3/2024

Enjoy the LEININGEN family album, presented by Bearn Bilker, another dynasty with many royal and semi-royal connections. Marlene A Eilers Koenig writes about the wedding in 1904 of Alice of Albany to Alexander of Teck, tghe future Count and Countess of Athlone. Martijn Arts presents a bundle of signed postcards and letters from the Lippe-Biesterfield family and Elizabeth Jane Timms returns with Gisela - a bride for Bavaria. Have you ever wondered about the Dukes and Duchesses of Alba and how they sort of fit into the royal circles? Well, Dativo Salvia Ocaña give the whole fascinating history of this very different family in; The Fitz-James Stuart Dukes of Alba. Rick Hutto is back with another American Princess/Countess, Amelia of Roccagugliema whereas Ove Mogensen takes us out on another tourh through cryptz and vaults, this time in Roskilde, Denmark. The little-known royal in this issue is Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria-Tuscany, who married Prince Luitpold of Bavaria.