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Has anyone much observed the behavior of people raised in wealthy and powerful families? It seems crazy and far-fetched, but this is what out-of-touch, privileged, well-connected people frequently do: when they get a bug up their backside, they go over people’s heads- right to the top. I...

Yes indeed, Hallo. Since we are not sharks, better for all to pass on each and every online ”feeding-frenzy.” These frenzies provide potent evidence that many people’s attitudes and emotions (about the Sussexes or anyone) can be easily stoked and manipulated to a level that is unhealthy.

...good example of acribing unknowable motives and framing “actions” as one presents their preferred narrative. What laws or commandments can any stranger prove the Sussexes have actually broken to such a degree as to warrant so much condemnation from legions of utter strangers? Finding ways to...

True enough, but what turns fact-based opinions into starry-eyed fandom or virulent hatred is the constant media rubbish that frames and “contextualizes” what public persons have done, said or written. From what I have observed, people don’t seem to hate the Sussexes based solely on what H & M...

In 2024, “the court of public opinion” judges public figures such as Harry & Meghan based on the relentless diet of rubbish pumped out by corporate media for the sake of generating clicks and advertising revenue. Portrayals of celebrities-- whether positive or negative-- are intentionally...

Yes, but I only kept some newer material on Juana, some of the Felipes and Carlos II while I let go of every older work now accessible via The Internet Archive.

The book covers the early years of Prince Philip when he was a relative cypher and the least senior agnate of a royal family more often in exile than in power during his youth spent mostly elsewhere. Whatever one thinks of the book overall, using Greek-language texts, it is a unique source of...

Agree totally with Lucien. A thoughtful reading of this book greatly softened my harsh opinion of Queen Frederike most of all. At the same time it bolstered my long-held impression that, thanks to the dysfunctional Greek political class and Greece’s blatantly self-serving “allies,” the Greek...

In 2016, I had just over 3,000 royalty-related books in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. So far I have given away about 1,600.

Antonio has a large number of descendants in Switzerland and beyond. One of these descendants was Juliane-Cathérine d’Amond, Madame de Martines, Dame de Sergy (1659-1713), who competed (unsuccessfully) with several others hoping to claim to the Principality of Neuchâtel in 1707.

Due to the popular and polarizing practice of doubling-down, what are the chances of this book's premature critics being capable of expressing an objective thought when it is published? Current trends suggest they will go cherry-picking for the items that bolster their preconceived opinions and...

Common patrilineal ancestor: Prince Ferdinand August (1655-1715). Joshua is a tenth generation descendant of Prince Ferdinand August through an older son, while Anna is a ninth-generation descendant through a younger son.

Interesting to see the [...] ramping up before anyone has a clue about the book's content. Being indignant about a crime that has not yet been committed is as irrational as announcing the jury's verdict before the trial starts.

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

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...

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!

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! :czechflag:

Royals who appeared in the commercial are indeed poster-children for the concept of useless, over-privileged empty vessels.

Because the Grand Duchy of Hesse, unlike Electoral Hesse, included lands that were actually “by the Rhine,” running along both of its banks. The family did not pretend to be princes OF the Rhine, as it had always been a commercial waterway shared by many states.

My point was it is a deliberately concocted controversy, like so much insubstantial media and social media click-bait. There is so much legitimate world news to get fired-up about - Lilibet-gate is 100% stoked-up fluff for the benefit of the media.

They are fighting back against a sensationalist media which feeds on people for its own ends, exactly as Diana and Caroline of Monaco did when they had enough of the media's intrusive, excessive and unrelenting coverage. This no doubt has a lot to do with Harry's indignation and disgust with...

The Cambridges know from the parents that their niece is to be known as Lili. Was it equally "telling" that the RF wasted little time in rebranding her father as Prince Harry? There is so much fodder for discussion of Sussexes & Cambridges, but the attempts here and elsewhere to concoct a...

Since I pulled it out in order to answer the above question, I must say the nicest thing about this work is that King Pavlos is unquestionably the author's focus -- and not his Queen whose beauty, magnetism and forceful personality inevitably overshadowed Pavlos (and everyone else in the room)...

Here is the precise text in the back pages where I incorrectly misread as “a half-hour.” ... “The publication you hold in your hands is accompanied by the Special Edition of the documentary film, with the addition of 30 minutes of visual content. This is a limited edition that includes new...

Petra, did you order the book new or used? I actually received the Pavlos: No Ordinary King “Special edition DVD” (a 30-minute documentary) affixed to the last page of the book. Unfortunately the material is under copyright, so reproducing it is problematic.