Princely House de Ligne - Page 2

**iceflower** · #21 05-23-2009, 04:21 AM

Prince Edouard de Ligne and Isabella Orsini attend the Paul Allen
Hosts VIP Party in honor of Dr. Jim Watson at the Octupus Boat
during the 62nd International Cannes Film Festival on May 22,
2009 in Cannes, France.

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maria-olivia · #22 05-23-2009, 06:58 AM

Marengo,
Why do you mix the belgian branch (de Ligne) and the French one (de Ligne la Tremoille??

**Marengo** · #23 05-23-2009, 08:42 AM

Do you mean why the French branch is not posted seperately in the French forum? Because the family is originally Belgian and the French branch is very small (and young). So to give them their own thread in the French forum won't be all that practical.

Alberto2244 · #24 05-23-2009, 10:07 AM

I posted at French speaking forum Royauté the news of the wedding Ligne-Orsini (and I wrote to Paul Theroff) last october.
The bride gave an interview about the wedding saying it would take place in June 2009. But it was 7 months ago...apparently they changed their plans.
Links to the interviews (in Italian)
She´s very modest...she says her wedding is "only a chapter of her extremely beautiful life":
Il Tempo - Spettacoli - Isabella Orsini: Â«Divento principessaÂ»

Tgcom - Isabella sposa un vero principe

**MAfan** · #25 06-03-2009, 10:04 AM

HH Prince Michel de Ligne has been recognized by the Spanish Government as Grandee of Spain on 28 April 2009.

http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2009/05/2...-2009-8356.pdf

maria-olivia · #26 06-03-2009, 03:52 PM

So she may enter in a church with his horse ... that was centuries ago..
he of course..

**MAfan** · #27 06-03-2009, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by maria-olivia

So she may enter in a church with his horse ... that was centuries ago..

I didn't know this fact...is it a right of the Grandees of Spain?

maria-olivia · #28 06-03-2009, 04:37 PM

Yes , and they also don't have to put off their hat when the King is present.
dixit Luis Jose Vilallonga whose family were Grandees of Spain since...centuries

sgl · #29 06-03-2009, 04:39 PM

I read this, and was also wondering what privileges this entailed. I highly doubt that he would exercise his right to enter a church with his horse; however, there must be some other interesting privileges that come with the Grandee designation.

**MAfan** · #30 06-03-2009, 04:40 PM

For example?

maria-olivia · #31 06-03-2009, 04:42 PM

Yes, and also they don't have to put off their hat when the King of Spain is present.
Dixit the late José Luis Vilallonga, whose family were Grandees of Spain since centuries.

Moonmaiden23 · #32 06-15-2009, 02:25 PM

My God...I have just read that Prince Pedro Luiz d'Orleans-Branganca aged 26 was among the 228 lost in the Air France crash a couple of weeks ago!

He was the cousin, as well as best friend and confidant, of Alex de Ligne.
They are on the cover of Point de Vue this week...she is so pretty and he was so handsome and kind looking.

Very sad and shocking!

claypoint2 · #33 06-22-2009, 01:19 AM

Yes, it is both shocking and deeply sad. In case that you haven't come across it already, there is a thread devoted specifically to the death of Prince Pedro Luiz:

Prince Pedro Luíz (1983-2009) Brazilian heir killed in Air France plane crash

**iceflower** · #34 09-02-2009, 06:12 PM

Today, September 2nd, Prince Edouard de Ligne and
Isabella Orsini celebrated their civil wedding in Antoing,
Belgium:

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sgl · #35 09-02-2009, 07:26 PM

Here's an article and some more photos from the civil wedding:
Mariage civil du prince Edouard de Ligne Ã* Antoing | Noblesse & RoyautÃ©s

The bride is very lovely.

EmpressRouge · #36 09-02-2009, 08:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iceflower

Today, September 2nd, Prince Edouard de Ligne and
Isabella Orsini celebrated their civil wedding in Antoing,
Belgium:

** Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 **

Is she from THE noble Italian Orsini family or is it just a coincidence?

Marchesina · #37 09-02-2009, 08:56 PM

She's Italian, she recently played the main character in a fiction in Italy (actually was berlusconi's tv...) called "il sangue e la rosa - the blood and the rose". From her surname you can image she's noble, but I don't know.

**iceflower** · #38 09-03-2009, 03:35 AM

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Originally Posted by EmpressRouge

Is she from THE noble Italian Orsini family or is it just a coincidence?

I've tried to find out more but I couldn't find any hint,
maybe Orsini also is a very common name in Italy.

She has her own page isabellaorsini.com, but no
real information about her background.

Here's a large gallery with pics from yesterday from belga.

Marchesina · #39 09-03-2009, 04:36 AM

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Originally Posted by iceflower

I've tried to find out more but I couldn't find any hint,
maybe Orsini also is a very common name in Italy.

She has her own page isabellaorsini.com, but no
real information about her background.

Here's a large gallery with pics from yesterday from belga.

It's not a very common name in Italy at all. It immediately reminds to something noble, probably she's noble, perharps an offshoot of the family. Anyway it's certanly an important family, 'cause Silvio Berlusconi is her godfather

amedea · #40 09-03-2009, 06:10 AM

she is NOT noble, there are NO links between her and the famous Orsini family. That's why in all the announcements in which the groom is called "prince" there's no mention of her title.
The links with Silvio Berlusconi confirm that. The Italian prime minister has never hanged around with aristocracy (the two only dinners he attended with roman aristocracy in the last 10 years are reported by the press as exceptional events).
And at the birth of Isabella, in the eighties I think, he wasn't still in politics and he was everywhere considered a newcomer: no aristocratic house of the time would have asked him to become the godfather of their daughter.