Bulgarian Royal Family 1: 2003 - March 2007

[lula]

From Cover

Carla Royo in the FRAGANCE FOUNDATION AWARDS 2006

[boyar]

Nice Pictures.

Can anyone find any new pictures of Kardam, his wife Miriam and their sons Boris and Beltran?

I was looking for pictures of them from 2005 and 2006, but I could not find any.

[Princess Robijn]

Originally Posted by lula

From Cover

Carla Royo in the FRAGANCE FOUNDATION AWARDS 2006

When was the event??

[purple_platinum]

from Cover
06/02/2006
SOCCER PLAYER PEDJA MIJATOVIC, GENOVEVA CASANOVA, KUBRAT OF BULGARIA And PALOMA CUEVAS LEAVING the AIRPORT OF LAS VEGAS

[fanletizia]

HRH Crown Prince Kyril and Princess Rosario arrive for a dinner hosted by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan to launch the Jordan River Foundation in the UK at Banqueting hall in London, 31 May 2006.

http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/447393-post65.html

[Princess Robijn]

Originally Posted by fanletizia

HRH Crown Prince Kyril and Princess Rosario arrive for a dinner hosted by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan to launch the Jordan River Foundation in the UK at Banqueting hall in London, 31 May 2006.

http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/447393-post65.html

Is Prince Kyril the Crown Prince or not..

[purple_platinum]

Originally Posted by Princess Robijn

Is Prince Kyril the Crown Prince or not..

no, he is not a Crown Prince.
Kyril has an elder brother, Crown Prince Kardam who is married to Princess Miriam.
He also has 2 other brothers, Prince Konstantin & Prince Kubrat.

lots of "K" in the family..

[Princess Robijn]

thanks :) :)

[christinacg]

Constantin and Maria at a party in Spain 6-8-06


getty

[fanletizia]

Former Bulgarian Prime Minister and former king Simeon Saxe-Coburg gives a press conference 20 June 2006 in Sofia. Saxe-Coburg denied reports that Italian prince and entrepreneur Pierpaolo Cerani had financed the pre-election campaign of his party, the Simeon II National Movement (SIINM). Saxe-Coburg said the SIINM had received no money for its pre-election campaign from Cerani

from polfoto

[Toledo]

Meanwhile, in Bulgaria Simeon feels the impact of his cousin Prince Victor Emanuel's mess:

DSB Leader: Victor Emmanuel Scandal Demands Political Answer
21 June, 2006
Sofia. We have been dragged into yet another scandal and it demands a political answer. The image of Bulgaria needs to be cleared politically. This is what the leader of the Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria (DSB) Ivan Kostov said in the Parliament lobby today cited by FOCUS News Agency reporter. According to Ivan Kostov Bulgaria’s image must be cleared regardless of what the results of the investigation will show...

UDF Leader: Preservation of Tripartite Coalition Is Placed Before Bulgaria’s Interests

BULGARIA RECEIVES CORRUPTION SCHEME EVIDENCE FROM ITALY
11:15 Wed 21 Jun 2006

Coalition for Bulgaria MP: No One Influenced the Decision-Making in Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Cabinet
21 June, 2006 FOCUS News Agency

[Benjamin]

Bulgaria's Saxe-Coburg Gets Legion d'Honneur

[mknyazev]

I'd appreciate more info on Boris III (and his connections with Hitler) and Giovanna di Savoya (their photos?)
Thanks:

[Joumana]

I heard about princess Kalina. What happend to her?

[Sean.~]

Originally Posted by mknyazev

I'd appreciate more info on Boris III (and his connections with Hitler) and Giovanna di Savoya (their photos?)
Thanks:

A good book on the subject is a "Crown of Thorns".

[magnik]

Some infos here
http://www.bulgaria.com/history/rulers/boris3.html
http://www.geocities.com/hmborisiii/ (few links too)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_III

About Giovanna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanna_of_Bulgaria

Few photos of them here: http://worldroots.com/brigitte/royal...a1894album.htm

[tamta]

Hi,

I'm new, live in England, and am of Bulgarian origin (from the one side of my family).
What I was wondering and would like to know, if anyone can fill me up, is whether Simeon and his family are Orthodox, or not? My impression is that his wife who is Spanish must not have converted, and there's a big chance that his children are catholic as well. (I remember that the marriage of one of his children -I think his daughter's- was catholic, although done in Bulgaria).
If so, I think that, should Simeon and his family have real aspirations to the throne, they should align themselves with the religious practices of the majority of the Bulgarians, and the history of the country,and convert to Eastern orthodoxy (I mean his family, because i think he remains orthodox). Otherwise they will always seem 'foreign' to a part of the Bulgarians.

I don't know much detail about it, and am new here, so the comments of anybody who can enlighten me in this subject are so welcome.

[Victoria1999]

Originally Posted by tamta

Hi,

I'm new, live in England, and am of Bulgarian origin (from the one side of my family).
What I was wondering and would like to know, if anyone can fill me up, is whether Simeon and his family are Orthodox, or not? My impression is that his wife who is Spanish must not have converted, and there's a big chance that his children are catholic as well. (I remember that the marriage of one of his children -I think his daughter's- was catholic, although done in Bulgaria).
If so, I think that, should Simeon and his family have real aspirations to the throne, they should align themselves with the religious practices of the majority of the Bulgarians, and the history of the country,and convert to Eastern orthodoxy (I mean his family, because i think he remains orthodox). Otherwise they will always seem 'foreign' to a part of the Bulgarians.

I don't know much detail about it, and am new here, so the comments of anybody who can enlighten me in this subject are so welcome.

Hi,
I am a Bulgarian who lives in USA. I know that Simeon is Orthodox and maybe his eldest son as well. Everyone else is Catholic.
And yes, the are foreigns even if they convert to Orthodox. They don't have even a drop of Bulgarian blood in their veins. The Bulgarians are hoping that Simeon will leave the country. They don't want him there.

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Victoria1999

Hi,
I am a Bulgarian who lives in USA. I know that Simeon is Orthodox and maybe his eldest son as well. Everyone else is Catholic.
And yes, the are foreigns even if they convert to Orthodox. They don't have even a drop of Bulgarian blood in their veins. The Bulgarians are hoping that Simeon will leave the country. They don't want him there.

Simeon's political opponents want him to leave. Not the whole of the Bulgarian people.

[tamta]

Originally Posted by Victoria1999

Hi,
I am a Bulgarian who lives in USA. I know that Simeon is Orthodox and maybe his eldest son as well. Everyone else is Catholic.
And yes, the are foreigns even if they convert to Orthodox. They don't have even a drop of Bulgarian blood in their veins. The Bulgarians are hoping that Simeon will leave the country. They don't want him there.

I know they don't have a drop of Bulgarian blood, but that is common in many royal houses, where importations of monarchs and cross-family marriages were common practices for centuries. But there are many cases of royals equally foreign by blood, who accomplished to become assimilated to the people and culture of the country they reigned. Culture is equally, if not more important than blood in that respect.
That's why it is really sad that Simeon has allowed that his wife and children, who are hoping -if they are- to reign alongside him some day, are not raised (or, in the case of his wife, converted) to Eastern Orthodoxy. Indeed disgraceful! -imo