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Familia regala, istoria regalitatii, King Carol I, King Michael of Romania, Pelesh Castle, Romanian Royal Family, Royal Palaces, Rumania
I would like to present you an article of mine published recently in Revista de Museologia #52, Madrid, about Pelesh Royal Castle in the Transylvanian Alps, built by King Carol I.
08 Sunday Jan 2012
Fresco from the private chapel in Pelesh castle. The chapel was a recollection place much loved by Queen Elisabeta of Romania (Carmen Sylva). Photo by Diana Mandache.
13 Monday Sep 2010
King Michael of Romania with Vladimir Grand Duke of Russia at Fabron Castle in Nice, a property which belonged to Marie Alexandrovna. The snapshot was taken in 1924.
21 Saturday Aug 2010
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Balkans, European royal families, Familia regala, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King Ferdinand, Queen Marie of Romania, Regele Ferdinand, Romanian Royal Family, Royal Palace, Scroviste Royal Palace, South-East European Monarchs
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The Scroviste Royal Palace located about 20 km north of Bucharest among lakes and forests, has been one of the favourite summer and week end retreats of King Ferdinand of Romania. Before the palace was built, there was just a hunting lodge used by Ferdinand, and from that basis new buildings and amenities were added in the subsequent decades. Today the palace is still used by the presidency of Romania although it was much modified during the communist time in a quite unkind manner. The images above show sketches for a palace section in Scroviste designed by Arthur Lorentz in the 1930s. DM
19 Thursday Aug 2010
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07 Monday Jun 2010
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Familia regala, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, istoria regalitatii, King Ferdinand, Queen Marie of Romania, Regele Ferdinand, Regina Maria, Romanian Royal Family, Royal Palaces
Neo-Romanian style boathouse, within the grounds of the Scroviste Royal Palace, north of Bucharest. 1920s photograph
This is the only Neo-Romanian style boat housewhich I am aware of. The photograph dates from the mid 1920s, showing it during construction, in the finishing stages. The main Neo-Romanian diagnostic elements are the roof finials and the wooden poles and arches similar to those embellishing peasant house verandas in the villages of southern Romania. The structure was built on the shore of the lake Snagov, north of Bucharest, within the grounds of the Scroviste Royal Palace gardens, for sheltering small private boats belonging to members of the Romanian Royal Family. The gardens were designed by the landscape architect Friedrich Rebhun (famous in late c19th and early c20th Romania for designing the Cismigiu public gardens in Bucharest or the Pelesh Royal Castle park in Sinaia and many other commissions). I very much like the reflection of the boathouse on the placid surface of lake Snagov, thus greatly enhancing its gracious lines. I believe that the construction has vanished many decades ago, probably during the years after the communist regime took over the palace and radically “modernised” it according to the uncouth tastes of the then presidential couple, Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu. The palace is still in use nowadays by the Romanian presidency and the Ceausescu era design alterations are still very much appreciated by the actual nouveau riche political elite of Romania. Article authored by ©Valentin Mandache, original source: http://historo.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/neo-romanian-style-boathouse/
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24 Monday May 2010
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Diana Mandache, European royal families, Familia regala, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, istoria regalitatii, King Carol I, King Ferdinand, Queen Marie of Romania, Regele Ferdinand, Regina Maria, Romanian Royal Family, Royal Palaces
This is a drawing dating from 1893 and is an interior design proposal for Princess Marie’s boudoir at the time when the French architect Paul Gottereau started the works for the rebuilding of Cotroceni palace. The edifice was the official residence of Ferdinand & Marie. This design proposal was sent for the approval of Princess Marie. Unfortunately in the contemporary Cotroceni palace not all of the old decorations or furniture seen in the drawing above are still in place, due to the vicisitudes endured by this building over the ensuing decades, events that ranged from natural to human catastrophes such as earthquakes or the communist takeover in 1947. DM
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I endeavor in the “Weekly Pictures” post series to bring to light worthy of note, often less known images from the royal past and present and thus further enhance the understanding of royal history and what it represents for us.
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21 Friday May 2010
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Cotroceni Royal Palace, Diana Mandache, European royal families, Familia regala, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, istoria regalitatii, King Carol I, Palatul Regal Cotroceni, Regele Carol I, Romanian Royal Family, Royal Palaces
King Carol I at his desk, Cotroceni Palace (1870s), painting by Carol Popp de Szathmary (Diana Mandache's Weblog: Royal History)
King Carol I of Romania at his desk in the old Palace at Cotroceni (Bucharest), 1870s.
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26 Monday Apr 2010
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European royal families, Familia regala, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, istoria regalitatii, King Carol II, Noblesse et Royautés, Regele Carol II, Romanian Royal Family
The Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family & Carol of Romania, July 1921, Sigmaringen (Weekly Picture: Diana Mandache's weblog Royal History)
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I endeavor in the “Weekly Pictures” post series to bring to light worthy of note, often less known images from the royal past and present and thus further enhance the understanding of royal history and what it represents for us.
Weekly picture: ©Diana Mandache’s weblog Royal History
03 Wednesday Mar 2010
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Familia regala, Historic Houses, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, istoria regalitatii, Noblesse et Royautés, Romanian Royal Family
The majestic entrance assembly of the Neo-Romanian style villa, built in the 1920s, that once belonged to Prince Nicholas (1903 - 1978), a prominent member of the Romanian Royal Family, composed from a superlative monumental doorway, completed by a small, but exquisite wrought iron gateway. Cotroceni area, Bucharest. Photo©Valentin Mandache
This post has initially been published by Valentin Mandache on his blog Historic Houses of Romania.
31 Sunday Jan 2010
Posted in Romanian Royal Family, Historic Residences
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Balkans, Castele si palate regale, Eastern Europe, Familia regala, istoria regalitatii, King Ferdinand, Noblesse et Royautés, Queen Marie of Romania, Regele Ferdinand, Regina Maria, Romanian Royal Family, Royal Palaces, Scroviste Palace
Mock country house, Scroviste royal retreat complex, located on lake Snagov shore, North of Bucharest (RNA. Diana & Valentin Mandache)
The image above shows one of the guest houses from within the grounds of Scroviste royal palace, on the shore of Snagov lake. It is a design combining peasant farmhouse and Neo-Romanian architecture within a peculiar Arts and Crafts matrix (see my earlier post on Romanian Arts and Crafts architecture for details). The house has a ground floor pergola made from wooden poles carved with ethnographic motifs. Similar type carved poles adorn the extended first floor veranda. The palace gardens were landscaped by Fr. Rebhun, a talented and prolific Austrian landscape architect, very active in Romania in those decades, with many completed royal and public park commissions (Royal Pelesh Castle gardens, Cismigiu Park in central Bucharest, etc.) . What I like in this instance in terms of landscape architecture is the pergola with climbing roses, the house nestled between two imposing trees and the peasant stone stone cross at the base of the right hand tree, which together with the wonderful architecture of the house and its special location on the shore of a prairie lake constitute a metaphor of the Romanian peasant life and country’s natural landscape, an excellent product of those very creative decades of early 20th c. in this country.©Valentin Mandache: Historic Houses of Romania
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25 Monday Jan 2010
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European royal families, Familia regala, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, istoria regalitatii, Noblesse et Royautés, Prince Leopold Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Romanian Royal Family
Prince Leopold Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (Pelesh Castle collection). Weekly Picture: Diana Mandache's Weblog Royal History
Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (Pelesh castle collection). Photo by Diana Mandache
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I endeavour in the “Weekly Pictures” post series to bring to light worthy of note, often less known images from the royal past and present and thus further enhance the understanding of royal history and what it represents for us.
Weekly picture: ©Diana Mandache’s weblog Royal History
Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author is strictly prohibited.
18 Monday Jan 2010
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Ernst of Hesse Darmstadt, European royal families, Familia regala, Queen Victoria, Saxe-Coburg, Victoria Melita Grand Duchess
Hall of Giants Ehrenburg Castle, Coburg (1894): Theatrical performance, Ludwig Barnay appearing as David Garrick before the royal party. [ 'David Garrick' - play written in 1864 by Thomas W. Robertson]
11 Monday Jan 2010
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Familia regala, istoria regalitatii, Queen Marie of Romania, Regina Maria, Romanian Royal Family
The Anglican Church was specially close to Queen Marie’s heart as she has been born & raised in that confession. She was a regular participant to church services for the whole period since the church was inaugurated in 1920, throughout her life. Please see the following interesting video which reviews the history of this building.
This post has initially been published under the authorship of Valentin Mandache on his blog Historic Houses of Romania.
The Bucharest Anglican church with its standard issue late Victorian Gothic style, designed by the Romanian architect V. Stefanescu, is quite a singular architectural presence in Bucharest, a city endowed with a rich Byzantine church architecture and a very incongruous mix of civilian architectural styles from French inspired, native Neo-Romanian, Art Deco, modernist and communist brutalist. The church was built in 1914-’20, and during the Cold War has been the sole functioning official Anglican church behind the Iron Curtain.©Valentin Mandache
10 Sunday Jan 2010
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European royal families, Familia regala, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, istoria regalitatii, King Carol I, Noblesse et Royautés, Queen Marie of Romania, Regele Ferdinand, Regina Maria, Romanian Royal Family, Royal Palaces
St Johann Evangelist church, Sigmaringen/ Photo ©Diana Mandache
On this day 117 years ago Princess Marie of Edinburgh & Ferdinand Prince of Romania got married at Sigmaringen, in the splendid baroque church shown above.
10 January 1893: At 16.30 hours the Dean Lauchert celebrated the religious wedding in the Roman Catholic rite in the Church of the Court. At this ceremony, beside the couple, participated the Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, King Carol I of Romania, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Princess Josephine of Hohenzollern, Prince and Princess Leopold of Hohenzollern, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught as representatives of Queen Victoria, the Great Duke Alexei of Russia, Princesses Victoria and Alexandra of Great Britain and Ireland, Prince Alfred of Great Britain, the Earl of Flanders and Prince Albert of Belgium and his son, the Crown Prince of Saxe-Meiningen with the Princess, Prince and Princess Wilhelm of Hohenzollern, Prince and Princess Frederick of Hohenzollern, Prince Carol of Hohenzollern, Earl Schuwalov the Russian Ambassador in Berlin, Sir Malet the English Ambassador in Berlin, Sir John Cowell, Major-General and Marshal of Queen Victoria’s Court, Major-General Arthur Ellis Marshal of the Prince of Wales’s Court, General Major Schrabisch messenger of the Duke of Coburg, Wedel Minister of Prussian Royal House, Chamberlain Edgar of Wedel, and on the part of Romania – the Prime Minister Lascar Catargiu, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Al. Lahovary, the president of law assemblies G.Gr.Cantacuzino and General G. Manu, former ministers Dimitrie A. Sturdza and General I.Em.Florescu and I.Kalinderu.
After the service, the Anglican vicar Mr. Lloyd, sent by Queen Victoria, celebrated the religious wedding in the Anglican rite in the Red Hall of the Sigmaringen Castle.
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