{"id":1993668,"date":"2025-09-02T22:39:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1993668"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:39:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:39:59","slug":"catching-up-with-the-royals-sept-2-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/catching-up-with-the-royals-sept-2-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with the royals (Sept 2, 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Princess Marie Caroline and Leopoldo Maduro Vollmer at the wedding in St. Florin Cathedral in Vaduz, Liechtenstein (Source: Princely House\/Iconoclash Photography – Teresa Marenzi & Daniel Bachler) and Helen Morgan at her marriage to Lord Hugh Carnegie (Photo: @paullyonmaris on Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Two royal weddings, two historic fringe tiaras, one weekend. <\/p>\n

In Liechtenstein, Princess Marie Caroline, the only daughter of Prince Alois, the Hereditary Prince, <\/span>married<\/a> Leopoldo Maduro Vollmer. The <\/span>couple are based <\/a>in London but married in Vaduz. The Princess wore a wedding favourite of her family: the Hapsburg fringe tiara, which has been worn by at least four generations of her family. (More on the tiara <\/span>from the Court Jeweller<\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: Princely House\/Iconoclash Photography – Teresa Marenzi & Daniel Bachler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Meanwhile, Kate Morgan wore the historic Fife fringe tiara at her wedding to Lord Hugh Carnegie, son of the Duke of Fife. Both tiaras date back to the late Victorian era of the 19th century, which was a heyday of tiaras. <\/p>\n

The Hapsburg version is believed to be from 1890, while the Fife one is a year younger, and was a <\/span>wedding present to Princess Louise <\/a>to the Duke of Fife by her parents, the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The two Fife tiaras on display at Kensington Palace: The fringe tiara and the main Fife tiara (Photos: handouts from Historic Royal Palaces)<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

On a long-term loan at Kensington Palace along with the stupendous Fife tiara (featuring gumdrop-sized diamonds), the Fife fringe tiara has been absent for much of the summer due to family weddings. In June, Hugh\u2019s brother, George, married Matilda St. Aubyn, who also wore the tiara, according to <\/span>Tatler<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

After weeks and weeks of speculation, the<\/span> Mail on Sunday says it\u2019s confirmed that William, Kate, and the kids cruised the Greek Isles on a spectacular yacht<\/a>. Rumours about their Greek vacation had been running wild all summer: the royals were on a megayacht owned by a royal from the United Arab Emirates; or on a boat owned by Microsoft billionaire Charles Simonyi; or an eco-conscious yacht called with Almax. <\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, the British tabloid stated that Kefalonia Press had confirmed the Wales family were on a yacht called the Lady Beatrice, which is owned by a British financier Peter Dubens. His firm is an investor in the old school of the royal kids, Thomas\u2019s Battersea, the Mail states. <\/p>\n

What is noteworthy is the intense privacy surrounding the Wales family\u2019s yacht vacation, which would have cost a pretty penny if they were renting on the open market (likely six figures per day). Given past royal vacations in the Mediterranean, it\u2019s unlikely they went that commercial route. It must be nice to be able to snag such a large yacht to take a leisurely vacation in the middle of the summer holiday season. <\/p>\n

The Mail on Sunday piece comes after <\/span>Russell Myers of the Daily Mirror revealed<\/a> that Queen Camilla had enjoyed her own Greek cruise on the yacht belonging to a <\/span>Saudi-Canadian billionaire named Wafic Saif<\/a>, who has donated heavily to charitable causes in Britain. Unlike the super-private Wales vacation, Camilla\u2019s sea vacation went public when the tabloid got a long-distance photo of the Queen on the yacht. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, will be in Alberta from Sept 4-7 as the <\/span>new royal patron<\/a> of Spruce Meadows, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The RCMP Musical Ride and Lord Strathcona\u2019s Horse \u2014 back from guarding royal residences in Britain \u2014 will be at the huge sporting venue outside of Calgary.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Telegraph\u2019s <\/span>editorial cartoonist, Matt Pritchett<\/a>, is getting ready for President Trump\u2019s upcoming state visit by referencing an <\/span>excerpt in the Times from Valentine Low<\/a>\u2019s upcoming book of how the future Queen Camilla fended off an attempted sexual assault on a train when she was a 16 or 17-year old: \u201cI did what my mother taught me to. I took off my shoe and whacked him in the nuts with the heel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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I always admire the skill of editorial cartoonists in how they can combine several news stories into one cogent cartoon. (Here is <\/span>Matt\u2019s X\/Twitter account<\/a> to see more of his creations). <\/span><\/p>\n

Valentine Low<\/a>\u2019s second book, <\/span>Power and the Palace: The Inside Story of the Monarchy and No. 10 Downing Street <\/em>is published by Headline Press on Sept. 11. Given his track record \u2014 he was a longtime royal correspondent for the Times and his first book, <\/span>Courtiers<\/em>, was an impeccably sourced bestseller \u2014 this promises to be one of the best royal books of 2025. <\/span><\/p>\n

Certainly, the excerpts published in the Times have sparked lots of interest\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source writeroyalty.substack.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Princess Marie Caroline and Leopoldo Maduro Vollmer at the wedding in St. Florin Cathedral in Vaduz, Liechtenstein (Source: Princely House\/Iconoclash Photography – Teresa Marenzi & Daniel Bachler) and Helen Morgan at her marriage to Lord Hugh Carnegie (Photo: @paullyonmaris on Instagram) Two royal weddings, two historic fringe tiaras, one weekend. In Liechtenstein, Princess Marie Caroline, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1993669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Catching-up-with-the-royals-Sept-2-2025.com2Fpublic2Fimages2F9ab94671-a0c1-40b7-9ce9-ce42b.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}