2/2019

FRANCE is the topic of Charlotte Zeepvat's family album in this and in two more issues; BOURBON (the old Royal Family of France) now, with ORLEANS and BONAPARTE to follow. Charlotte has outdone herself finding 100 old portraiits and photographs to share with us. She has also written another "Nannie article" called "Dearest Millie" featuring an English nurse working for Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna (Wladimir) and others. Stefan Haderer writes about the BALTAZZI family and its conenctions, sometimes fatal, to the Habsburgs while Bearn Bilker writes a biography of Princess Woizlawa-Feodora Reuss, née Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1918-2019).

64 pages, 167 illustrations

Articles in this issue:

"DEAREST MILLIE"
Letters to a Royal Nurse
by Charlotte Zeepvat

THE BALTAZZIS
A family's rise and fall in the Habsburg Empire
by Stefan Haderer

THE ROYAL HOUSE OF FRANCE
A Family Album
I: Bourbon
by Charlotte Zeepvat

THE NOVEMBER 1918 ABDICATIONS

Part III
by Bearn Bilker

WOIZLAWA-FEODORA
Royal Centenarian
by Bearn Bilker

World Wide Web of Royalty

The nursery party on the beach at Biarritz in about 1880: from the left, Grand Duke Kirill; Millicent Crofts with Grand Duke Boris; the Russian niania
holding Grand Duke Andrei and an unknown woman, probably a lady’s maid.

The French Royal Family in the 1780s.

Princess Woizlawa-Feodora Reuss with her Mecklenburg cousins, Edwina and Donata.

Helena Baltazzi, Baroness Vetsera