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Princess Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (Laura Williamina Seymour; 17 December 1832 – 13 February 1912) was a British-born aristocrat whose marriage to a German prince naturalised in England made her a kinswoman of the British Royal Family and a member of the royal court.
Princess Victoria Elisabeth von Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 20th Duchess of Medinaceli, GE (born 17 March 1997) is a Spanish noblewoman. Holding 43 officially recognised titles in the Spanish nobility, she is the most titled aristocrat in the world, as well as 10 times a Grandee of Spain.
16 de out. de 2023 · 16 October 2023. Princess Victoria of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, the 20th Duchess of Medinaceli, is officially married. The world’s most titled aristocrat (that's 43 at the last count) walked down the aisle this Saturday with her boyfriend Maxime Corneille Iribarren after the pair announced their engagement in May of this year.
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He was born at Langenburg in Württemberg, the third son of Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1794–1860) and Princess Feodora of Leiningen (1807–1872). His mother was Queen Victoria's half-sister, and his family was therefore closely related to the British Royal Family. Victor (sometimes spelled Viktor) became an officer in the British Royal ...
He became a sculptorafter retiring from the Navy. Examples of his work include 1. the huge statue of King Alfred in the market square of Wantage, Oxfordshire. 2. the Black Angel corbels and shields on the roof of the Banqueting Hall of The Convent, Gibraltarcarved in 1863 with monograms of the Kings and Queens of Great Britain and Spain who were in...
He married Laura Williamina Seymour, the younger daughter of Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour (under whom he served on HMS Cumberland in the 1850s) on 24 January 1861 in London. Shortly before his morganatic marriage, his wife was created Countess von Gleichen, after Gleichen which was at one stage owned by a branch of the Hohenlohefamily. They h...
A popular legend, confirmed in his daughter Helena's biography, was that Count von Gleichen was responsible for the introduction of the smoking room at Windsor Castle. As Queen Victoriahad forbidden gentlemen from smoking in her residences, Count von Gleichen discreetly smoked his pipe into his chimney. Unfortunately, his bedroom was underneath the...
In 1965, Prince Kraft married Princess Charlotte Alexandra von Croÿ, an art historian, long-time representative for Germany at Christies and later board member of the Hohenloher Kunstverein. Princess Charlotte was instrumental in the reconstruction of the castle, which burnt down in 1963.
14 de out. de 2023 · Princess Victoria of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, the 20th Duchess of Medinaceli married Maxime Corneille at the Iglesia de San Miguel in Jerez de la Frontera in a ceremony officiated by aristocratic priest Ignacio Sánchez-Dalp. the_royal_watcher. Jerez de la Frontera. View profile. the_royal_watcher. 14,157 posts · 75K followers. View more on Instagram.
Há 5 dias · But Feodora‘s idyllic childhood came to an abrupt end when Prince Emich Carl died suddenly in 1814 at age 51, leaving behind 8-year-old Carl and 6-year-old Feodora. The loss devastated the family both emotionally and financially. Princess Victoria was now a 27-year-old widow responsible for two small children and a principality burdened with ...
