Trip to Monaco

A few days ago i made a Trip over the Weekend to Nice and Monaco. Due to much traffic we arrvied later then planned only on Saturday around noon in setead of the morning so the Trip to Monaco was postponed from Saturday afternoon to Sunday mornining. This meant that i could not go into the Kathedral because there was Mess. I then visited the Grande Appartements at the Palace and walked through the beautiful Town and the Jardins St. Martin.

The Flagg waving at one of the Towers of the Palace

Memorial for the Silver Jubilee of
HSH Prince Albert I. in 1914

Statue of the monk François Grimaldi

from left: The Palais de Justice, the Oceanographic Museum, the Cathedral

Statue of HSH Prince Albert I. in
the Jardins St. Martin

Wallerstein Castle

On my Way back home from the Wedding of Prince Karl-Emich zu Leiningen and Countess Isabelle von und zu Egloffstein i made a stop at Wallerstein where the Princely Family of Oettingen-Wallerstein is located. As the Family lives in it it can not be visited.

Residence Castle Oettingen

On Saturday afternoon after having been at Pappenheim for the Wedding of Prince Karl-Emich zu Leiningen and Countess Isabelle von und zu Egloffstein i travelled to Pappenheim where i visted the Residence Castle. The Castle between 1679 and 1687 for the Fürsten zu Oettingen-Spielberg, and it still belongs to the Family. In the 1950's the Castle was opened for the public and there are guided Tours where one can see the Former living rooms of the Family among them the Golden Room, the Red Room and the Golden Hall. In the Festival Hall are Concerts every Summer.

Princely Wedding at Pappenheim

On 07. June 2008 the religious Wedding of Prince Karl-Emich zu Leiningen and Countess Isabelle von und zu Egloffsgtein took place at Pappenheim. The couple had already married civil on 08. Septemberg 2007 at Amorbach. For the groom it is already the third marriage after his first marriage to Princess Margarita zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen, who died in an car-crash in 1989, and his second marriage to Gabriele Thyssen who ended in divorce in 1998. The protestant Service took place at the Klosterkirche at Pappenheim which is in the posession of the brides Family. The Family walked from the Old Castle along a long green carpet to the Church. First in the procession was the groom accompanied by his mother-in-law, Countess Iniga von und zu Egloffstein, followed by the grooms 2 daughters and the siblings of the bride. From the grooms Family nobody was present, aprt from his 2 daughter
Short later arrived the bride accompanied by her father, Count Albrecht von und zu Egloffstein.
After the 1 hour Service the bridal couple followed by the Family and all the guests walked over the green carpet to the Old Castle where an reception took place.
Among the royal guest where

• Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia
• Prince Jean of Fance, Duke of Vendôme
• Prince Eudes and Princess Marie-Liesse of France, Duke and Duchess of Angoulême
• Duke Eugen and Duke Alexander of Württemberg
• Fürst Hubertus and Fürstin Alexandra Fugger von Babenhausen
• Hereditary Prince Ludwig and Hereditary Princess Elisabeth zu Löwenstein-Wertheim- Freudenberg with daughters Sophie and Amelie
• Hereditary Prince Maximilian and Hereditary Princess Marissa zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg
• Hereditary Prince Carl-Fedinand and Hereditary Princess Elna-Margret zu Bentheim und Steinfurt
• Eckbert von Bohlen und Halbach with wife Princess Désirée of Hohenzollern
• Andreas and Kira Marina von Bismarck with daughters
• Prince Maximilian and Princess Sophie zu Ysenburg und Büdingen
• Hereditary Count Franz Clemens and Hereditary Countess Stephanie zu Waldburg- Zeil-Hohenems
• Prince Albrecht of Hohenzollern
• Fürst Karl and Fürstin Katharina of Wrede with daughter-in-law Katalin
• Count Matthias and Countess Christiane zu Castell-Rüdenhausen
• Prince Johannes zu Hohenlohe-Jagstberg.

Arrival of the groom, Prince Karl.Emich zu Leiningen and
his mother-in-law, Countess Ingia von und zu Egloffstein

first picture: Princess Theresa and Princess Cecilie zu Leiningen the groom's daughters

Arrival of the bride, Countess Isabelle von und zu Egloffstein

together with her father, Count Albrecht

Prince Eudes and Princess Marie-Liesse of France, Duke and Duchess of Angoulême

Count Andreas and Countess Isa of Hardenberg

Hereditary Count Franz-Clemens and Hereditary
Countess Stephanie of Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems

Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia

Hereditary Prine Maximilian and Hereditary
Princess Marissa zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg

Count Ludwig and Countess Stephanie of
Waldburg zu Wolfegg and Waldsee

Fürst Hubertus and Fürstin Alexandra Fugger of
Babenhausen, in the first picture together with
Prince Albrecht of Hohenzollern

Hereditary Prince Carl-Ferdinand and Hereditary
Princess Elna-Margret zu Bentheim and Steinfurt

Hereditary Prince Ludwig and Hereditary Princess
Elisabeth zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg

Eckbert von Bohlen und Halbach and his wife
Princess Désirée of Hohenzollern