#Victoria Romanovna Bettarini

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Royal Hair Challenge - Day 11

Favorite Royal Wedding Hair

1. Beatrice Borromeo

2. Princess Eugenie

3. Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie (civil wedding)

4. Princess Margaret

5. Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis

6. Princess Charlotte of Bourbon Two Sicilies

7. Queen Jetsun Pema

8. Princess Iman

9. Victoria Romanovna (Rebecca Bettarini)

10. Beatrice Borromeo (again)

11. Princess Charlene

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Grand Duke George Romanov's longterm girlfriend Italian writer Rebecca Bettarini wears glittering tiara as they tie the knot in first 'royal wedding' to take place on Russian soil since revolution

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Princess Victoria Romanoff (wife of Grand Duke George of Russia) with her baby, the little Alexander.

The princess posted this picture on her Instagram and thanked the Gente Magazine for the attention they showed to her family.

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Upcoming Romanov Wedding Tiara

We’ve gotten better pictures from Point de Vue of Rebecca Bettarini choosing a tiara for her wedding in October so now I can identify them all.  From the eleven tiaras Chaumet offered the future Princess Victoria Romanovna, she chose the Lacis Tiara because it reminded her of a kokoshnik.

Radziwiłł Tiara, late 1800s

Talhouët Diamond Scroll Tiara, 1908

Crèvecœur Wheat Tiara, 1910

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Diamond & Enamel Wing Tiara, 1910

Bourbon Parme Tiara, 1919

Baroque Pearl Tiara, circa 1930

Joséphine Aigrette Impériale Tiara, 2015

Passion Incarnat Tiara, 2016

Valses d'Hiver Tiara, 2017

Mirage Tiara, 2020

Lacis Tiara, 2020

If Chaumet was offering you one of these tiaras, which would you choose?

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Grand Duke George of Russia, son of Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna (current head of the House of Romanov) announced the birth of his first son to his wife, Princess Victoria Romanovna (née Rebecca Bettarini) on october 21, 2022.

The baby's name is Alexander. Both mother and son are doing well.

[countvonreutern]

Many congratulations to His Imperial Highness Prince George The Grand Duke of Russia and Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Romanovna Romanoff née Bettarini on their wedding. 

George and Victoria got engaged at the Cathedral of Holy Trinity in Ipatiev Monastery in the Russian city of Kostroma on 24th January 2021.

They tied their knot in a civil ceremony at Khamovniki Civil Registry Office in Moscow on 24th September.

Finally, the happy couple were married at the St. Isaac’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia on 1 October.

His Serene Highness The Count of Münnich and Reutern sends his warmest congratulations to his Cousin, H.I.H. Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and H.S.H. Princess Victoria Romanovna Romanoff and wishes the couple “Мно́гая ле́та!” on this very special occasion.

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http://www.russianlegitimist.org/news-blog/2021/1/4/grand-duke-george-interviewed-in-point-de-vue

Grand Duke George (the legitimist heir to the throne) has announced his engagement. Here’s an interview with him and his fiancé from a few months ago.

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Monday, October 4, 2021

Governing by crisis (AP) Washington’s tempestuous week of walking, chewing gum, juggling balls and spinning plates at the same time is giving rise to apocalyptic rhetoric about the state and future of the country. Four big things are happening at once, all attended by hyperventilation. The White House talks of a “cataclysmic economic threat” if Republicans don’t start cooperating. Republicans assail Democrats for unleashing a “big-government socialist nation.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says: “Insanity and disaster are now the Republican Party line.” It’s a contest to see which side can bash back better. This is what governing by crisis looks like. The government has essential housekeeping to do this time of year. Yet no deal comes until it absolutely must. Why act at the 11th hour when you’ve got 59 minutes left? There are a couple of must-do’s. The government needed a law to keep itself open in the budget year that began Friday morning. That happened, with a few hours to spare. It also needs to raise or suspend its borrowing ceiling to cover current expenses and avoid a default on its debt payments over the next two weeks. Then there are the want-to-do’s. President Joe Biden, many Democrats and a sizable number of Republicans want to build or restore roads, bridges, broadband and more in an ambitious public works package. Biden and many Democrats, but no Republicans, also want to supercharge social and climate spending, potentially costing upward of three times more than the infrastructure one. All the plates are still spinning.

Military Bases Turn Into Small Cities as Afghans Wait Months for Homes in U.S. (NYT) In late August, evacuees from Afghanistan began arriving by the busload to the Fort McCoy Army base in the Midwest, carrying little more than cellphones and harrowing tales of their narrow escapes from a country they may never see again. They were greeted by soldiers, assigned rooms in white barracks and advised not to stray into the surrounding forest, lest they get lost. More than a month later, the remote base some 170 miles from Milwaukee is home to 12,600 Afghan evacuees, almost half of them children, now bigger than any city in western Wisconsin’s Monroe County. The story is much the same on seven other military installations from Texas to New Jersey. Overall, roughly 53,000 Afghans have been living at these bases since the chaotic evacuation from Kabul this summer that marked the end of 20 years of war. While many Americans have turned their attention away from the largest evacuation of war refugees since Vietnam, the operation is very much a work in progress here, overseen by a host of federal agencies and thousands of U.S. troops. While an initial group of about 2,600 people—largely former military translators and others who helped allied forces during the war—moved quickly into American communities, a vast majority remain stranded on these sprawling military way stations, uncertain of when they will be able to start the new American lives they were expecting. An additional 14,000 people are still on bases abroad, waiting for transfer to the United States.

Dwindling Alaska salmon leave Yukon River tribes in crisis (AP) In a normal year, the smokehouses and drying racks that Alaska Natives use to prepare salmon to tide them through the winter would be heavy with fish meat, the fruits of a summer spent fishing on the Yukon River like generations before them. This year, there are no fish. For the first time in memory, both king and chum salmon have dwindled to almost nothing and the state has banned salmon fishing on the Yukon, even the subsistence harvests that Alaska Natives rely on to fill their freezers and pantries for winter. The remote communities that dot the river and live off its bounty—far from road systems and easy, affordable shopping—are desperate and doubling down on moose and caribou hunts in the waning days of fall. “Nobody has fish in their freezer right now. Nobody,” said Giovanna Stevens, 38, a member of the Stevens Village tribe who grew up harvesting salmon at her family’s fish camp. “We have to fill that void quickly before winter gets here.” Opinions on what led to the catastrophe vary, but those studying it generally agree climate change is playing a role as the river and the Bering Sea warm, altering the food chain in ways that aren’t yet fully understood. Many believe commercial trawling operations that scoop up wild salmon along with their intended catch, as well as competition from hatchery-raised salmon in the ocean, have compounded global warming’s effects on one of North America’s longest rivers.

Crossing the Darien Gap (NYT) Migrants are surging at the Mexican border. Tens of thousands are passing through a deadly South American jungle to get there. The Darién Gap, a roadless, lawless land bridge connecting Colombia and Panama, was considered so dangerous that only a few thousand people a year tried to cross it. But the economic devastation wrought by the pandemic in South America has been such that 95,000 migrants, most of them Haitian, attempted the crossing in the first nine months of the year. “We very well could be on the precipice of a historic displacement of people in the Americas toward the United States,” a former national security adviser said. “When one of the most impenetrable stretches of jungle in the world is no longer stopping people, it underscores that political borders, however enforced, won’t either.”

Puerto Ricans fume as outages threaten health, work, school (AP) Not a single hurricane has hit Puerto Rico this year, but hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. territory feel like they’re living in the aftermath of a major storm: Students do homework by the light of dying cellphones, people who depend on insulin or respiratory therapies struggle to find power sources and the elderly are fleeing sweltering homes amid record high temperatures. Power outages across the island have surged in recent weeks, with some lasting several days. Officials have blamed everything from seaweed to mechanical failures as the government calls the situation a “crass failure” that urgently needs to be fixed. The daily outages are snarling traffic, frying costly appliances, forcing doctors to cancel appointments, causing restaurants, shopping malls and schools to temporarily close and even prompting one university to suspend classes and another to declare a moratorium on exams. Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority, which is responsible for the generation of electricity, and Luma, a private company that handles transmission and distribution of power, have blamed mechanical failures at various plants involving components such as boilers and condensers. In one recent incident, seaweed clogged filters and a narrow pipe.

Thousands in Brazil protest Bolsonaro, seek his impeachment (AP) With Brazil’s presidential election one year away, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and dozens of other cities around the country to protest President Jair Bolsonaro and call for his impeachment. Saturday’s protest targeted the president for his mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bolsonaro, who is not vaccinated and doesn’t usually wear a mask, has underestimated the severity of the virus and promoted crowds during the pandemic. Some 597,000 have died of COVID-19 in Brazil, a country of 212 million people. Demonstrators also protested surging inflation in mainstays like food and electricity. Over 130 impeachment requests have been filed since the start of Bolsonaro’s administration, but the lower house’s speaker, Arthur Lira, and his predecessor have declined to open proceedings. Division among the opposition is the key reason analysts consider it unlikely there will be enough pressure on Lira to open impeachment process.

Ecuador to pardon thousands of inmates after deadly prison riot (CNN) Ecuador plans to pardon and commute thousands of sentences in order to free up space in the country’s prisons following a deadly riot at a penitentiary in the coastal city of Guayaquil this week. The Director of Ecuador’s prison agency SNAI, Bolivar Garzon, said on Friday that up to 2,000 inmates, including elderly people, women and those with disabilities and terminal illnesses, would be prioritized on the pardon list for release and foreign nationals will be deported. Investigations are still ongoing at the Litoral penitentiary in Guayaquil, after violent clashes between rival gangs at the high-security facility left 118 inmates dead and dozens wounded on Tuesday. Those killed suffered from injuries resulting from bullets and grenades, according to regional police commander Fausto Buenaño. Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso said in a televised address on Wednesday that the prison was not yet entirely secured, and urged inmates’ relatives and families to stay away from the area.

After a century of waiting, Russians witness a royal wedding once more (NPR) Descendants of the czarist Romanov dynasty were married in the country’s first royal wedding in over a century—kicking off a weekend of lavish events that sparked public curiosity, awe and derision in seemingly equal measure. Under the dome of St. Isaac’s Cathedral in Russia’s former imperial capital city, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov, 40, married his Italian bride, Victoria Romanovna Bettarini, 39, in an Orthodox ceremony on Friday before priests and several hundred guests. Czarist trappings included an engagement ring “traditionally exchanged in the House of Romanov,” according to a press release. The Russian Orthodox Church’s top official in St. Petersburg, Metropolitan Varsonofy, blessed the ceremony. “It’s a kind of imperial wedding. A remembrance of eternal Russia—of sacred czars and patriarchs and (the) church,” philosopher Alexander Dugin said in an interview with NPR.

China tightens political control of internet giants (AP) The ruling Communist Party is tightening political control over China’s internet giants and tapping their wealth to pay for its ambitions to reduce reliance on U.S. and European technology. Anti-monopoly and data security crackdowns starting in late 2020 have shaken the industry, which flourished for two decades with little regulation. Investor jitters have knocked more than $1.3 trillion off the total market value of e-commerce platform Alibaba, games and social media operator Tencent and other tech giants. The party says anti-monopoly enforcement will be a priority through 2025. It says competition will help create jobs and raise living standards. President Xi Jinping’s government seems likely to stay the course even if economic growth suffers, say businesspeople, lawyers and economists. “These companies are world leaders in their sectors in innovation, and yet the leadership is willing to squash them all,” said Mark Williams, chief Asia economist for Capital Economics. Chinese leaders don’t want to reimpose direct control of the economy but want private sector companies to align with ruling party plans, said Lester Ross, head of the Beijing office of law firm WilmerHale. “What they are worried about is companies getting too big and too independent of the party,” said Ross.

China sends 77 warplanes into Taiwan defense zone over two days, Taipei says (CNN) Taiwan has reported a record number of incursions by Chinese warplanes into its air defense identification zone (ADIZ) for the second day in a row, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said on Saturday night. The self-governing island said a total of 39 Chinese military aircraft entered the ADIZ on Saturday, one more than the 38 planes it spotted on Friday. The 38 and 39 planes respectively are the highest number of incursions Taiwan has reported in a day since it began publicly reporting such activities last year. The incursions on Friday came as Beijing celebrated 72 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Taiwan and mainland China have been governed separately since the end of a civil war more than seven decades ago, in which the defeated Nationalists fled to Taipei. However, Beijing views Taiwan as an inseparable part of its territory—even though the Chinese Communist Party has never governed the democratic island of about 24 million people.

Leaked records open a ‘Pandora’ box of financial secrets (AP) Hundreds of world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires, celebrities, religious leaders and drug dealers have been hiding their investments in mansions, exclusive beachfront property, yachts and other assets for the past quarter-century, according to a review of nearly 12 million files obtained from 14 firms located around the world. The report released Sunday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists involved 600 journalists from 150 media outlets in 117 countries. It’s being dubbed the “Pandora Papers” because the findings shed light on the previously hidden dealings of the elite and the corrupt, and how they have used offshore accounts to shield assets collectively worth trillions of dollars. The more than 330 current and former politicians identified as beneficiaries of the secret accounts include Jordan’s King Abdullah II, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, Czech Republic Prime Minister Andrej Babis, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso, and associates of both Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The new data leak must be a wake-up call,” said Sven Giegold, a Green party lawmaker in the European Parliament. “Global tax evasion fuels global inequality. We need to expand and sharpen the countermeasures now.”

Cities rethinking transit (NYT) Trams, cable cars, ferries: Cities are rethinking transit. Berlin is reviving electric tram lines that were ripped out when the Berlin Wall went up. Bogotá, Colombia, is building cable cars to serve working-class communities. Bergen, Norway, is running battery-powered ferries and buses. Where cities are succeeding in these and similar efforts, they’re also finding benefits in cleaner air.

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Descendant of tsars becomes first royal to marry in Russia since revolution

Descendant of tsars becomes first royal to marry in Russia since revolution

ST PETERSBURG: A descendant of Russia’s former imperial family married his Italian bride on Friday in the first royal wedding to take place on Russian soil since tsarist times more than a century ago. Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov tied the knot with Victoria Romanovna Bettarini, an Italian, at St. Isaac’s Cathedral in Russia’s former imperial capital St Petersburg. Russian Orthodox…

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A Romanov return: Royal wedding in Russia after more than 100 years - CBS News

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Russia has first royal wedding since revolution toppled monarchy 104 years ago

Russia has first royal wedding since revolution toppled monarchy 104 years ago

Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov has tied the knot with Victoria Romanovna Bettarini (Picture: Getty Images/Reuters) European aristocrats flocked to St Petersburg today to watch Russia’s first royal wedding since the monarchy was destroyed by the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov, a descendent of the former imperial family, tied the knot with Victoria…

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Princess Victoria, Grand Duke George of Russia and their son Alexander. The princess shared this picture on her Instagram.

[tiaramania]

TIARA ALERT: Princess Victoria Romanova Romanoff (née Rebecca Bettarini) wore the Lacis Tiara by Chaumet at the gala celebrating her wedding to Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia at the Russian Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg on 1 October 2021.  

[countvonreutern]

Many congratulations to His Imperial Highness Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and Nob. Victoria Romanovna Bettarini on their engagement!

His Imperial Highness is the Count of Münnich and Reutern’s eleventh cousin once removed.

The wedding is expected to take place in Autumn 2021. 

Further details of the date and time of the wedding will be announced in due course.

[tiaramania]

Upcoming Romanov Wedding

On October 1st, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia will marry Rebecca Virginia Bettarini in St. Petersburg possibly at Vladimir Palace.  George is the son and heir of Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia, one of the claimants to the Russian throne.  The same rules that Maria Vladimirovna uses to claim headship of the Russian Imperial House means that her son will not inherit due having a morganatic marriage but they seem to be mostly ignoring that for the time being.  It was rumored that the reason the couple have waited so long to get married was because MV was trying to find a way around the Pauline Laws to no avail and it has been announced that after the wedding Rebecca will be Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Romanovna as opposed to Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Victoria but now to the important part...TIARAS!

According to Point de Vue Magazine, Rebecca will wear a the Lacis Tiara by Chaumet from their 2020 Perspectives de Chaumet High Jewelry Collection.  It was made by work-master Benoît Verhulle and features 438 diamonds set in white gold with the two largest diamonds being 5.02 and 2.21 carats.

Rebecca told the magazine that she chose it from the eleven tiaras offered because the shape is an homage to a kokoshnik.  From the tiaras set out on the table, it looks like she was also offered the Bourbon Parme Tiara and the Talhouët Scroll Tiara.

I am glad that they seem to be going all out because a big, potentially dramatic (it probably won’t be as dramatic as the pretenders to the Italian throne getting into a fist fight at Felipe & Letizia’s wedding but we can hope), royal-ish wedding is something fun to look forward to.

[tiaramania]

TIARA ALERT:  Princess Yasmine Murat wore the Precious Foliage Tiara by Chaumet at the gala celebrating the wedding of Princess Victoria Romanovna Romanoff (née Rebecca Bettarini) and Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia at the Russian Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg on 1 October 2021.