Americans Who Married Royals and Aristocrats

[Danjel]

Of course we all know Princess Grace, the american filmstar who bacame royal by marriage, but there are more.....

 

[Danjel]

For example, especially for Julia (LOL)
the TEXAN woman Aleene McFairland who married HSH Prince Johann von und zu Liechtenstein in 1931

 

[Danjel]

and the american moviestar Virgina Field who married HSH Prince Constantin von und zu Liechtenstein in 1936

 

[Danjel]

Elizabeth Reid Rogers, who married Prince Philipp of Hesse

 

[Julia]

Originally posted by Danjel@Dec 30th, 2003 - 6:23 pm
For example, especially for Julia (LOL)
the TEXAN woman Aleene McFairland who married HSH Prince Johann von und zu Liechtenstein in 1931

Very cute, Danjel. We Texans get around, no??

 

[Danjel]

Elizabeth Reid Rogers, daughter of a gouvernor of Kentucky, did not become a princess of Hesse, but Freifrau von Barchfeld. When she in 1947 regained her american nationality, she officially was called Elizabeth, Princess Hesse

After her death the Prince married Mrs. Ann Field, the widow of manufacturer of canns of meat from Sydney.(see attach)

 

[Julia]

Though she is/was British (her grandfather was American ) actress Dawn Adams married Prince Vittorio Massimo.

 

[USCtrojan]

Angela Brown married HSH Prince Maximillian of Liechteinstein in 1999 they have a son Alfons.

Wallis Simpson married Edward VIII later Duke of Windsor.

Hope Cook married the King of Sikkim in 1963.

Princess (grand duchess) Xiena of Russia, daughter of Grand Duke George of Russia married a U.S. Army Luteient in 1905.

 

[USCtrojan]

Grand Duchess Xiena of Russia on her wedding day!

 

[USCtrojan]

Infumas Wallis Warfield Simpson 1937?

with

King Edward VIII (by then Duke of Windsor) in Paris.

 

[USCtrojan]

American Hope Cook was only 21 when she married the 60 sum odd King of Sikkim in 1963. They had three sons and eventually divorced. She and her boys live in NYC.

 

[USCtrojan]

I know that Angela is from Panama, but, I thought that she held american citizen ship! HMMMM one to look into!

 

[USCtrojan]

Whoops I almost forgot about HRH Princess Pavlos of Greece (Marie Chantal
Miller) who married the deposed Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece on July 1, 1995.

Her younger sister Alexandra married HSH Prince Alexandre von Furstenburg (son of HSH Prince Egon von Furstenberg and Diane von Furstenburg) in Oct 1995, they have two children and are now divorced....

Diane (dont know her maiden name) married Prince Egon von Furstenburg

 

[USCtrojan]

American Joan Douglas married HRH Prince Charles of Luxembourg. They had two children.

1stly Princess Charlotte of Luxembourg

2ndly Prince Robert of Luxembourg who married american June Houston in 1994. Mu guess is that this marriage was not ok'd at all by Grand Duke Jean being that their children were born with the titles Count and Countess of Luembourg.

They have two children:

Countess Charlotte of Nassau
Count Alexandr of Nassau

Does anyone know about this union?

 

[Julia]

And of course (almost, if not as, well-known as Grace Kelly) Marie-Chantal Miller. Daughter of the "king of Duty Free" Robert Miller.

Here is HRH Princess Pavlos of Greece.

 

[Julia]

, Chanel mentioned M-C above! Sorry!

 

[Perillos]

Lest we forget, America's own Royal House, the Kamehamehas of Hawaii:

http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Hawaii/hawaiimn.htm

 

[USCtrojan]

Wasn't there a Cambodian Princess who married an american not too long ago? Late 2002 or in 2003? Anyone know? I don't remember either of their names.


Chanel

p.s. I know we were talking about reigning royals, but, I thought that it would be ok to throw in the non-reigning royals as well, or americans who have married those with titles. I had no idea that Alexandre's fahter married Diane without consent and that they were a Junior branch. Thank You for the info.

 

[Sean.~]

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[Danjel]

Originally posted by chanel@Dec 31st, 2003 - 2:58 am
American Hope Cook was only 21 when she married the 60 sum odd King of Sikkim in 1963. They had three sons and eventually divorced. She and her boys live in NYC.

antoher pic of them

 

[Danjel]

and antoher one with their youngest son

 

[Hélène]

Originally posted by Perillos@Dec 31st, 2003 - 3:22 pm
Lest we forget, America's own Royal House, the Kamehamehas of Hawaii:

http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Hawaii/hawaiimn.htm

That is soo cool. I had no idea Hawaii had it's own Royal House...

 

[SpiffyBallerina]

Yeah, Hawaii had royals and then we kinda kicked them out or something. Whoopsies! I really have no idea what happened there; all I know is that they no longer rule.
Hey, we're all forgetting Lisa Halaby(sp?)! She was born and raised in the USA and she then became Queen Noor of Jordan.

 

[moosey60]

Pekina Nordom's wedding to that Marc guy was aired on TLC's "A Wedding Story". I saw it a while back. It was quite interesting...but I never expected royalty to air their weddings on national television...oh well...

Yea, Sean...I live in Canada so it'll be no problem. It was on TLC last summer or something...Maybe it'll be reaired some day. It was really interesting because they had their wedding in Cambodia and they showed all the cool traditions they had. They went to see the King to thank them and kneel before them...then they had a traditional Buddhist wedding in the palace. It was one of the best episodes of "A Wedding STory" because it was so unique. All the others were so bland...but this one was really special.


This was in an American magazine or newspaper...

Pekina Norodom and Marc Coumeri
By Lois Smith Brady

Marc Coumeri, 26, a quiet mathematician who likes techno music, met
Princess Pekina Norodom of Cambodia, 31, nearly two years ago at 4 a.m.
under the big disco ball at Twilo, a Manhattan dance club. Mr. Coumeri
and Noel Thomas, his old math buddy from from Johns Hopkins University,
were walking through the crowd on the dance floor. When they bumped into
the princess, who prefers to be called Miss Norodom, and her friend
Divina Kwok, Mr. Thomas took Miss Kwok's arm and danced with her.
Stranded together, Miss Norodom and Mr. Coumeri began dancing, too.

Miss Norodom recalled thinking that Mr. Coumeri looked like Clark Kent
and danced like a kangaroo. "He just hops all over the dance floor,"
said the princess, who said nothing about her royal lineage that night.

Mr. Coumeri and Miss Norodom danced for hours, past breakfast until
noon, when the club closed. "It was pouring rain," Mr. Thomas
remembered, "and we all decided to go for dim sum in Chinatown. It was
really cute - Pekina and Marc had just met, and now they were walking
around Chinatown under one umbrella, squeezed tight."

Miss Norodom is a granddaughter of King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia,
who was forced into exile by a coup in 1970 that opened the door to the
Khmer Rouge. "The Khmer Rouge were killing all the educated people,"
Miss Norodom said. "You speak more than one language, you're gone."

Her family settled in Beijing, then still known as Peking, where she was
born on July 7, 1970. (Seven is her lucky number.) Her name, Pekina,
means Peking girl. When she was 10, her family moved to Connecticut.
Today, she is more East Coast than Far East, working as a product
manager at Timex, wearing black all the time, playing the saxophone and
going skiing and snowboarding.

King Sihanouk returned to Phnom Penh in 1993, and her parents, Yin Kim
and Yuvaneath Norodom, rejoined him at the palace, with its ornate
pavilions and staff of astrologers, gardeners and bodyguards.

"When I go visit," Miss Norodom said, "I have maids. People kneel at me
and address me as princess. I feel like saying, `No need to kneel down.'
I'm honored to be a princess, but I don't feel like one."

About 24 hours after she and Mr. Coumeri shared dim sum in New York,
Miss Norodom called him and asked him out on a utilitarian first date -
to the Ikea furniture store near Newark International Airport. As they
wandered through the store, testing couches and pouring imaginary coffee
for each other in the mock kitchens, "I thought, `I can picture myself
dating this guy,' " she said.

Weeks later, she told him on the phone that she was the granddaughter of
the king of Cambodia. "She asked if I recognized her last name,"
recalled Mr. Coumeri, who works at American Express in New York, using
mathematical models to judge the creditworthiness of potential card
holders. "I said, `No, should I?' "

He called his parents, Linda and John Coumeri, in Jackson, N.J., to tell
them he was dating a princess. "My mother's first reaction was like,
`Marc, don't you meet anyone normal?' " he said.

The couple were married in a Buddhist ceremony at Phnom Penh's royal
palace on May 30. Chanting monks in cantaloupe-color robes dipped roses
in scented water, which they shook over the couple as a blessing.
Afterward, a long procession of musicians in knickers escorted the
couple and their guests across the grounds to the throne hall, where the
king and queen waited to receive them.

"It was awesome," Benay Borow, the bridegroom's aunt, said. "How many
palaces have I been to? Not many. The Helmsley Palace is about it."

Mulling over the statistical chances of meeting a total stranger in a
club one night and then flying across the planet to marry her in a royal
wedding less than two years later, Mr. Thomas, the best man, said, "It
was an example of mathematical beauty."

 

[Dennism]

What a nice story. I'll have to look for that episode on TLC!

 

[Sg1fan]

Isn't one of the Hilton heirs (not Nicky and the other one I can't stand to see barely dressed appropriately) , but the older heir, a cousin of some royal? I thought one of Gabor sistors married and divorced some prince but I may be wrong....

One website I read said that it's Zsa Zsa Gabor (she has a daughter by Conrad Hilton) and that she was once the "Princess of Anhalt, Duchess of Saxony" another said her husband never really had that title. Can anyone shed light on that one.

 

[Sean.~]

Originally posted by Naut2bGrimaldi@Jan 4th, 2004 - 1:54 am
One website I read said that it's Zsa Zsa Gabor (she has a daughter by Conrad Hilton) and that she was once the "Princess of Anhalt, Duchess of Saxony" another said her husband never really had that title.  Can anyone shed light on that one.

Yes, I can. In Germany, since 1918, titles per se have been illegal. Members of the former royal, ducal, princely, and countly houses are, however, permitted to use their titles as their last name. So, for example, The Duke of Wurttemberg is Carl Herzog von Wurtemberg. His wife is technically Diane Herzog von Wurttemberg, but since that sounds silly, the state just basically turns a blind eye to the feminization of the name and she is therefore Diane Herzogin von Wurrtemberg.

With respect to Zsa Zsa, her husband Frederick bought his title. That is, he was adopted as an adult by a Sax-Anhalt Princess in exchange for money. As a result of his adoption he gained the last name Furst von Saxe Anhalt. So he isn't really a Prince and Zsa Zsa most certainly is not a Princess. The German titles were not transmitted through adoption (particularly in the female line).

The Sax-Anhalt line is, in reality, extinct.

Sean. ~

 

[Danjel]

Chanel,
You were talking about Princess Joan of Luxembourg, yeah I know of that union, in fact I've got a picture of her

 

[Danjel]

This is her daughter, Princess Charlotte,

I've got a pic of her son too...............somewhere!!! ;-)

 

[Emma-Janette]

Queen Noor (Lisa Halaby).
She's American and married King Hussein of Jordan.