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dozydawn · 10 months

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Princess Stéphanie of Monaco in front of a portrait of her mother, Princess Grace of Monaco, by Ralph Wolfe Cowan. Photographed by Bernard Charlon, 1984.

#princess stephanie #grace kelly #bernard charlon #ralph wolfe cowan #1980s #1984 #portrait #princess grace #princess stéphanie

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amaliaofnassau · 1 year

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the father of a friend of mine was one of the gynecologists to help Stéphanie birth her two babies and apparently she and Guillaume are a very nice, down-to-earth and friendly couple

#princess stéphanie #prince guillaume #finally some positive news for the luxis

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kronprinz-rudolf · 2 days

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Taaffe and Stéphanie

#evil besties <3 #uhhh happy lesbian visibility week! jshh #Eduard Taaffe #Crown Princess Stéphanie #mayerling 1936 #Jean Debucourt #Yolande Laffron #mayerling 1957 #Raymond Massey #Nancy Marchand #mayerling 1968 #Charles Millot #Andréa Parisy #taaffeweek #taaffe #movie #gif

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world-of-wales · 10 months

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CATHERINE'S STYLE FILES - 2023

4 JULY 2023 || The Princess of Wales attended day two of the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

Catherine opted for -

↬ Double-Breasted Two-Tone Crepe Blazer in Mint and White by Balmain

↬ A White Blouse

↬ White Pleated Midi Skirt (possibly from Christopher Kane)

↬ Chunky Knot Baroque Pearl Earrings by Shyla London

↬ 'Stéphanie' Howlite Cuff from Sézane

↬ 'Amberley' Small Crossbody Bag in 'White Grain Leather' by Mulberry

↬ 'Gianvito 105' Pumps in 'White Grain Leather' from Gianvito Rossi

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postcard-from-the-past · 26 days

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Princess Stéphanie Clotilde Louise Herminie Marie Charlotte of Belgium

Belgian vintage postcard

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aiiaiiiyo · 2 years

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#Princess Stéphanie of Monaco #doing what princesses do #in 1985 #theright82power #oldschool

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thecatalogueofroyalfashion · 1 year

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Princess Marie || Stéphanie Vaillé

#Princess Marie #Stéphanie Vaillé #Stephanie Vaille #dress #summerstyle

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boylerpf · 2 months

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This beautiful necklace was part of a jewelry set gifted to Princess Stéphanie of Belgium by the city of Budapest. The occasion of the gift was her marriage to Crown Prince Archduke Rudolf (son of Sissi) on 10 May 1881. The piece is inlaid with the so-called "Hungarian opal", which was highly prized in the history of jewelry. . Image: The Hungarian Opal Jewellery, Budapest, 1881, ©Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Schatzkammer

#jewelry #gold #jewellery #antique #antique jewelry #opal jewelry #opal #gold necklace #necklace #antiques #victorian

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hotvintagepoll · 6 days

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Shima Iwashita (Goben no Tsubaki)—Shima Iwashita was THE leading lady of Shochiku (one of the 3 major movie studios in Japan) for over 16 years, including the entirety of 1960s. She's been two-time winner of the Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actress and the winner of the Japanese Academy Award of actress in a leading role in 1977. Famously known in Japan as the actress best suited to wearing kimono, Iwashita often played elegant, strong-willed, and sometimes vengeful female characters. She is particularly adept at portraying women's independence and self-reliance, as well as their delicate inner feelings, and has portrayed a number of sentimental and individualistic women in her many period and contemporary dramas. Her talent was discovered by Yasujirō Ozu, one of the world's greatest filmmakers, who told Shochiku executives at the time, "She is an exceptional talent who comes along only once in a decade." Ozu cast her as the female lead in his final film An Autumn Afternoon before he died of cancer in 1963. Now at the age of 83, she is as beautiful as ever.

Grace Kelly (Rear Window, High Society, Dial M for Murder)—The literal princess of Hollywood (she retired at 26 to become princess of Monaco), her name said everything about why she was so hot. She carried herself with a grace and elegance you just don't see anymore. Her voice was sultry without being overbearing, and she had the ability to be sweet but suggest a deep sensuality at all times.

This is round 4 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Shima Iwashita:

Grace Kelly:

flawlessly beautiful and a literal princess

Her facial structure? Flawless. Her eyes? Stunning. Her hair? Gorgeous. Her style? Immaculate. Every second she’s on screen, she just exudes this elegance and sophistication. It’s no wonder she ended up marrying a prince. But she’s got this mischief in her eyes that is compelling.

She was so elegant, so beautiful and perfect I could cry for real. A fairy disguised as a woman.

the most beautiful of Hitchcock's "icy blondes". elegant, glamorous, she left hollywood to became an actual princess, I mean, COME ON

she's so pretty and refined and elegant! I'm pretty sure taylor swift's blonde hair red lip look is modeled partly after her

She's just so elegant, look at her all dressed up like a Barbie doll in the latest fashions. There's a quiet dignity about her.

Not only was she princess of Monaco she also is Stéphanie de Monaco's mother and yeah, vote for her she's soooo pretty That red dress in Dial M.... hot damn

To me, she is the first and only blonde. She earned it. Paired with Edith Head's costume design she is unstoppable. I dare anyone to watch her as Lisa Carol Fremont in Rear Window and not be completely blown away by her hotness.

SHE IS SO PRETTY AND FASHIONABLE!! Not only that but she has an alluring aura to her in whatever film I've seen her in! Rear Window is just one of my personal favorite films she was in, especially for her costumes in that. And how many actresses can you say was a princess consort in addition to being a famous leading lady?

#grace kelly #shima iwashita #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old woman #ladies 4

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charlotte-of-wales · 3 months

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Princess Charlene and Princess Stéphanie attend the Fight Aids Monaco Cup match in Monte Carlo | January 22, 2024

#princess charlene #princess stephanie #mpf #january 2024

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history-of-fashion · 1 year

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1881 Hans Makart - Princess Stéphanie of Belgium

(Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

#1880s #19th century #women #Hans Makart

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thewales · 3 months

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I understand that they have money but this is 😳😳 THE ESCÁNDALO WE NEEDED!

The Times:

Prince Albert of Monaco may have his faults, but no one could question his generosity.

Take his wife, for instance: Princess Charlene, whose spending far exceeds her official allowance of €1.5 million a year in the knowledge that her husband will pay the difference, according to Albert’s one-time éminence grise.

Charlene, 45, who was born in Zimbabwe and went on to represent South Africa as a swimmer, received a total of €7.5 million in the eight years following her marriage to Albert in 2011, according to Palmero. But she spent about €15 million during that time, he said. In April 2016, he said she had asked for €77,000. In 2020, he noted a payment of €200,000 into her bank account “plus €5,000 in cash”.

Among her expenses were €1 million to redecorate her office and €300 a day for her personal chef, Palmero said. He added that she employed nannies and other domestic staff who had arrived in Monaco as illegal immigrants, notably from the Philippines.

She is not alone. His former mistress has continued to benefit from his largesse as well, as do the two children he had out of wedlock before meeting Charlene, who seems to have been kept in the dark about these payments, according to French media.

The revelations about the ruler of the tiny Mediterranean principality were published by Le Monde after it obtained notebooks kept by Claude Palmero, who was officially the prince’s property manager until his sacking last year but who was widely viewed as a powerful influence at the palace.

The disclosures are damaging to Albert, 65, who has a hands-on role in running the country with one of the highest rates of millionaires in the world. He comes across as a feeble monarch being pushed around by the women in his life, including his two sisters, Princess Stéphanie, 58, and Princess Caroline, 67. Both are said by Palmero to use the crown jewels as personal fashion accessories. Caroline is accused of having evicted her brother from the management of the family château in Marchais in northeast France, where Palmero says there is “chaos in the inventory”.

Palmero, 67, who was dismissed after more than two decades at the palace for alleged disloyalty amid claims that he had left the royal finances in a “catastrophic” state, kept notes on the inner workings of the ruling family, including its expenditure.

Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, 31, Albert’s daughter with an American former waitress after a brief affair, receives $86,000 every three months, despite not being part of the royal family, Le Monde said. It added that Palmero noted her as having been given $5,000 for her 18th birthday and a flat in New York worth $3 million seven years later.

Palmero also noted that the palace was paying for kidnap and ransom insurance for Alexandre Coste, 20, Albert’s son with Nicole Coste, a Franco-Togolese former air hostess with whom he had a liaison during his bachelor days. Born out of wedlock, Coste is not in the line of succession either. In 2015, Coste’s mother persuaded Albert to back her fashion business, which was fronted by a shop in Knightsbridge, Le Monde said. Palmero noted in 2015 that it was “on course [to cost] one million [euros] a year”.

Maître Jean-Michel Darrois, Albert’s lawyer, told Le Monde that if illegal immigrants worked for Charlene, Palmero was to blame for having employed them. The lawyer also said that all expenses over and above official allowances were met by the prince’s private funds and did not affect the palace budget.

Darrois went on to accuse Palmero of having registered himself as the official owner of much of the royal family’s property portfolio, notably in Paris, where it is said to include a flat in the city’s wealthy 16th arrondissement for the prince’s bodyguards.

In a statement, Albert said: “The attacks that [Palmero] makes against me and against the state [of Monaco] and its institutions show his true nature and the little respect … he has for the family and the principality.”

Palmero, who was a powerful figure in the small but ultra-rich principality for a long time, fell from grace in 2023 when he was sacked by Albert as part of what was touted as a clean-up in Monaco. He acted after allegations of financial impropriety linked to the palace were published on Les Dossiers du Rocher, a website that had been set up anonymously.

Albert initially brushed aside the claims but responded when they were taken up by French television. The prince sacked Laurent Anselmi, his chief of staff, and publicly distanced himself from Thierry Lacoste, his lawyer and childhood friend. The royal family subsequently said it had filed a criminal lawsuit after an audit revealed irregularities in the palace accounts.

Palmero, who denies wrongdoing, has taken legal action himself, claiming wrongful dismissal and arguing that he is the victim of harassment.

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#Monaco royal family #prince albert #princess charlene #the escándalo I need #this is crazy #but low-key not surprising

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royalchildreneurope · 1 month

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Prince Albert II of Monaco, Princess Charlène of Monaco, Prince Jacques of Monaco and Princess Gabriella of Monaco, Princess Caroline of Hanover, Andrea Casiraghi, Tatiana Santo Domingo, Charlotte Casiraghi, Raphaël Elmaleh, Balthazar Rassam, Pierre Casiraghi, Beatrice Borromeo, Stefano Casiraghi, Francesco Casiraghi, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Ben-Sylvester Strautmann, Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, Louis Ducruet, Marie Ducruet and Pauline Ducruet pose for an official portrait as they attend Prince Albert II of Monaco's 66th birthday celebrations, at The Prince's Palace in Monaco -March 14th 2024.

📷 : Palais Princier de Monaco.

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gatabella · 8 months

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Princess Grace and her kids Princess Caroline, Prince Albert and Princess Stéphanie

“It doesn’t seem like 40 years. Many times during a day, a week, not only do I find myself thinking of her, but numbers of people still recall her to me. They remember her and that’s a great tribute to her and who she was — to what an exceptional human being she was.”

-Prince Albert of Monaco

#grace kelly #princess grace #prince albert #quote #reading #book #books

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postcard-from-the-past · 7 months

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Princess Stéphanie Clotilde Louise Herminie Marie Charlotte of Belgium, Crown Princess of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, then Princess Elemér Lónyay de Nagy-Lónya

Belgian vintage postcard

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josefavomjaaga · 8 months

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Thanks for answering. Just doing some quick looking into it myself beyond what you mentioned in your answer. In the French Wikipedia article it mentions that Napoleon Bonaparte learned of her existence in 1802 when he overheard a conversion about her and then brought her to Paris and there was some jealously from the Empress and her daughter since the Emperor became very fond of her (although jealousy among the Emperor's relations both blood and in-laws seems pretty par for the course).

Also Eugène de Beauharnais's eldest daughter marries Crown Prince of Sweden (only son of former French Marshal Bernadotte and Napoleon Bonaparte's dejected fiancée Désirée Clary) while her own eldest daughter marries deposed Swedish Crown Prince in exile in Vienna.

Also Queen Sophie of the Netherlands mentioning her death in her correspondence google<dot>com/books/edition/A_Stranger_in_The_Hague/rp29cF15SpAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Duchess%20Hamilton%20inauthor%3AQueen%20Sophie%20(consort%20of%20William%20III%2C%20King%20of%20the%20Netherlands)&pg=PA206&printsec=frontcover

First of all: thank you so much! I feel like poor Stéphanie really is overlooked, because she did not stay at Napoleon's court for long. Basically, she gets noticed by the First Consul (or possibly rather by Josephine), sent to Madame Campan's bording school (because where else) and only truly shows up at court in 1805/6, in order to be married off to poor Karl von Baden, who had just lost his former fiancée Auguste von Bayern to a certain Eugène de Beauharnais (Stéphanie's cousin).

Which is a story in itself, of course.

I am not sure the cousins were particularly close. In a letter to Eugène Josephine refers to Stéphanie as "la petite Beauharnais", the little Beauharnais, which seems a bit odd given the close family relations. But it also could just be a nickname and need not mean much.

The marriage to Karl von Baden - as the story goes - started out exceptionally bad. By most accounts, Karl was not a friendly character in the first place, and he was still hurt about having been denied a good marriage (to a princess from an old regime princely family) and now being ... strongly invited to conduct a - in his eyes - bad one with some lower nobility girl who had merely been adopted by the French emperor. (According to Bavarian crown prince Ludwig, Karl shortly before his marriage accused Ludwig of not having done enough to strengthen his sister's resolve and to avoid Auguste's marriage to Eugène de Beauharnais.)

Stéphanie, as to her, was not yet 17 years old and obviously not enchanted to get married to this strange German. When Karl showed up in Paris for the wedding, he still wore his hair braided in the Prussian fashion, much to the horror of his Parisian teen bride, who declared this hairstyle, and with it the bridegroom as a whole, inacceptable. When Karl went to see a barber and returned fashionably coiffed à la Titus - Stéphanie started crying and declared he was even uglier now.

As I said, not a good start. And it did not get much better because - as the story goes - during her wedding night Stéphanie locked herself up in the bedroom with some friends from bording school, while Karl was left outside, passing the night on a chair in front of the bedroom door... allegedly.

While much of this may be exaggeration and court gossip, there's little doubt that the marriage was not a happy one. During the Prussian campaign in 1806 Napoleon even felt the need to write to the marshal in whose corps Karl von Baden was to serve, in order to make sure that Karl would not get mocked openly by the soldiers. And I remember one letter to Berthier in which Napoleon wrote something to the effect of "Okay, if he absolutely wants to come, let him join the army. But I really wish he'd go home and make a baby with his wife!"

Poor Stéphanie must have felt quite alone in that rather strange Baden family she had married into. The person actually calling the shots in Karlsruhe was Amalie von Baden, Karl's mother (and also the mother of Queen Friederike of Sweden, Queen Karoline of Bavaria and the Tsarina Elisabeth of Russia). Karl's grandfather, Grand Duke Karl sen., was old and increasingly senile, but he had a young second wife in what was called a "left-hand marriage", and this lady was in a permanent feud with Amalie. Lastly, the old grand duke also had another son, a known intriguer and womanizer.

Happy family times. Especially as all these illustrious personalities immediately united in their dislike of that second class French princess they had been forced to accept into their family.

And it seems Stéphanie, after trying to adapt to her new circumstances, rebelled quite a bit. Enough to earn her some stern rebukes from her imperial adoptive father.

It took until 1809 for the situation to truly change, until Josephine had to leave court and the Beauharnais and their foreign relations thus lost their closest link to the French court. Napoleon's marriage to an Austrian may have been felt as a threat by all of the smaller Rhinebund states, who had received French support mostly in order to serve as a buffer against Austria, and who now suddenly found themselves sandwiched between two - always hungry - super powers. Their princely families immediately closed ranks, and this included Stéphanie.

Or maybe Karl had really started to grow fond of his wife. Their first daughter was born in 1811. And after Napoleon's fall, Karl refused to try and get a divorce. (It did not keep him from heaving wild orgies during his stay at the Vienna Congress though.)

Stéphanie did end her life in Baden, where she was very well-liked by the population.

#napoleon's family #stéphanie de beauharnais #belated answer #ask

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