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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.

These are relatively private people- neither rich, nor powerful nor high profile “society” types. Like the majority of minor royals, they are the opposite of what today's press prefers to focus on.

Not sure this is true for all others here, but it seems that all the links Eya has posted further above have only a brief lifespan.

Dolète (Roupenide princess), daughter of Rita (a Hethoumide princess). Dolète's father was Stephané of Armenia and her brothers were Roupen III and Levon I. She married Bertrand I (Embriaco) Lord of Gibelet. Their descendant Alice Ibelin was the mother of King Jacques de Lusignan / James of...

The point is most fallen monarchies would not have so swiftly met their demise had there been strong / vocal popular support behind them instead of widespread antipathy / apathy. And remember that far more European monarchies were eliminated / swallowed by other monarchies than by communists...

He had both Roupenide and Hethoumide blood via his Ibelin and Gibelet ancestors. No verifiable connection to the more ancient royalty of the Armenian heartland.

Rather funny assertion since 75% of Europe's monarchies were swept away between 1848 and 1948 -- a good number of the constitutional monarchies being of much briefer duration than 300 years.

No. The relationship is likely another fanciful legend fabricated at a later time to enhance the luster & legitimacy of a relatively new dynasty.

That is true, but I strongly suspect the timing of the defections from the Savoy senior line has more to do with what was happening in a very public way with VE in the 3-4 years leading up to 2007. He was exposed once again as a thoroughly shady character to the extent that even his son...

The Savoys have a claim to Jerusalem, Cyprus and Cilician Armenia through their ancestor Anna de Lusignan, Princess of Cyprus.

Other countries' post-monarchy royal bans were more inclusive/extensive, but unlike VE III and his family, the Duke at the time (Aimone) emerged relatively untainted by the Fascist past, though I would be the last to portray him as an innocent. His efforts to reach out to the enemy in pursuit of...