Deaths Announcements 2019

[JR76]

Originally Posted by HereditaryPrincess

Claus von Bulow, an Anglo-Danish aristocrat, passed away at his London residence at the age of 92:

Décès de Claus von Bulow – Noblesse & Royautés

I'm surprised that N&R mentioned the passing of Mr von Bülow since he changed into his maternal grandfather's surname after his father had been accused of collaboration with the Germans during World War II meaning that he was neither a noble nor a member of the Bülow family.

[Biri]

Prince Wolfgang of Hohenlohe-Oehringen died in Florence on 27 May.

He was born in Berlin on 22 February 1925 as the only child of Prince Waldemar of Hohenlohe-Oehringen (1890-1965) & his wife Nina Chischina (1898-1965).
When he was 11 years old, his parents divorced; his mother remarried in 1948 paternal first cousin of her former husband, Prince Kraft of Hohenlohe-Oehringen (1892-1965); car crash took both their lives; Nina died on the spot on 27 August, her husband died from wounds in hospital six days later.
Wolfgang married in Teheran on 15 May 1959 Jacqueline Sophia Tonge (b. 4 May 1933) [daughter of Lieutenant-Commander Cecil Graham Tonge & his wife Waynoni Rayward]by whom he had a daughter Margarita (b.1961) since 1992 married to Stuart Bentham (b.1948)and a son Heinrich (b.1968) since 2002 married to Kristin Charlotte Schmidt (b.1971) and four grandchildren: by Margarita two granddaughters Alexandra (b.1994) & Larissa (b.2002) and by Heinrich two grandsons Theodor (b.2002) & Nikolaus (b.2005).

Sources: https://sites.google.com/site/myroya...al-information
Hohenlohe
Person Page
Almanach de Gotha Facebook Page

[Marengo]

Princess Woizlawa Feodora Reuss, née Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, died on June 3rd in Strittmatt, Germany. The princess was 100 years old.

http://eurohistoryjournal.blogspot.c...-us-adieu.html

[HereditaryPrincess]

Princess Henriette de Auesperg (b. 1933) passed away recently. She was the daughter of Prince Alois de Auesperg and his wife Countess Henriette Larsich von Moennich. In 1969 she married Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach, who passed away after a battle with cancer in 1986.

Source: Décès de la princesse Henriette de Auesperg (1933-2019) – Noblesse & Royautés

[Biri]

And she left six children, thirteen grandchildren and three great-grandsons:

Descendants of King Willem I of the Netherlands

Countess Priscilla of Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenhems, née Countess of Schönborn-Wiesentheid died in June.

She was born in Munich on 5 February 1934 as the eldest of four children of Count Clemens of Schönborn-Wiesentheid (1905-1944) & his wife Dorothea, nee Countess of Pappenheim (1908-1991).
Sje married in Pommersfelden on 21 June 1956 Count Franz-Josef of Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems (b.1927) [ypungest of four children of Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1892-1930) {herself eldest child of Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (1868-1924) & her husband Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria (1866-1939)} & her husband Count Georg of Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems (1878-1955)] by whom she had seven children: Maria Rosario (b.1957), Carolina (b.1958), Elisabeth (1960-1966), Franz-Clemens (b.1962), Stephan (b.1963), Philippa (b.1968) & Maximilian Kaspar (b.1976), as well as fifteen grandchildren and two great-grandsons.

Sources: Descendants of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
SCH?NBORN
Waldburg
https://sites.google.com/site/myroya...al-information

[Duc_et_Pair]

On June 3rd 2019 has passed away at the age of 100: Woizlawa-Feodora Elise Marie Elisabeth Prinzessin Reuß, Herzogin zu Mecklenburg (1918-2019).

Woizlawa was the last still living participant at the Royal Wedding of Princess Juliana of the Netherlands and Bernhard Prinz zur Lippe-Biesterfeld in 1937. The Princess was a full cousin to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands:


GENERATION 2
Woizlawa-Feodora Elise Marie Elisabeth Herzogin zu Mecklenburg (1918-2019)
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GENERATION 1
Adolf Friedrich Albrecht Heinrich Herzog zu Mecklenburg
x Victoria Feodora Agnes Leopoldine Elisabeth Prinzessin Reuß
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GENERATION 0
Friedrich Franz II Großherzog von Mecklenburg
x Marie Karoline Auguste Prinzessin von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
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GENERATION 1
Heinrich Wladimir Albrecht Ernst Herzog zu Mecklenburg
x Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria Koningin der Nederlanden, Prinses van Oranje-Nassau
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GENERATION 2
Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina Koningin der Nederlanden, Prinses van Oranje-Nassau, Hertogin van Mecklenburg (1909-2004)


With the passing-away of Woizlawa, the House of Mecklenburg, branch Schwerin, is on the verge of extinction with two females still living:

Donata von Solodkoff, Herzogin zu Mecklenburg (1956)
Edwina von Posern, Herzogin zu Mecklenburg (1960)

Donata and Edwina are daughters of Christian-Ludwig Ernst August Maximilian Johann Albrecht Adolf Friedrich Herzog zu Mecklenburg and of Barbara Irene Adelheid Viktoria Prinzessin von Preußen.

https://www.suedkurier.de/region/hoc...72594,10172895[/B]

[Biri]

Countess Béatrice de Looz-Corswarem died on 2 June.

She was born in Uccle on 30 October 1931 as the youngest of three children and only daughter of Count Robert de Looz-Corswarem (1883-1950) & his wife Rosa Hubertine, nee du Bois d’Enghien (1897-1981).
She was reportedly unmarried and childless, left three nephews, one niece and their families.Sources: https://sites.google.com/site/myroya...al-information
Looz u.Corswarem

[Ceely]

Princess Elisabeth Poniatowski died on February 4.

She was born in 1923 to Prince Casimir Poniatowski and Countess Anne de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay. She had one older brother and two younger sisters. In 1946, she married Theodor Kiendl (1922-2012). She is survived by her four children Theodore, Gregory, Paul, and Elizabeth and their families.

Source: Poniatowski
https://geneall.net/en/name/82485/el...s-poniatowski/

[Biri]

Clemente [dei marchesi] Ferrero de Gubernatis Ventimiglia died prematurely this year.

He was born in 1967 as second child of Edoardo [dei marchesi] Ferrero de Gubernatis Ventimiglia (1936-2012) & his first wife Giovanna Turi; he had an older sister Ilaria [b.1965; now Mrs. André Vercueil, mother of Jasmine Clélia (b.2002) & André Philippe (b.2003)].
He married in 1994 Giovanna Morganti by whom he had three children: Edoardo (b.1997), Viola (b.1999) & Giovanni (b.2002).
He also had two half-brothers Ferrante (b.1975) & Matteo (b.1978) by his father's second marriage to Elisabeth Brandt.

Source: Descendants of Giovanni Agnelli and Clara Boselli

[Biri]

Ferdinand Prince of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein died on 30 June.

He was born on 6 March 1942 in Bartenstein as third child and only son of Karl, Prince of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein & his wife Clara, née Baroness von Meyern-Hohenberg. He married in Oettingen civilly on 8 January and religiously on 19 January 1971 Princess Franziska of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg (1947-2011) [oldest of five children of Alois, Prince ofOettingen-Oettingen u.Oettingen-Spielberg (1920-1975) & his wife Elisabeth, nee Countess of Lynar (1922-2005)] by whom he had five children Maximilian (b.1972, current Prince of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein), Felix (b.1973), Alice (b.1978), Margherita (b.1979) and Georgina (b.1982).
Apart from his children he left eight grandchildren.

Sources: https://sites.google.com/site/myroya...019-royal-news
https://sites.google.com/site/myroya...al-information
Descendants of Duke Carlo III of Parma
Hohenlohe

[Biri]

Princess Stephanie of Windisch-Graetz, formerly Mrs. Dermot Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell, died sometime this year.

She was born in Brussels on 17 January 1939 as first of two children of Prince Franz Joseph of Windisch-Graetz (1904-1981) & his wife Countess Ghislaine d'Arschot Schoonhoven (1912-1997); she had one brother Guillaume (b.1950).
She married in Londonon 16 February 1967 Dermot Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell (1935-2009); but they dovorced already in 1973.
They had two sons Henry (b.1967) & Alexander (b.1969) who became Alexander Windisch-Graetz in 2011.
Apart form her brother and two sons she left five grandchildren: Eléonore (b.2002) & Bryan (b.2005) [children of Henry & his wife Lisa, nee Abadjian (b.1966)] as well as Elisabeth-Marie (b.2005), Otto (b.2007) & Hermine (b.2011) [children of Alexander & his wife Ann Charlotte, nee Le Sellier de Chezelles (b.1970)]

Sources: Descendants of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha...ischgratz.html

[Biri]

Update: Princess Stephanie of Windisch-Graetz died on 12 July at St. Pierre Hospital in Brussels, due to complications after heart surgery:

http://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogs...ch-graetz.html

Baron Eric de Bertouch-Lehn died this year.

He was born in 1956 as a son of Baron Poul Christian de Bertouch-Lehn & his wife Eva Jeanne Pade: he had two brothers Nicolas and Paul.
In 1986 married Countess Camilla Holstein (1959-2010) [fifth of seven daughters of Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxemburg (b.1925) & her husband Knud, Count Holstein (1919-2001)]; the same year their first son, Nicolas, was born and three years later - the second one Philip; they divorced in 1996.
Apparently he didn't remarry.
He left two sons, a granddaughter Isabelle (b.2016) and a grandson (b.2018, name unknown) [children of Nicolas & his wife Eva Maria, nee Marcher (b.1988)]

Sources: Descendants of Duke Wilhelm of Nassau
https://finnholbek.dk/getperson.php?...=I69220&tree=2
https://gw.geneanet.org/fholbek?lang...=bertouch+lehn

[Biri]

Sister Isabelle, Countess de Lannoy, paternal aunt of Hereditary Grand Duchess Stephanie of Luxembourg, died in Brussels on 15 July.

She was born in Etterbeek on 16 May 1930, as sixth of seven children and youngest daughter of Count Paul de Lannoy (1898-1980) & his wife Beatrice, nee Princess de Ligne (1898-1982).
She is the penultimate of the siblings who passes away; her only siling sibling is Count Claude (b.1932); the youngest one; apart from his she leaves numerous nephews and nieces with their families.
I don't know when she entered the convent and to which religious order she belonged.

Sources: http://www.carnetmondain.be/
Lannoy
https://sites.google.com/site/myroya...al-information

[An Ard Ri]

I believe Soeur Isabelle de Lannoy was a Carmelite nun

Décès de la comtesse Isabelle de Lannoy (1930-2019) – Noblesse & Royautés

[Benjamin]

Fürst Ferdinand von Bismarck (1930-2019) has recently passed away at the age of eighty-eight.

Death of the Head of the Princely House of Bismarck

[Moonmaiden23]

Originally Posted by An Ard Ri

I believe Soeur Isabelle de Lannoy was a Carmelite nun

Décès de la comtesse Isabelle de Lannoy (1930-2019) – Noblesse & Royautés

I didn't know that HGD Stephanie had an aunt who was a Carmelite..fascinating. Soeur Isabelle passes away 8 months after her brother Count Philippe, Stephanie's father.

[Duc_et_Pair]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

Fürst Ferdinand von Bismarck (1930-2019) has recently passed away at the age of eighty-eight.

Death of the Head of the Princely House of Bismarck

It made the Dutch news because Ferdinand Fürst von Bismarck was a youth friend of Claus von Amsberg. He became a witness on his friend's wedding to Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands. Their eldest son is named to him: prins Willem-Alexander Claus Georg Ferdinand der Nederlanden, prins van Oranje-Nassau, jonkheer van Amsberg. And last but not least he was one of Willem-Alexander's godparents.

See https://www.vorsten.nl/2019/07/25/fe...ing-overleden/

[Benjamin]

Duke Georg Friedrich of Hohenberg died this month.

The duke's passing was announced by his youngest son.

Georg Friedrich (1929-2019) was a grandson of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Duchess Sophie of Hohenberg via their eldest son Maximilian.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand's Grandson, Georg Friedrich of Hohenberg, Has Passed Away

[MAfan]

H.S.H. Princess Ilona von und zu Liechtenstein, née Countess Esterházy de Galántha, died on 02 August 2019, aged 98.

She was the widow of Prince Constantin von und zu Liechtenstein (1911-2001).

https://www.vaterland.li/liechtenste...;art171,395228

[Countessmeout]

Originally Posted by MAfan

H.S.H. Princess Ilona von und zu Liechtenstein, née Countess Esterházy de Galántha, died on 02 August 2019, aged 98.

She was the widow of Prince Constantin von und zu Liechtenstein (1911-2001).

https://www.vaterland.li/liechtenste...;art171,395228

Sad news, few of that generation still remain.

Her late husband was a first cousin of Franz Joseph II, Hans Adam's father.

It was a second marriage for both. Ilona and Constantin both lost their first spouse during WWII. Constantin's wife and mother of his only child Princess Monica died in an air raid in Vienna in 1944 when their daughter was 2. Ilona's first husband died in active duty in Romania the same year, after only a year of marriage.

They had no kids together due to age. He was 66 and she 56 when wed.