Luxembourg Grand Ducal Family, Current Events 3: February - October 2006


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Heiress Victoria said:
Sorry.. what affairs? what's the bomber scandal?

We discussed it at the end of last year in "News and Pictures of the GD family" Part 4 if I'm not mistaken.

Today the story is the big headline of the newspaper Luxemburger Wort and below I translate there internet article:

Prince Jean wasn't the bomber

The public attorney's office Luxembourg sees proved the innocence of Prince Jean in the affair "Bommeleeër" (bomber in English). The brother of the present Grand Duke Henri had subjected himself voluntarily a DNA-test, the authority announced on Wednesday. This test had no agreement with the traces found at the crime scene.

Among the deeds of the presumed bombers fall a dozen of explosive material attacks in the years 1984 to 1986 on Luxembourg's territory . Persons haven't been injured at the same time. A witness found by RTL Lëtzebuerg had burdened Prince Jean. He had stated in a conversation with prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker, that he had seen the car of the prince at the day of the attack on the airport Findel directly at the crime scene.

However Prince Jean was able to refute the suspicion. On the investigations of the district attorney's office, he indicated that he had been on the relevant time guest in a hunt in the French Département Loir et Cher - about 500 kilometers away from the crime scene . According to district attorney's office, letters and photos belay the presence of the noblemen at the organization. At the anonymous RTL-witness, contradictions had appeared moreover in the details about times and weather conditions - which isn't amazing after 20 years. The search for the bombers goes therefore further. The district attorney's office had confirmed lately that the limitation time period isn't yet expired for the deeds.

Source in German:
http://www.wort.lu

PS: These rumors appeared in pubs soon after the several attacks from the years 1985-1986. These people thought that the involvement of a member of the Grand Ducal family was the only explanation that the saddest affair in the history of Luxembourg hasn't been cleared up yet.

The real criminals haven't been found after 20 years and 18 attacks between 1985 and 1986. The sloppiness is an embarrassment for the whole Grand Duchy!
 
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Wow, that is the first I have heard about any of that. I think it's surprising that the investigation was so sloppy and that the real criminals have yet to be found...:confused: It's good that Jean was cleared though. Those sounds like some terrible rumors to be going around about you.
 
Just want to add to this sad story that I'm quite sure that these bad rumours were the reason why Prince Jean renounced at his rights, the divorcement was only a pretext. He moved to Paris where he is still living actually and was hardly seen in Luxembourg during the last years.

Prince Jean's advocate emphasized that his client has been deeply injured and disappointed by the reproaches. Luxembourg's most famous lawyer Gaston Vogel (who is acknowleged as a person who says the things point blank) critized Luxembourg's public attorney's office of proceeding very unfortunate; "this is more a burden than an approval".

The witness which burdened the prince (by saying that he saw him in a car near the crime scene on the day of the attack of 20th November 1985) explained his statement in an interview: " I didn't say that the man I saw in the car was the bomber (contradiction to what he announced a few weeks ago! ) but that I recognized a man of the public life, Prince Jean and I mentionned the name in the discussion with the prime minister..."

He didn't answered to the facts that there are pictures and texts which belay that Prince Jean has been a guest on a hunt that day and I really doubt that he really now Prince Jean's face so well that he couldn't confuse him with someone else. There isn't even a proof that the man in the car (which wasn't Prince Jean!) has something to do with the crimes! By the way it is really strange that the so called witness didn't mention Prince Jean's name at the police office in 1985 and now all of a sudden after the RTL report he remembered that the man he saw in the car on that day could have been Prince Jean. Either this man just wants attention or he wants to cause damage to the Grand Ducal family! :mad:
 
It has taken this long? Has anyone over there heard of innocent till proven guilty? I wonder if he had been someone else if the same thing would have happened. Would the witness even have mentioned it.
 
Henri I, Luxemburg's Grand Duke (L) and his son Crown Prince Guillaume stand to attention during a welcoming ceremony in Wiesbaden 17 March 2006. Henri and Guillaume are on a two-day visit to Wiesbaden

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I think that Guillaume looks with beard older, but very good. Are there more new images?
 
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He's starting to look like Nicholas II of Russia. :)

Thanks for the pic
 
I really like Guillaume on this pic, so don't shave!
 
alelysafina said:
He's starting to look like Nicholas II of Russia. :)

Thanks for the pic

Yes! I agree. Although I don't think they are related.:D I don't know why he let his beard grow like that. He looks mature but I would like him to shave it. My taste I suppose.;)
 
But what about the visit? Are the GD royal couple there?
What does the article say?
 
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Cre that if, it is the Great Duke Henri, and their son the prince heir Guillaume, but not you if also this the Great Duquesa María Teresa.
 
He's so handsome either way that I don't care! :D He's 24 though, right? The beard makes him look a lot older IMO so maybe he should shave it off :rolleyes: .
 
Are there any other fans of the beard out there, or is it just me? I LOVE the beard on him, and he looks very handsome in that picture.
 
I'm so glad that Guillaume hasn't dropped off the face of the earth - I was beginning to worry! :D As a fierce opponent of the beard, I am surprised that I think he looks quite attractive in that photo....it looks better now that it is more full in the chin area. He doesn't look quite as sleazy as before (in my opinion that is.)

I forgot to mention this earlier - he does look like Nicholas II in that photo! I love it! And the more I look at the picture, the better I think he looks. As long as the beard is full, I am all for it.
 
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more about the visit to Wiesbaden

http://www.main-rheiner.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=2310225

http://www.main-rheiner.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=2309373

http://www.hr-online.de/website/rubriken/nachrichten/index.jsp?rubrik=15662&key=standard_document_20050356

"WIESBADEN Vier Besuchsstationen haben Großherzog Henri von Luxemburg und Erbgroßherzog Guillaume gestern absolviert: Staatskanzlei, Rathaus, Biebricher Schloss und Casino-Gesellschaft. Großherzogin Maria Teresa hatte aus familiären Gründen absagen müssen."

MT wasn't there, because of "family affairs"
 
Tina said:
more about the visit to Wiesbaden

http://www.main-rheiner.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=2310225
http://www.main-rheiner.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=2309373
http://www.hr-online.de/website/rubriken/nachrichten/index.jsp?rubrik=15662&key=standard_document_20050356

"WIESBADEN Vier Besuchsstationen haben Großherzog Henri von Luxemburg und Erbgroßherzog Guillaume gestern absolviert: Staatskanzlei, Rathaus, Biebricher Schloss und Casino-Gesellschaft. Großherzogin Maria Teresa hatte aus familiären Gründen absagen müssen."
MT wasn't there, because of "family affairs"

thanks for the links, Tina..
here are the photos from main-rheiner.de :

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Grand Duke Henri and Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume are in Hesse on the occasion of the 200th year celebrations of the Duchy Nassau.

The have inaugurated the "200 Jahre Herzogtum Nassau" (200 years of Duchy Nasau) exhibtion from the casino society of Wiesbaden yesterday. The exhibition is showing the creation period of Duchy Nassau 200 years ago under Napoleon, the history of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution up to the origin of the early Nassau Wiesbaden and itinfluence in the "Rheingau" (translation?). The relationship of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg with Hesse are basing on the common history of Nassau. When Grand Duke Wilhelm III (or Guillaume III ;) )died on 23th November 1890 -as Oranian also the king of the Netherlands- the crown was going to Duke Adolphe of Nassau following article 3 of the Luxembourgian constitution.
Today there is a visit in the hunting lodge Platte planed. The site manager will give further details about the restauration of the building which has been destroyed during World War II. The sight-seeing will be followed by laying down of flowers on the tomb of the first wife of Grand Duke Adolphe - in the Russian-orthodox church.
In the evening there will be another great exhibition in Budapest with the presence of the Hungarian president lazlo Solyom and over 100 honour guests dedicated to Sigismund of Luxembourg. The same exhibition will be opened for public in the national history - and culture museum in Luxembourg. There will be more details in the Monday edition of the "Luxemburger Wort".

Let's add that Grand Duchess Maria Teresa isn't accompanying her husband and her son due to familar reasons (I guess the birth of Louis' son;) ).

There are 2 pics of the visit in my newspaper but unfortunately my scanner is broken and therefore I had to take them from the e-paper in a rather bad quality. :(

Source: article from Luxemburger Wort
 

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more of Henri & Guillaume in Wiesbaden, Germany (from DPA)
 

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thanks for the pics purple platinum

Guillaume is looking odd with the beard!
 
he does look better with his facial hair since it filled itself out.
 
The first time I saw Guillaume with a beard about a year or two years ago, it reminded me of CP Haakon of Norway. In the latter's case, he looked much better with a beard. I think with Guillaume, it's just a matter of getting used to.
 
yeah, my eyes have needed time to adjust it.
 
It does sort of remind me of Haakon. I think that Guillaume looks good in the beard, as long as it is a full beard and not that weird pencil-thin beard that he had a while ago. With his full beard I think he looks older, and to me he looks more like Nikolas of Greece.
 
I think the reason it's hard to get used to is because one month we'll see him clean cut and shaven. And then there will be a gap of time before the next pic and all of a sudden there's a good amount of facial hair.
 
Ditebaby said:
I think the reason it's hard to get used to is because one month we'll see him clean cut and shaven. And then there will be a gap of time before the next pic and all of a sudden there's a good amount of facial hair.
I just picked up an old magazine, and it had that picture where H poses with his sons. Guillaume looks totally different in it, unrecognisable from his look now - thinner, leaner, younger, less hair... MT too has changed, but then again, change is her middle name. It's interesting that H has always, always looked exactly the same. A little more wrinkled now than 30 years ago, but still, the same. Why :confused:

-L
 
His style really hasn't changed, thats why. MT got highlights. Guillaume got weight and a beard. Jean is sorta like that too.
 
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