#house of sayn wittgenstein

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Princess Alana Sayn-Wittgenstein wedding dress, designed by Jorge Acuña

https://www.instagram.com/p/ByXiJ4CAuNc/

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Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg Fringe Tiara ♕ Gustav, 7th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

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✵ June 18, 2011 ✵

Princess Nathalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg & Alexander Johannsmann

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“Princess Sofia zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn looked so beautiful in her wedding to Archia Akhavan-Kharazian. The headpiece she wore was magical, and her dress was modest but lovely and enchanting. Just a perfect look for a "quarantine wedding".” - Submitted by Anonymous

[royaltyandpomp]

THE GARDEN

Schloss Sayn Garden

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Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg Wedding

The Danish royal court has announced that Prince Gustav of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Carina Axelsson are getting married on June 4th at Berleburg Castle!

Prince Gustav is the only son of Princess Benedikte and the late Prince Richard of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg which makes him a nephew of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. The couple have been together for 19 years but have not yet married due to the conditions set in Gustav's grandfather's will which required him to marry someone noble, protestant, and white...yeah. The family have been fighting it in court for years with little success. Gustav recently won a case against a more distant family member, Prince Ludwig Ferdinand. He's the only member of the family that is against the will being overturned but he's not even the person that would inherit everything or become head of the S-W-B house so I don't really know how that fits into the whole situation except that it seems to have paved the way for Gustav and Carina to get married.

Despite not being married, Carina has been completely accepted by the family and treated as Gustav's spouse. We usually see her at big Danish royal family events and she is the godmother of Princess Athena but most importantly for us is that she has been loaned a few tiaras. Here she is wearing Queen Sophia of Sweden's Pearl & Star Tiara, the Bernstorff-Gyldensteen Diamond Floral Tiara (borrowed from CP Mary's lady-in-waiting), and the S-W-B Diamond Spike Tiara. The last one is her most worn tiara and the most mysterious. She started wearing it in 2010 and is the only known wearer except for a blurry photo of a women who might be Princess Katharina of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, wife of Gustav's cousin, wearing it at Gustav's sister, Princess Alexandra's, wedding to Count Jefferson von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth in 1998.

For her wedding tiara I would really love to see Carina wear Princess Benedikte's Diamond Floral Tiara because I think floral tiaras always look lovely on brides and this is a particularly beautiful one. It was created out of different brooches at the direction of Queen Ingrid for Princess Benedikte's 18th birthday but unless you look really closely at the shape of the leaves in the side and center sections you would never know that it's a frankentiara.

[duchessofostergotlands]

Wait what’s the background on the carina situation? Is this like that other European royal couple who were banned from marrying because she was a commoner - I forget their name but they were either Dutch or scandi I think?

Oh so much worse. But I'm getting ahead of myself! You're probably thinking about the greatest royal love story of the last century, Bertil and Lilian in Sweden. They had to wait 33 years before they were able to marry, because Lilian was a commoner and their marriage wouldn't have been approved so therefore would have removed him from the line of succession.

In this current situation, Carina is engaged to Prince Gustav (nephew of the Queen of Denmark, although that's not really that important to the story). He is the Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. It's a German title so doesn't really mean much anymore but it does come with property, a lovely castle in Germany in particular. The issue here is about inheritance of that property. Gustav's grandfather (also called Gustav, the German princely houses get very confusing) was a Nazi. He left a will that that stated that in order to inherit the property his heir had to marry someone (if he married) who was noble, Protestant, and Aryan. Yep. I'm actually wondering now that I look at this whether the will just applied to Gustav because he left the property to his then unborn grandchild (Gustav Sr went missing during action and wasn't declared dead until decades later when Gustav Jr was born). So maybe this does draw a line under it entirely.

But either way obviously it's horrible just because of the facts of it: explicitly banning someone from inheriting property because they married someone who isn't White is a level of discrimination even other royal families would cringe at. However, I think it's also difficult because when it came to Sweden's case there were changing societal attitudes which allowed Bertil and Lilian to marry . People wouldn't have wanted a monarchy where someone was excluded because they weren't noble or royal. Whereas you can't overturn someone's will just because you don't agree with them. You have to demonstrate the will itself is invalid. And as it only impacted one guy who isn't actually a representative of Germany, he didn't have that societal pressure. Gustav and Corina have basically just been waiting to see what the courts say for years and there have been previous cases which ended with the court saying that the will couldn't be overturned

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beymeg replied to your post “AAAAAAH! so pumped for gustav and carina...”

Will their Children be able to suceed them? Has the house rules been changed?

I have no idea, to be honest with you. The way I've understood the whole situation is that now that Gustav is the legal owner of Berleburg, he can marry whoever he wants. I don't know how that would affect possible children. But then, they're both 53 – Carina turns 54 in August – so unfortunately I don't know if the question of children is even relevant anymore or if it's been completely marred by his racist grandfather's will 🤮 I'm personally not a supporter of surrogacy but I feel this is a prime example of a case in which it could be justified. I also think Alexandra's son Richard lives in Berleburg which has prompted me to speculate a bit that Gustav intends let him inherit at least the castle (don't know if he can also change the primogeniture to allow Richard to succeed him as head of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (or Alexandra, if she outlives Gustav) – although as the head, surely he should be able to do that, right?).

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Libraries Round the World: Seashells, Bones, and Books at Denmark's Egeskov Castle

Libraries Round the World: Seashells, Bones, and Books at Denmark’s Egeskov Castle

Egeskov castle in Denmark dates from 1554 with a library collection of seashells, animal bones, and books. The owners over the centuries went to great lengths to be well prepared for unwanted house guests and attacks.  

Undated painting. Despite modernized guardhouse still much the same

Today Egeskov castle is the home of Count Michael Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille and his wife, Princess…

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In February 1847, Liszt (Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer) played in Kiev. There he met the Polish Princess Karolina Sayn-Wittgenstein, who was to become one of the most significant people in the rest of his life.

Princess Karolina Sayn-Wittgenstein, née Iwanowska (1819–1887) was a Polish szlachcianka (noblewoman). She was also an amateur journalist and essayist, and it is conjectured that she did much of the actual writing of several of Liszt's publications, especially his Life of Chopin.

On 26 April 1836, just two months after her 17th birthday (and with pressure from her father), Karolina married Prince Nicholas von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg-Ludwigsburg, an officer in the Russian service who was also a member of an ancient noble house as the son of Peter Wittgenstein. They briefly lived together in Kyiv, but she was unhappy in the city and moved to her country home at Woronińce, one of her family's many estates. They had one child together, Marie Pauline Antoinette.

Princess Karolina was a fervent Roman Catholic, but separated from her husband after only a few years of marriage. In 1844 her father died, leaving her a fortune. On February 2, 1847, while on a business trip to Kyiv, she attended a piano recital by Franz Liszt during his third tour of the Russian Empire, at the peak of his international celebrity. After meeting in person, she invited him to Poland, first for her daughter's 10th birthday party and then for an extended stay. In September 1847, Liszt permanently retired from touring and began living with Karolina at Woronińce, where he composed significant portions of the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses. The following year, they moved together to the German city of Weimar, where Liszt had already been appointed as Kapellmeister Extraordinaire, and where the couple would remain for over a decade.

Eventually Karolina wished to regularise their situation and marry Liszt; she had to convince the Roman Catholic authorities that her marriage had been invalid. After an intricate process that involved moving to Rome and making two direct papal audiences, she temporarily was successful (September 1860), and the couple planned to marry in Rome on 22 October 1861, Liszt's 50th birthday. Liszt arrived in Rome the previous day, only to find the princess unable to marry him. It appears that both her husband and the tsar of Russia managed to quash permission for the marriage at the Vatican. The Russian government also impounded her several estates (she owned thousands of serfs), which made her later marriage to Liszt, or anyone, unfeasible.

After the aborted wedding, Karolina's relationship with Liszt became one of platonic companionship, especially after 1865 when he received minor orders in the Catholic Church and became an abbé. Though they no longer lived together, they remained connected, for example dining together when Liszt was in Rome, and naming each other as chief beneficiary of their wills. Karolina spent her final several decades in Rome writing extensively on church issues. She was devastated by Liszt's death and survived him only a few months, dying on 9 March 1887 in Rome.

[vicentja]

Princess Alana Sayn-Wittgenstein Sayn 

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18th Birthday Tiara ♕ Princess Benedikte

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✵ May 18, 2019 ✵

Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg & Count Michael Ahlefeldt

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"If Benedikte should cook our dinner, I would have died a long time ago. She can't even make coffee

Prince Richard of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

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Mir Castle Complex( MUSEUMS OF MY COUNTRY     )

Location of Mir Castle Complex in Belarus

The Mir Castle Complex (Belarusian: Мірскі замак, Łacinka: Mirski zamak, Lithuanian: Myriaus pilis, Polish: Zamek w Mirze) is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Belarus.[  "21 World Heritage Sites you have probably never heard of". Daily Telegraph.     https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/galleries/21-World-Heritage-Sites-you-have-probably-never-heard-of/   ] It is in the town of Mir, in the Kareličy District of the Hrodna voblast, at 53°27′4.46″N 26°28′22.80″E, 29 kilometres (18 mi) north-west of another World Heritage site, Niasviž Castle. Mir Castle Complex is 164 metres (538 ft) above sea level.[    "21 World Heritage Sites you have probably never heard of". Daily Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/galleries/21-World-Heritage-Sites-you-have-probably-never-heard-of/      ]

From 1921 to 1939 the castle belonged to the territory of Poland.

Duke Juryj Ivanavič Illinič (pl:Jerzy Iwanowicz Ilinicz) began construction of the castle near the village of Mir after the turn of the 16th century in the Polish Gothic style. Five towers surrounded the courtyard of the citadel, the walls of which formed a square of 75 metres (246 ft) on each side. In 1568, when the Ilyinich dynasty died out, the Mir Castle passed into the hands of Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł, who refitted it with a two-winged, three-story stately residence along the eastern and northern inner walls of the castle. Plastered facades were decorated with limestone portals, plates, balconies and porches in the Renaissance style.

In 1817, after the castle had been abandoned for nearly a century and had suffered severe damage in the Battle of Mir (1812), owner Dominik Hieronim Radziwiłł died of battle injuries and the castle passed to his daughter Stefania, who married Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. Later the castle became a possession of their daughter Maria, who married Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst.

Their son, Maurice Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, sold the castle to Mikalaj Sviatapolk-Mirski, of the Bialynia clan, in 1895. Nikolai's son Michael began to rebuild the castle according to the plans of architect Teodor Bursze. The Sviatapolk-Mirski family owned the castle until 1939, when the Soviet Unionoccupied eastern Poland.

When German forces invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, they occupied the castle and converted it to a ghetto for the local Jewish population, prior to their liquidation. Between 1944 and 1956, the castle was used as a housing facility, resulting in damage to the castle's interior.

In December 2000, the Mir Castle was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.[    "Landmarks, historic and cultural, and natural sites of the Republic of Belarus on the UNESCO World Heritage List". Land of Ancestors. National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus. 2011. Retrieved 12 October2013.   http://landofancestors.com/travel/statistics/resources/culture-and-arts/287-landmarks-historic-and-cultural-and-natural-sites-of-the-republic-of-belarus-on-the-unesco-world-heritage-list.html    ]

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Mystery solved. This dog-eared photograph in our Department's archives is the earliest known representation of elements of armor for man and horse that Bashford Dean, the founder and first curator of our Department, had in his private collection and bequeathed to us in 1928. The rider's helmet is a probable work of the celebrated Augsburg armorer Kolman Helmschmid and certainly one of the gems in our collection. Where did Dean acquire this equestrian ensemble? We did not know, but the photograph, which was taken before he owned it, seemed a potential clue. The humble document has now lived up to our expectations, for the same image was found in an auction catalogue, of which we did not have a copy. The equestrian ensemble was a lot in a 1920 German sale of property from the German House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, and one of a group of items that, by way of a complicated inheritance process, had come to them from the armory of the Princes Radziwill in Nesvizh Castle, Belarus (at the time Lithuania.) This new provenance confirms stylistic evidence that out helmet belongs to other elements known to originate from the same armory and that are now widely scattered. It is now time to track them all down and reconstruct, on paper at least, the luxury armor of which they were parts! Photo: @pierre.terjanian #themet #metarmsandarmor #armor #provenance #clue #sayn #wittgenstein #radziwill #research #piecingittogether #bashforddean (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuZ6go8HGiQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cwf52okk50bu