Today is the 85th anniversary of the engagement of Princess Ileana of Roumania and Count Alexander "Lexel" of Hochberg.  It was a ...

Charles Bainbridge, manager of the London branch of the House of Faberge, described Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna as "the most out...

LALOR - William M., 87 of Huntington, on December 2, 2014.Veteran of Korean Conflict 1950-1952. Teacher of History for 35 years at East Mead...

Oh, joy! A truly scholarly book that is a masterpiece, a keeper.  Paul Robinson's Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich (Northern Univer...

Archduke Ernst of Austria (1824-1899) never married or had children, at least according to the official story.   Ernst, a cousin of ...

From Publisher's Weekly :  Henry Holt and Company has inked a deal to buy Time magazine editor-at-large Catherine Mayer’s new biography...

               Now available from Amazon Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna .  (And if you order through this link, I earn ...