
Update: The website is back online as of
Tuesday, 12 November. As the court hearings in London are set to
begin over the custody of the two children between Princess Haya of
Jordan, 45, and Rule of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid
al-Maktoum, 70, today, Princess Haya’s…
Having wrapped up filming To Catch a
Thief, Grace Kelly, travelled back to the South of France to
promote the movie and attend the Cannes Film Festival. [getty
src=”78951059″ width=”594″ height=”388″] As part of her promotional
duties, the French magazine…
Ippolita Trivulzio holds the distinction
of being the first woman to hold the title of Princess of Monaco.
Today, we are continuing our series by taking a look at the first
princess consort in Monaco. Ippolita Trivulzio was born in 1600 in
Palazzo Trivulzio, Duchy of Milan (what is today Italy), as
the only daughter and younger child of Carlo Emanuele Teodoro
Trivulzio, Count of Melzo and…
On this remembrance weekend, Her Majesty
The Queen will once again lead the nation at the National Service
of Remembrance, held at the Cenotaph in London on Remembrance
Sunday. The service, which includes a two-minute silence at 11 am,
remembers British and Commonwealth…
The power on a chessboard lies with the
queen and now new research indicates the same goes for royal
history. Experts have found that European queens were more likely
to go to war and had greater success in expanding their realms than
any of their male counterparts. The…
Though her acting career was short-lived
compared to her role as the Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly was
certainly one of the top stars in Hollywood in the mid-1950s.
Starting in live television and transitioning to Hollywood
roles—and ultimately winding up as an Oscar-winning, Hitchcockian
ice-blonde cool girl—the myth of Grace Kelly loomed large over
Hollywood lore long after she’d traded…
