1/2026

In this issue of Royalty Digest Quarterly, with 167 illustrations, had article on the House of Battenberg-Mountbatten; Franz Ferdinand and Sophie Chotek; Tatiana Radziwill; The Royal Burial Places in Spain; The Duke of Montpensier and the Count of Baujolais; and Sophie Friederike - the first child of Empress Elisabeth .

The four Battenberg brothers brought together at Osborne in 1885 for Heinrich's wedding to Queen Victoria's youngest daughtrer, Princess Beatrice of England. His elder brother Louis was already married to Queen Victoria's granddaughter, Victoria of Hesse, and Sandro wanted to marry another of her granddaughters, Victoria of Prussia.

Everyone knows the story of Franz Ferdinand and the woman he chose to marry, Sophie Chotek. But who was she really? ANd what happened to their three orphaned children after Sarajevo?

Princess Tatiana Radziwill recently died, but what family background did she have? On her mother's side we find Greece, Bonaparte and Romanov - but what about the Radziwills?