Ilana Miller's book selling on Amazon!

We are selling Ilana Miller's new book The Four Graces – Queen Victoria's Hessian Granddaughters on Amazon.com. Here is the link!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/097719616X

Our President Visits Their Queen

At a State Dinner this evening President and Mrs Obama were hosted by HM The Queen.

New birth in Casa Savoia – Prince Amedeo

Princess Olga of Savoy-Aosta, Duchess of Puglie, gave birth earlier today to a second son, Prince Amedeo. The birth was reported to have taken place in Paris, where Princess Olga's parents, Prince Michael and Princess Marina of Greece, reside.

Amedeo is the second son of the Duke and Duchess of Puglie. Their first son, Prince Umberto, was born in 2009.

The baby, like his elder brother, happens to be among the most royal of royal babies around these days. He is a descendant of King Christian IX of Denmark, King Louis Philippe of the French, Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, to name but a few of his ancestors. In fact, Amedeo and Umberto's maternal grandfather, Prince Michael of Greece, is a first cousin of his grandson's paternal grandmother (Claude of France) as well as of his son-in-law's paternal grandmother (Princess Irene of Greece). Aimone of Savoy-Aosta and  Olga of Greece are very closely related.

See below:

Aimone of Savoy-Aosta                                        Olga of Greece

Parents:

Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta                                       Michael of Greece
Claude of France                                                    Marina Karella

Grandparents:

Aimone of Savoy-Aosta                                        Christopher of Greece
Irene of Greece                                                       Françoise of France
Henri of France                                       
Isabelle of Orléans-Bragança

Great-grandparents:

Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy-Aosta                     King George I of the Hellenes
Hélène of Orléans                                                   Olga of Russia
King Constantine I of the Hellenes                      Jean, Duke of Guise
Sophie of Prussia                                                    Isabelle of Orléans
Jean, Duke of Guise
Isabelle of Orléans
Pedro de Alcantara of Orléans-Bragança
Elisabeth Dobrzensky de Dobrzenicz

Great-great-grandparents:

King Amedeo I of Spain                                         King Christian IX of Denmark
Vittoria del Pozzo della Cisterna                          Louise of Hesse-Kassel
Louis Philippe, Ct of Paris                                     Konstantin of Russia
Isabel of Orléans y Borbón                                     Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg
King George I of the Hellenes                               Robert, Duke of Chartres
Olga Konstantinovna of Russia                            Françoise of Orléans
Friedrich III, German Kaiser                                 Louis Philippe, Ct of Paris
Victoria of Great Britain                                         Isabel of Orléans y Borbón
Robert, Duke of Chartres
Françoise of Orléans
Louis Philippe, Ct of Paris
Isabel of Orléans y Borbón
Gaston, Count d'Eu
Izabel of Brazil

The Infamous Hat Made Famous by its Auction Price

LONDON — Auction site eBay says a bidder has paid 81,100 pounds ($131,648) for the silk bow hat worn by Princess Beatrice to last month's royal wedding.

The 22-year-old granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II put the Philip Treacy creation on sale to raise money for UNICEF and Children in Crisis.

The silk hat caused a stir at the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/22/princess-beatrice-hat-ebay-sold_n_865310.html

The Honeymoon's Over

NAIROBI, Kenya — Britain's newly married Prince William and his wife, the former Kate Middleton, have left the island nation of the Seychelles after a 10-day honeymoon, officials said Saturday.

"They left happy and clearly content with their stay," said the head of the Seychelles tourism board, Alain St Ange, who saw the couple leave Friday.

William's office at St. James's Palace confirmed the couple had returned to Britain.
The palace said the couple "thoroughly enjoyed their time together, and they are grateful to the Seychelles government for their assistance in making the honeymoon such a memorable and special 10 days."

The island nation's foreign minister said the nation was proud to host the couple.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/21/prince-william-kate-honeymoon-seychelles_n_865068.html

The Queen's State Visit to Ireland

Although she stopped short of an outright apology for the “heartache, turbulence and loss” of the past century, the Queen said: “We can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.”

The landmark speech during a state dinner at Dublin Castle included a direct reference to the murder of the Duke of Edinburgh’s uncle, Earl Mountbatten, by the IRA, when the Queen said the “events have touched us all, many of us personally”.

But her overriding message was one of “forbearance and conciliation” as she spoke of being able “to bow to the past, but not be bound by it”.

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/8522273/The-Queen-acknowledges-sad-and-regrettable-mistakes-of-Britains-troubled-relationship-with-Ireland.html

Those Rocking, Jammin' German Royals

This was like a Royal Command Performance in reverse; instead of commoners performing for royals, royals performed for commoners in a charity jazz concert.

The event took place in the splendour of Munich’s Prince Regent Theatre, formerly an opera house, which opened in August 1901 with a performance of The Mastersingers of Nuremberg by Richard Wagner.

Charly and the Jivemates sounds like some forgotten band of the Sixties, but in fact, Charly is also His Highness Karl Friedrich, prince of Hohenzollern, 58, head of the princely house of Hohenzollern and great-grandson of the last King of Saxony. He is not just head of the family’s extensive agricultural and forestry business, but a most accomplished lead singer, guitarist and saxophonist. He was accompanied by Paul Müller on the double bass, Peter Schmidt on drums, Norbert Rettenmeier on the saxophone, and pianist Frieder Berlin, all commoners, alas, but none the less accomplished musicians.

 Fürst Karl Friedrich of Hohenzollern

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/8502838/Highnesses-and-high-notes-at-a-German-jazz-concert-with-a-difference.html

Ilana Miller signs copies of her book

Ilana Miller, at Eurohistory, busily signing copies of her new book, THE FOUR GRACES – Queen Victoria's Hessian Granddaughters!

 Ilana Miller holding the first copy of her new book!

 Ilana Miller and our son Derrick having a signing marathon!

Al-Fayed Last Blast – Financing the latest conspiracy theory on Diana's death

Personally, I am not a conspiracy theorist. In fact, I find these an attempt against my intelligence. Whether you, my dear reader, believe these nonsensical claims, of course, is your right. However, I simply do not believe that the RF is monstrous enough to sponsor, conspire or organize with "the establishment", whatever that is, to take out Diana Princess of Wales.

Mohammed Al-Fayed has spent the last decade and a half vilifying the RF and "the establishment", spending along the way a King's ransom on his own sad quest to prove that he shares culpability, and even responsibility, for the inept events that led to the tragic death of the former Princess of Wales.

Believe what you want...enough said!


From The HuffingtonPost...

CANNES, France -- According to a provocative new documentary at the Cannes Film Festival, Britain's royals are racist "gangsters in tiaras" and Prince Philip is a womanizing psychopath.

The movie "Unlawful Killing" revives claims that Princess Diana – adored by millions as the "people's princess" but viewed in royal circles as an embarrassing loose cannon – was murdered by the British establishment. The film was screened Friday for the first time at the festival.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/16/cannes-diana-film-slams-u_n_862286.html

The infamous hat worn by Princess Beatrice fetching a King's Ransom!

Princess Beatrice of York decided to sell for charity that strange contraption she wore at her cousin William's wedding.

The Ebay auction is up to nearly $29,000 as of tonight!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Princess-Beatrice-Royal-Wedding-Hat-Philip-Treacy-/230620500557?pt=Women_s_Accessories_UK&hash=item35b20d924d