European Royalty Film Clips
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| Queen Victoria Circa 1897 |
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Where is King George of Serbia? (Ken Magazine, 1938)
"Younger brother Alexander hated dashing, erratic Crown Prince George (1887 - 1972), darling of the Serbian people, so he framed him as a loony, got him exiled, and in due course became King instead. George made the mistake of writing an insulting letter and going back home on the heels of it. Now, in a remote Yugoslavian villa, surrounded by trees, hedges, and mustachioed detectives, the Serbian Bad Boy lives in solitary confinement, doing mathematical problems to keep from getting bored."A 1938 article which gave a brief account of the incarcerated Crown Prince George of Serbia. As the above makes clear, he was judged insane and locked up between the years 1925 through 1939. He was set free by the Nazis during their brief occupation of that country. Click here to read about the 1922 discovery of King Tut's tomb.
| Alexander of Yugoslavia Weds Marie of Romania (Vogue Magazine, 1922)
A beautifully illustrated page from Vogue Magazine reporting from Belgrade on the the royal wedding of Alexander I of Yugoslavia (1888 – 1934) and Marie of Romania (Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen: 1900 – 1961). An earlier posting on this site indicated that the groom had been promised in 1913 to wed Grand Duchess Olga of Russia (1895 - 1918), but there were complications.
Following Alexander's 1934 assassination, their oldest son, Peter II (1923 – 1970) assumed the throne and presided as the last king of Yugoslavia. *The 1934 Murder of Alexander I Was The First Assassination to be Caught on Film*
| Albert, King of the Belgians (Vanity Fair, 1914)
A Vanity Fair article by Ard Choille that recalls the low key visit that Belgium's Albert I (1875 – 1934) made to the U.S. in 1898 while in the company of his young bride, Elizabeth (1876 - 1965), formerly the Duchess of Bavaria. Published at a time when the Great War was in it's fourth month, the journalist was mindful of the valiant roll Albert was maintaining as the Commander-in-Chief of the struggling Belgian Army in the face of the German onslaught.
*Watch a Ten Minute Documentary About the 1914 Invasion of Belgium*
|   | Alfonso XIII and his Typewriter (Popular Mechanics, 1914)
Alfonso XIII of Spain (May 17, 1886 – February 28, 1941) is remembered as a pretty level-headed guy, but non the less the investigative reporters at "Popular Mechanics" dug deep and filed this story.
==In this Newsreel Footage, Spain's Alfonso XIII Goes Into Exile ==
| The Czar Abdicates (Atlanta Georgian, 1917)
A news report from March of 1917 announced:
"Czar Nicholas decided to to abdicate the Russian throne only after he had been held up by soldiers and the necessity for such action impressed upon him, according to a dispatch printed in The Frankfurter Zeitung ..."Also included in the report were the text of a speech delivered by the Czar which called for national unity. Click here to see a colored portrait of Grand Duchess Olga reviewing the Hussars. *Watch a Color Slide Show of the Romanov Family*
| Four Photgraphs of the Extended Royal Family (Vanity Fair, 1915)
Assorted photographs of the assembled German, Spanish, Belgian, Russian, Norwegian and British royal families, posed as they gathered to attend the the 1894 and 1896 Royal weddings at Coburg; also pictured is the group photo snapped at the 1898 shooting party at Sandringham. Queen Victoria appears in two of the pictures, while Kaiser Wilhelm II can be seen in all of them. ==A Film Clip Showing the 1901 Funeral Procession of Queen Victoria==
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