25 Saturday Dec 2010
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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].
12 Thursday Mar 2009
Posted in Romanian Royal Family
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Carmen Sylva, Familia regala, Familia regala romana, Germany, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King Carol I, Queen Elizabeth of Romania, Regele Carol I, Regina Elisabeta, Romanian Royal Family, Royalty, Wied
Elizabeth of Romania & her daughter at Monrepos, July 1873 - Diana Mandache_RNA
This is a CDV showing Elizabeth of Romania (born princess of Wied) with her daughter Maria, which I found during my research at the Romanian National Archives. The photograph is taken at the Monrepos residence near Neuwied, in the summer of 1873 by Herman Koch, the Neuwied photographer. The image is well known among historians, but the identity of the photographer was often in dispute. In Romania, many believe that the person was Carol Popp Szathmary, an official photographer of the Romanian Royal Family, in the early years of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen dynasty. It might have been the case that Szathmary made copies of this image in Romania, a few years later after it was produced. Through this finding I am now happy to put to rest the controversy and confirm Herman Koch as the originator of this historically important photograph. DM
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19 Monday Jan 2009
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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
19 Monday Jan 2009
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Balkans, Eastern Europe, Familia regala, Familia regala romana, Heritage, History, Queen Marie of Romania, Regina Maria, Romania, Romanian Royal Family, Royal heritage, Royalty
I noticed a more frequent sale in the last 6 months of many royal items auctioned by big name houses than in any other period in the last decade, perhaps occasioned by the current liquidity crisis. For example there went under the hammer in the autumn season the desk watch of Queen Maria of Yugoslavia, the famous Wittelsbach blue diamond, or other items that belonged to the Italian royal family. Now Christie’s has scheduled for auction a cast from a model by Pierre Francqueville (or Pietro Francavilla, as he was later known, b.1548 – d.1615), dating from 17th century of Saturn resting his foot on the back of a capricorn figure; the reverse of the tree-trunk is engraved with the French Royal inventory number ‘N o 284. Depicted standing in strong contrapposto against a tree trunk, the child in his left hand and with his right foot resting on the head of a goat; on a later, cylindrical, ormolu-mounted pedestal. The statue has a dark chocolate-brown patina with lighter high areas; high: 48 x 54.5cm.’ The statue is in the property of Truesdall collection and is valued by Christie’s between $ 700,000 – 900,000, a huge sum indeed. It remains to be seen if in the actual downturn that estimate would hold. DM
N.B. I write this note on 29 January 2009 after the end of the auction in New York: The statue has not been sold! That is most probably because it did not reach the reserve price, a consequence of the actual downturn in the art market.
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18 Sunday Jan 2009
Posted in Historic Residences, Romanian Royal Family
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Aristocracy, Balkans, Castles, Chateau, Conac, Eastern Europe, Familia regala, Familia regala romana, Heritage, History, Manor, Romania, Romanian Royal Family, Royal heritage, Royal Palaces, Royalty
Princess Elisabeta of Romania, the former Queen of Greece, bought Banloc Manor in 1935 from the Karátsonyi family, local Hungarian-Italian aristocrats, from the Banat region of Romania. Elisabeta restored and remodelled the manor, using it as a holiday residence for herself and other members of the royal family, among them King Michael of Romania and Helen, the Queen Mother. Continue reading »
30 Tuesday Dec 2008
Posted in Anniversaries & Birthdays, Romanian Royal Family
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Carmen Sylva, Eastern Europe, Familia regala, Familia regala romana, History, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King Carol I, Mignon, Monarhia, Nicholas, Postcards, Queen Elizabeth of Romania, Queen Marie of Romania, Regele Carol I, Romanian Royal Family, Royalty
A Happy New Year 2009 … a hundred years later
The Romanian Royal Family, 1909 - Diana Mandache collection
In 1909 King Carol celebrated his 70th anniversary. The Romanians were very fond of their monarchs and season greetings cards like this were very popular in Bucharest.
Birthday celebrations at Bucharest: King Carol I during his speech at the Gala Dinner at the Royal Palace on 20 April 1909 expressed his warm thanks to the German Emperor for having sent Wilhelm, the Crown Prince of Germany to congratulated him on his 70th birthday. King Carol 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”.
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05 Friday Dec 2008
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Familia regala, Familia regala romana, Genealogy, History, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King Charles I of Romania, Regele Carol I, Regele Ferdinand, Romania, Romanian Royal Family, Royal Genealogies, Royalty
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02 Tuesday Dec 2008
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Alfred Duke of Edinburgh, Britain, British Royal Family, documents, Familia regala, Familia regala romana, History, Queen Marie of Romania, Queen Victoria, Regina Maria a Romaniei, Romania, Romanian Royal Family, Royalty, Victorian age
At “Grand Mama’s Court”
(extract)
When we look back upon our childhood, all memories come to us through a haze of mystery. Everything seems larger, deeper, further off, full of unraveled possibilities, unexplained…
In later life things never come to us quite in this way. And looking back, I see Queen Victoria or Grand Mama ‘Grand Mama Queen’ as we used to call her to distinguish her from other Grand mama in far-off Russia who was ‘Grand Mama Empress’.
Queen Victoria
And I see ‘Grand Mama Queen’ come towards me down the long, long corridor leaning on her stick. She is all in botchy black silk with a white widow’s cap on her head and she is a tiny weeny old lady, quite, quite small. Tap, tap, goes her stick… and as the long Windsor corridor has a bend in it I hear the tap, tap long before I see her herself and it is extraordinary how the tap, tap of, that stick could make our children’s hearts beat. Then she was there before us and though she was tiny, we were in those days tinier still and she bent towards us to kiss our foreheads whilst we kissed her hand. Continue reading »
27 Thursday Nov 2008
Posted in European royal families, Romanian Royal Family
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