25 Saturday Dec 2010
Posted in Romanian Royal Family
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Casa Regala, Christmas Message, Eastern Europe, European royal families, Familia regala, Familia regala romana, History, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, istoria regalitatii, King Michael of Romania, Monarhia, Noblesse et Royautés, Regele Mihai, Romanian Royal Family, South-East European Monarchs
King Michael of Romania’s Christmas 2010 message (via Romania Altfel. A blog by Prince Radu of Romania) – click the image above to access the article [in Romanian].
28 Tuesday Apr 2009
Posted in Exhibitions, Romanian Royal Family
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Anne of Bourbon-Parma, Carmen Sylva, Casa Regala, Crown Princess Margarita, Familia regala, istoria regalitatii, King Carol I, King Ferdinand, King Michael of Romania, Mignon, Monarhia, Principesa Margareta, Queen Anne, Queen Elizabeth of Romania, Queen Marie of Romania, Regele Carol I, Regele Ferdinand, Regele Mihai, Regina Elisabeta, Regina Maria, Romanian Royal Family
The National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest is hosting a new exhibition on the Romanian Royal Family, scheduled for opening at the end of next week. I am one of the organisers and plan to write more in a forthcoming post about this important royal history event after 10 May (Romania’s National Royal Day) when the exhibition will be in full swing. I also contributed with a number of exhibits from my own collection, among them a series of letters between Queen Mother Helen and Prince Leonid Lieven. Stars of the exhibition are some rare portrait paintings loaned from the National Museum of Arts Queen Marie, King Carol I, King Ferdinand, Princess Elisabeta, King Michael and his mother Queen Helen. ©Diana Mandache
18 Saturday Apr 2009
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05 Sunday Apr 2009
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Casa Regala, European royal families, Familia regala, Habsburg, Ileana Archduchess of Austria, istoria regalitatii, Monarhia, Noblesse et Royautés, Princess Ileana, Principesa Ileana, Romanian Royal Family
Princess Ileana of Romania takes the part at Cromer Carnival. Norfolk, 1925. Source: RNA
Self-managed theatre performances were a popular Edwardian period pastime for aristocrats and well to do individuals. This photograph shows Princess Ileana playing in a theatre performance at Cromer Carnival, Norfolk. The other fellow amateur actors were local family friends, among them her aunt Beatrice, Infanta of Spain who lived in Esher (Surrey). ©Diana Mandache
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29 Sunday Mar 2009
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Casa Regala, Crown Princess Margarita of Romania, European royal families, Familia regala, istoria regalitatii, King Michael of Romania, Monarhia, Noblesse et Royautés, Prince Radu, Principele Radu, Principesa Margareta, Queen Anne, Regele Mihai, Regina Ana, Romanian Royal Family
Princess Margarita‘s birthday celebrations were organised in Bucharest & Sinaia: on 26th March – a private Gala Dinner at the CEC Bank Palace from Calea Victoriei Avenue; on 27th March – the Romanian royals made a visit with their guests to Sinaia at Pelesh Castle. They returned in Bucharest in the same day to attend a Gala Performance at the National Opera at 6.30 pm. ©Diana Mandache
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26 Thursday Feb 2009
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Casa Regala, European royal families, Familia regala, History, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, istoria regalitatii, King Carol I, Monarhia, Regele Carol I, Regina Elisabeta, Romania, Romanian Royal Family, Royalty
A special invitee was the German Emperor’s Heir sent to Bucharest to congratulate the Romanian sovereign with the occasion of his 70thbirthday. King Carol I was awarded the rank of German Field Marshal and also presented at the ceremony with a silver votive plate (pictured here). Carol gave a speech at the Royal Palace Gala Dinner (see the seating plan in the picture bellow) in which he said: “The Emperor gives me thereby a new proof of his sentiments of kinship and strengthens the bond of love that for long years has existed between us. My appointment as General Field Marshal makes closer my bond with the Prussian Army which during the 50 years that has existed has become indissoluble”. ©Diana Mandache
The Seating plan for the Gala Dinner, 20 April 1909 - Diana Mandache collection
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19 Monday Jan 2009
Posted in Romanian Royal Family
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Balkans, Casa Regala, Clone, copyright, Eastern Europe, Familia regala, Familia regala romana, King Michael of Romania, Queen Marie of Romania, Regina Maria, Romania, Romanian Royal Family, Royalty, Splog
All the content of my weblog is copy – pasted including images into a splog (spam blog) so-called “casa regala” maintained by a person resident in Romania:
He or she doesn’t have my permission to do that and in fact plainly plagiarises my work and research. It is a blatant intellectual theft and piraterry. It aggravates me very much when some people steal authors’ work such as mine without proper acknowledgement and thus seek to promote themselves on the back of others. It looks that this sort of individuals, also known as hackers, although I grace them too much with that designation, are a plague in Romania, where even big organisations such as ebay have complained about. As a consequence please do not take into consideration any of the posts published by ”casa regala”, the culprit blog mentioned above.
Diana Mandache
17 Saturday Jan 2009
Posted in European royal families
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Balkans, Casa Regala, Eastern Europe, European royal families, Familia regala, History, Imperial Russia, King Ferdinand, Queen Marie of Romania, Regina Maria, Romania, Romanian Royal Family, Romanoff, Romanov, Royalty, Russia, Tsar Nicholas II
Domine Salvum Fac Imperatorem – Domine Salvum Fac Imperatricem
I synthesise here from the newspapers of the time (New York Times, Illustrated London News): The Emperor Nicholas II wore the dark-green and gold uniform of a General of the Guards, with high boots. The Empress Alexandra was dressed in a silver robe, with a long train, borne by four pages. After donning the mantle the Emperor assumed the diamond collar of St Andrew.
Nicholas II received the imperial crown from the Metropolitan of St Petersburg and placed it upon his head, then took his sceptre, on top of which the famous Orloff diamond blazed. The orb of the empire was placed in his right hand and the emperor then ascended the Dias, taking his seat upon the throne with the Empress still standing next to him.
This was the supreme moment of all, and when gazing around the church, and seeing representatives from nearly every district of this mighty empire beholding the Tsar sitting on his throne of state, with the symbols of power given to him by the highest religious authority in the land, one had a realizing sense of the great power wielded by the man who was now Russia’s sovereign, for whom the grandiose coronation function was held. The Empress knelt before him on a crimson velvet cushion and the Emperor placed upon her head her own crown, distinctively surmounted by a large sapphire. The Empress’s Ladies of Honour fixed the crown on her head with a gold comb, and then robed her in her mantle of cloth of gold, ermine lined, similar with the Emperor’s. The coronation next procedeed with a grand fete and reception in the Granite Palace in the Kremlin. Among many royal guests were also present the crown prince and princess of Romania.
The image bellow shows the beautiful gown worn with that occasion by Marie of Romania, a first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II.
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03 Saturday Jan 2009
Posted in Historic Residences, Romanian Royal Family
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Casa Regala, documents, Familia regala, History, Queen Marie of Romania, Regina Maria, Romania, Romanian Royal Family, Royal Palaces, Royalty, Victorian houses in Romania
Queen Marie of Romania in peasant costume on the veranda of a traditional house ©Diana Mandache collection
To possess a home of her own is the dream of every woman’s life. No matter how small, how modest, but she wants it to be her very own, her nest, her refuge, her retreat. Even as a child, in imagination I was always building my home. I saw it in many shapes, for I was always a visionary. Beautiful pictures filled my soul, but I also wanted to create. Visions alone did not suffice me; I wanted to build, to realize, to accomplish. A sister, a year younger than myself, was my constant companion; with her I shared my dreams, and it was together with her that I built my first little dream-house. Absurd as it sounds, we built it out of a cast-away cupboard which an old family servant had obtained for us, I can’t remember how. We stood up this cupboard in a shady place among some bushes, added a thatched roof and painted a large heart upon its green door. The paint ran, so the heart became a bleeding heart, and in this narrow retreat we sat hand in hand dreaming. That was in my childhood. Continue reading »
