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Thursday, April 21, 2011
An Ester Message from Crown Prince Alexander
The great day of the Resurrection of Our Lord is upon us. The great day, that enlightened the world with joy and gave purpose to our existence. The day above all days and the feast above all feasts. I am joined by my wife Crown Princess Katherine, sons Hereditary Prince Peter, Prince Philip and Prince Alexander in wishing that this Holy Day remind us that we are all God’s children and that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ is a call to find within ourselves what is good, for our sake and for the sake of general salvation.
We pray to the Lord to give us strength and wisdom to overcome all pain and trouble. We pray that we will work together for the benefit of Serbia and everyone in our country for present and future generations. We pray that during these days, when the global economic crisis and various natural and human-inflicted disasters are threatening countries and nations all over the world, we pray for peace, recovery and progress.
We pray to the Resurrected Lord to bless us and save and protect our compatriots in Kosovo and Metohija, and everywhere in the world where there is suffering, pain, injustice and violence.
Let Easter resurrect in us the noblest virtues that will make us endure as nation and as people. These are qualities of love for our neighbours, justice for every wrong, peace for the troubled, strength for the weak, help for the poor and needy, and unity to enable us to live and work together.
The resurrection of Jesus offers us a message of hope, love, and grace. Once again my wife and sons join me in extending our warmest wishes, and we do so in the very same spirit of Easter.
Christ is Risen!
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
April 21, 1926 – A Queen Was Born...Happy Birthday Ma'am
Her Majesty The Queen turns 85...may she have many more years in store serving Her People!
Obituary: The Maharaja of Jaipur
Given the nickname "Bubbles" by his British nanny because of the gallons of champagne consumed at his birth, Bhawani Singh became 39th head of Kachwaha clan of Rajputs and Maharaja of Jaipur following the death of his father, Sawai Man "Jai" Singh II, at a polo match in Cirencester in 1970. The following year the princes' privy purses, and other privileges they had been guaranteed when they surrendered their powers at Independence, were abolished by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi through a constitutional amendment.
In 1958 Jai Singh had become the first of the princes in Rajasthan to turn his principal residence, the Rambagh Palace, into a luxury hotel. The palace was eventually leased in 1972 to the Indian hospitality company the Taj Group. Subsequently several more of the family's palaces also became five-star hotels. In consequence Sawai Bhawani Singh, who counted Bill Clinton and Mick Jagger among his friends, became one of the richest of India's maharajas.
Later on his son-in-law, Narendra Singh, reclaimed management control over some of the family properties, including the City Palace, and the Maharaja became a titular host for special events such as corporate-incentive nights. He was unconcerned when some of his peers turned up their noses at such commercialism: "I find an answer in our ability to make our heritage relevant to the changing times," he explained, dismissing his critics as mostly ageing contemporaries who "can't bring themselves to see reality and are still in the age of the 18th century. They are maharajas, and I am a businessman."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/8459319/Brigadier-Sawai-Bhawani-Singh.html
In 1958 Jai Singh had become the first of the princes in Rajasthan to turn his principal residence, the Rambagh Palace, into a luxury hotel. The palace was eventually leased in 1972 to the Indian hospitality company the Taj Group. Subsequently several more of the family's palaces also became five-star hotels. In consequence Sawai Bhawani Singh, who counted Bill Clinton and Mick Jagger among his friends, became one of the richest of India's maharajas.
Later on his son-in-law, Narendra Singh, reclaimed management control over some of the family properties, including the City Palace, and the Maharaja became a titular host for special events such as corporate-incentive nights. He was unconcerned when some of his peers turned up their noses at such commercialism: "I find an answer in our ability to make our heritage relevant to the changing times," he explained, dismissing his critics as mostly ageing contemporaries who "can't bring themselves to see reality and are still in the age of the 18th century. They are maharajas, and I am a businessman."
Continue reading...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/8459319/Brigadier-Sawai-Bhawani-Singh.html
Photos from the Funeral of Princess Teresa of Orleans-Bragança
Family and friend gathered in Estoril to bid adieu to a much-loved princess whose ashes will be brought to Brazil, land of her ancestors.
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The Prince of Wales Becomes Longest-Serving Heir Apparent
Prince Charles becomes longest-serving heir apparent
Prince Charles has been next in line to the throne for more than 59 years
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Royal succession reform discussed
Prince Charles has become the longest-serving heir apparent in British history.
The previous record, of 59 years, two months and 13 days, was set by his great-great-grandfather, King Edward VII, Clarence House said.
The Prince of Wales became heir apparent at the age of three when his mother, Princess Elizabeth, acceded to the throne on 6 February 1952.
Charles, now 62, was nine when he was given the title the Prince of Wales.
Edward VII was born the heir apparent on 9 November 1841 as his mother, Queen Victoria, was already on the throne.
He took over as King when she died on 22 January 1901.
The heir apparent, currently the eldest son of a sovereign (unless the monarch's children are all female), is the next in line to the throne and their right to succeed cannot be altered by the birth of another.
However, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg recently said the government would consider changing the laws on royal succession to remove the right of male heirs to succeed before older female siblings.
He said both he and Prime Minister David Cameron were "sympathetic" to changing rules which seemed "a little old fashioned."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13133587
Prince Charles has been next in line to the throne for more than 59 years
Continue reading the main story
Related Stories
Royal succession reform discussed
Prince Charles has become the longest-serving heir apparent in British history.
The previous record, of 59 years, two months and 13 days, was set by his great-great-grandfather, King Edward VII, Clarence House said.
The Prince of Wales became heir apparent at the age of three when his mother, Princess Elizabeth, acceded to the throne on 6 February 1952.
Charles, now 62, was nine when he was given the title the Prince of Wales.
Edward VII was born the heir apparent on 9 November 1841 as his mother, Queen Victoria, was already on the throne.
He took over as King when she died on 22 January 1901.
The heir apparent, currently the eldest son of a sovereign (unless the monarch's children are all female), is the next in line to the throne and their right to succeed cannot be altered by the birth of another.
However, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg recently said the government would consider changing the laws on royal succession to remove the right of male heirs to succeed before older female siblings.
He said both he and Prime Minister David Cameron were "sympathetic" to changing rules which seemed "a little old fashioned."
Continue reading...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13133587
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
+ Maharaja of Jaipur (1931-2011)
Jaipur: The last titular Maharaja of Jaipur Brigadier Sawai Bhawani Singh died at a private hospital in Gurgaon after prolonged illness.
The Jaipur royal died late on Saturday night due to multi-organ failure, family sources said in Jaipur. He was 80.
Singh, the head of the Kachwaha clan of Rajputs, was admitted to hospital on March 29. His funeral will take place at 'Gaitore Ki Chatriya' in Jaipur on Monday, the sources said.
Born to Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II and his first wife Marudhar Kanwar of Jodhpur, Sawai Bhawani Sing was married to Princess Padmini Devi in 1966.
The royal couple have one daughter Princess Diya Kumari.
Singh also served in the Indian Army and received numerous honours including a promotion to the Presidential Bodyguard.
He was awarded India's second-highest gallantry award, the Mahavir Chakra, for leading troops inside Pakistani territory in Sindh region and attacking and destroying many Pakistani posts during the Indo-Pak war of 1971.
He was also promoted to the rank of Brigadier in 1974.
Singh, also a polo player, ascended the throne of Jaipur in 1970 following the death of his father and remained the official Maharaja of Jaipur until the abolition of royal entitlements by the government.
He also contested Lok Sabha elections in 1989 from Jaipur on Congress ticket but was
defeated by rival party BJP's Girdhari Lal Bhargav.
Bhawani Singh was the 40th Maharaja of Jaipur and the 11th ruler as per the tradition of Amber.
He adopted Padmanabh - the son of his daughter Diya Kumari and son-in-law Narendra Singh - who will now be ascended to the throne as per the tradition of the royal family, the family sources said.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/maharaja-of-jaipur-bhawani-singh-passes-away/149436-3.html
In This Fairy Tale, Not One, but Two Queens in Waiting
By JOHN F. BURNS
LONDON — When 1,900 invited guests take their coveted places in Westminster Abbey next week for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, one of the most uneasy seats in the 13th-century Gothic church may be the one occupied by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the longtime lover of Prince Charles, and since her marriage to the heir to the throne in 2005, the stepmother to William, Charles’s older son.
One of the most compelling themes of the April 29 wedding will be Britain’s odd-couple pair of “queens-in-waiting,” Ms. Middleton and Camilla. Though more than 30 years apart in age, both have come to their marriages as what are known in Britain as commoners, and stand, on their husbands’ ascent to the throne — Camilla first, and later Kate — to take their places as the highest-placed women in the land.
There, mostly, the similarities end.
Kate, glamorous and young — 29, five months older than Prince William — is seen by many in Britain, along with her future husband, as the potential savior of a monarchy whose luster has been deeply tarnished in the past 30 years.
For all the public acclaim for Queen Elizabeth II, who turns 85 this week and celebrates her 60th anniversary as monarch next year, the story of the other members of the royal family has been one of serial divorces, personal indiscretions, extravagance at taxpayers’ expense and suspicious financial dealings that have made lurid copy for Britain’s tabloid press.
Camilla, once cast by the tabloids as the most hated woman in the country for her role in dooming Prince Charles’s marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales, has gone some distance toward redeeming herself in recent years, to judge by polls that show sharply reduced levels of personal antipathy toward her.
She has been embraced by Diana’s two sons, William and Harry, who have said publicly that they love her, not least for the happiness she had brought their father.
The sense of her having achieved insider status in the family, at least with the younger generation, was enhanced when she was photographed this year emerging from a tête-à-tête lunch with Kate in a London restaurant, where she was overheard amid peals of laughter urging the bride-to-be to follow royal tradition — and Diana’s precedent — by wearing a jeweled tiara at the wedding, something Ms. Middleton apparently thought was too fusty for her taste.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/world/europe/19wedding.html?_r=1&src=ISMR_HP_LI_LST_FB
LONDON — When 1,900 invited guests take their coveted places in Westminster Abbey next week for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, one of the most uneasy seats in the 13th-century Gothic church may be the one occupied by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the longtime lover of Prince Charles, and since her marriage to the heir to the throne in 2005, the stepmother to William, Charles’s older son.
One of the most compelling themes of the April 29 wedding will be Britain’s odd-couple pair of “queens-in-waiting,” Ms. Middleton and Camilla. Though more than 30 years apart in age, both have come to their marriages as what are known in Britain as commoners, and stand, on their husbands’ ascent to the throne — Camilla first, and later Kate — to take their places as the highest-placed women in the land.
There, mostly, the similarities end.
Kate, glamorous and young — 29, five months older than Prince William — is seen by many in Britain, along with her future husband, as the potential savior of a monarchy whose luster has been deeply tarnished in the past 30 years.
For all the public acclaim for Queen Elizabeth II, who turns 85 this week and celebrates her 60th anniversary as monarch next year, the story of the other members of the royal family has been one of serial divorces, personal indiscretions, extravagance at taxpayers’ expense and suspicious financial dealings that have made lurid copy for Britain’s tabloid press.
Camilla, once cast by the tabloids as the most hated woman in the country for her role in dooming Prince Charles’s marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales, has gone some distance toward redeeming herself in recent years, to judge by polls that show sharply reduced levels of personal antipathy toward her.
She has been embraced by Diana’s two sons, William and Harry, who have said publicly that they love her, not least for the happiness she had brought their father.
The sense of her having achieved insider status in the family, at least with the younger generation, was enhanced when she was photographed this year emerging from a tête-à-tête lunch with Kate in a London restaurant, where she was overheard amid peals of laughter urging the bride-to-be to follow royal tradition — and Diana’s precedent — by wearing a jeweled tiara at the wedding, something Ms. Middleton apparently thought was too fusty for her taste.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/world/europe/19wedding.html?_r=1&src=ISMR_HP_LI_LST_FB
Monday, April 18, 2011
+HRH Princess Teresa d'Orléans-Bragança (1919-2011)
The last remaining survivor among the grandchildren of the Princess Imperial of Brazil, Izabel, and her husband Gaston, Count 'Eu, passed away today (18 April 2011) at Estoril.
Princess Teresa d'Orléans-Bragança (1919-2011) happened to be the aunt of many important European royals, among them: the Count of Paris, the Duchess of Württemberg, the Duchess of Calabria, the Duke of Bragança, and the Duchess of Segorbe (former wife of Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia).
She remained unmarried after her father's unexpected death in 1940, becoming, as was the old tradition, her mother's companion. Prior to her father's death, Teresa was in love with her cousin Prince don Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, older brother of her future sister-in-law Esperanza, wife of Teresa's own older brother Pedro Gastão. However, Prince don Carlos died in the Spanish civil war, much to Teresa's distraught.
A loyal companion to her mother, Teresa was nearby when the Princess Elisabeth died in 1951. Six years later Teresa finally settled down married Dom Ernesto Martorell y Calderó (1921-1985), a wealthy Portuguese businessman of Spanish extraction. By her husband, Teresa had two daughters.
Her siblings included, as mentioned before: Prince dom Pedro Gastão, who married Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (aunt of King Juan Carlos of Spain); donha Isabelle, who married the late Henri, Count of Paris; donha Francisca, who married the late dom Duarte Nuno, Duke of Bragança; and Prince dom Joao, an intrepid airline pilot who married into the Egyptian royal family.
Princess Teresa d'Orléans-Bragança (1919-2011) happened to be the aunt of many important European royals, among them: the Count of Paris, the Duchess of Württemberg, the Duchess of Calabria, the Duke of Bragança, and the Duchess of Segorbe (former wife of Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia).
She remained unmarried after her father's unexpected death in 1940, becoming, as was the old tradition, her mother's companion. Prior to her father's death, Teresa was in love with her cousin Prince don Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, older brother of her future sister-in-law Esperanza, wife of Teresa's own older brother Pedro Gastão. However, Prince don Carlos died in the Spanish civil war, much to Teresa's distraught.
A loyal companion to her mother, Teresa was nearby when the Princess Elisabeth died in 1951. Six years later Teresa finally settled down married Dom Ernesto Martorell y Calderó (1921-1985), a wealthy Portuguese businessman of Spanish extraction. By her husband, Teresa had two daughters.
Her siblings included, as mentioned before: Prince dom Pedro Gastão, who married Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (aunt of King Juan Carlos of Spain); donha Isabelle, who married the late Henri, Count of Paris; donha Francisca, who married the late dom Duarte Nuno, Duke of Bragança; and Prince dom Joao, an intrepid airline pilot who married into the Egyptian royal family.
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