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10-24-2022, 10:24 AM
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Greetings from Prince Joshua von Lobkowicz
Greetings everyone.
I am Prince Joshua von Lobkowicz and I am happy to make your acquaintance. My wife and I first discovered this site many years ago when there was a post announcing our upcoming wedding. How anyone knew about it is beyond me.
As I was contacting some distant relatives, this site came up again in a google search and I thought it might be interesting to join.
A little about me. I am 40 years old, married, and presently working as a publishing consultant for established and aspiring board game publishers. I like to travel, study language, write, read, and enjoy all things food and drink related.
Despite my love of food, I embarrassingly do not have a terribly refined palate. Honestly, I am as just as happy eating street food in a southeast Asian hutong as I am with a white truffle risotto overlooking the Adriatic.
I look forward to getting to connect with some people here.
Best Regards.
Prince Joshua von Lobkowicz
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10-24-2022, 08:23 PM
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10-25-2022, 05:41 AM
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Originally Posted by CyrilVladisla
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Bonjour!
A never ending amount really. Frankly, following the history of my own family is a life's work in itself. The kind I'd love to write about some day.
Nice to meet you!
Best Regards,
Prince Joshua
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10-25-2022, 06:13 AM
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Welcome, Joshua! I hope you will enjoy your time hier at this forum!
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10-25-2022, 06:16 AM
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Nice to meet you, Joshua!
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10-25-2022, 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by principessa
Welcome, Joshua! I hope you will enjoy your time hier at this forum!
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Thank you. I am looking forward to making some new connections.
Best Regards,
Prince Joshua
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10-25-2022, 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Biri
Nice to meet you, Joshua!
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Nice to meet you Biri!
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10-25-2022, 08:20 AM
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Welcome to TRF Prince Joshua von Lobkowicz!
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10-25-2022, 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Blog Real
Welcome to TRF Prince Joshua von Lobkowicz!
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Thank you for the welcome. I am very pleased to be here.
Best Regards,
Prince Joshua
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10-25-2022, 09:02 AM
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Hello, Joshua. Welcome to the oldest great-grandchild of Ambassador Prince Maximilian (1888-1967) and Gillian Sommerville (1890-1982), who settled in the US. - So glad you've joined up! 
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10-25-2022, 01:07 PM
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Frankly, following the history of my own family is a life's work in itself. The kind I'd love to write about some day.
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Joshua, if you are learning Czech as part of your exploration of Lobkowicz family history, there is a nicely illustrated book that I picked up in Praha called Lobkowiczové: dejiny a genealogie rodu, where I just noted (if the info in there is correct) that we have the same November 26 birthday- LOL!
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10-25-2022, 03:31 PM
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Hello, Joshua. Welcome to the oldest great-grandchild of Ambassador Prince Maximilian (1888-1967) and Gillian Sommerville (1890-1982), who settled in the US. - So glad you've joined up! |
Thank you for the kind welcome. I see you know a bit of my family history. Sadly, I never knew either of them though Gillian and I did share a brief time on this planet together.
Kind Regards,
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10-25-2022, 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Addapalla
Joshua, if you are learning Czech as part of your exploration of Lobkowicz family history, there is a nicely illustrated book that I picked up in Praha called Lobkowiczové: dejiny a genealogie rodu, where I just noted (if the info in there is correct) that we have the same November 26 birthday- LOL!
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What a happy coincidence. And you are right. We have a most excellent birthday.
I have a copy of that book in my collection as well. Sadly, I do not yet speak the language. Czech teachers are few and far between in the US. Someday, I will learn to speak it - poorly. Which is how, I speak each of the languages I have put a bit of time into.
I do like to travel, and I always try to treat the strangers I meet with respect. That is best done in the language of those you visit. To this end, I speak a very basic amount of French, Spanish, Italian, Albanian, and Mandarin. When I visit Prague, my extended family who live there render my attempts at Czech quite moot I'm afraid.
Kind Regards,
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10-25-2022, 04:38 PM
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Nice to meet you!
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10-25-2022, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Prince Joshua
Greetings everyone.
I am Prince Joshua von Lobkowicz and I am happy to make your acquaintance. My wife and I first discovered this site many years ago when there was a post announcing our upcoming wedding. How anyone knew about it is beyond me.
As I was contacting some distant relatives, this site came up again in a google search and I thought it might be interesting to join.
A little about me. I am 40 years old, married, and presently working as a publishing consultant for established and aspiring board game publishers. I like to travel, study language, write, read, and enjoy all things food and drink related.
Despite my love of food, I embarrassingly do not have a terribly refined palate. Honestly, I am as just as happy eating street food in a southeast Asian hutong as I am with a white truffle risotto overlooking the Adriatic.
, Im checking it out
I look forward to getting to connect with some people here.
Best Regards.
Prince Joshua von Lobkowicz
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Welcome back to the Royal Forums!
I assume you are referring to the Travel Buddy Games? Best wishes on your work I'm checking it out in Instagram and looks interesting. Hope we see you post about your thoughts on the long history of the Lobkowicz family.
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10-25-2022, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by doro
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Thank you. Nice to meet you too!
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10-25-2022, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Toledo
Welcome back to the Royal Forums!
I assume you are referring to the Travel Buddy Games? Best wishes on your work I'm checking it out in Instagram and looks interesting. Hope we see you post about your thoughts on the long history of the Lobkowicz family.
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Actually, Travel Buddy Games is only a small independent side project. Primarily my publishing consulting services are provided to Grey Fox Games. I also consult with other publishers and designers on a per project basis.
As for my thoughts on my family's long history, I will be happy to provide them some time. Frankly, they are incomplete. My thoughts. Not my family.
I'm certain it would be quite interesting for me to share some stories from my family that have only been passed down to me orally. I suspect some of the more studious of you here may know details that even I lack.
Best Regards,
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10-25-2022, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Prince Joshua
Actually, Travel Buddy Games is only a small independent side project. Primarily my publishing consulting services are provided to Grey Fox Games. I also consult with other publishers and designers on a per project basis.
As for my thoughts on my family's long history, I will be happy to provide them some time. Frankly, they are incomplete. My thoughts. Not my family.
I'm certain it would be quite interesting for me to share some stories from my family that have only been passed down to me orally. I suspect some of the more studious of you here may know details that even I lack.
Best Regards,
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Then I think you are more than ready to start drafting all the anecdotes and family memories into a self-published digital book. For us history nerds the best stories are not the Wikipedia entries but the memories of those that make the historical characters come alive, like everyday persons, in extraordinary events.
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10-26-2022, 11:14 AM
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Joshua, here is a fun fact that makes you somewhat of a genealogical oddity, and not only among princes:
Of Ambassador Prince Maximilian's three sons, your grandfather Oliver was youngest.
Of the Ambassador's six Lobkowicz grandsons, your father Mark was youngest.
However, of the Ambassador's seven Lobkowicz great-grandsons, you totally reverse the pattern, being the oldest of them. A relatively rare genealogical phenomenon in large families.
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10-26-2022, 12:33 PM
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Joshua, While you are exploring family history, “Dancing and dying for Napoléon” is an article featuring your tragic and beautiful great-great-great-great-great-grandmother Princess Pauline d'Arenberg, wife of Prince Joseph zu Schwarzenberg.
Article abstract:
https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/node/1293
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