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Post by emmeline on May 4, 2012 10:38:49 GMT -5
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Post by grimnir on May 4, 2012 11:11:16 GMT -5
Joining the ranks of Juan-Carlos... Not really a good advertisement these days. On the other hand, neither are Albert and Charlene.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2012 11:19:00 GMT -5
What kind of Brotherhood? Did they adopt Pierre yesterday to their own son?? Why is he there? Because he speaks the language? ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2012 12:20:08 GMT -5
Albert of Monaco and Charlene in Porto May 4, 2012 at 13:50 The princes couple will be enshrined this afternoon by the Port Wine Brotherhood. Princes Albert and Charlene Monaco and Pierre Casiraghi, younger son of Princess Caroline, are now in Porto. They arrived around 11:00 in private jet, the Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, thence to the Caves Ramos Pinto, on the waterfront of Vila Nova de Gaia, where he conducts a private lunch. Very elegant, Charlene proved friendly and smiling in this his third visit to our country, after an initial stay of holidays in the Alentejo coast, before marriage, and a second coming few weeks ago, the Port. The princes of Monaco and his nephew will spend some time in Porto, where they will be enthroned with the degree of Cancelário and the degree of Infanção, respectively. The ceremony held at the Palácio da Bolsa 16.00. With them will also be enthroned Frederico de Barros Nigra Polignac, son of Miguel Horta e Costa and Diana Polignac de Barros, with the rank of Knight. Remember that the Port Wine Brotherhood other elements are part of European monarchy as King Juan Carlos of Spain and Prince Felipe. translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=pt&tl=en&u=http://caras.sapo.pt/realeza/monaco/2012/05/04/alberto-e-charlene-do-monaco-no-porto&usg=ALkJrhiSN5BRLvqqyyHV-ESgKwL5aqsxaw
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2012 12:26:03 GMT -5
Polignac family, French noble house important in European history.
From the 1050s and perhaps even from 860, the first viscounts of Polignac (in the modern département of Haute-Loire) were practically independent rulers of Velay, where the Loire River rises. Their ultimate heiress, Valpurge, was married in 1349 to Guillaume III de Chalençon, whose descendants assumed the Polignac name in 1421. The actual power of the house declined as feudalism broke down, but it maintained its exalted rank in the nobility; and in the ninth generation after Guillaume of Chalençon it emerged into political prominence with Melchior (b. Oct. 11, 1661, Puy, Fr.—d. April 3, 1742, Paris), known first as the abbé, then as the cardinal de Polignac. Early experienced in diplomatic affairs between France and Rome, the Abbé was sent as King Louis XIV’s ambassador to Poland in 1693. There he procured the abortive election of François Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, as king of Poland in 1697. After a temporary disgrace, Melchior was elected to the French Academy in 1704. During the War of the Spanish Succession he played a major part in the negotiations at Gertruydenberg (1710) and at Utrecht (1712) before becoming a cardinal (creation in petto 1712, published 1713). He was exiled for participation in the Cellamare plot of 1718 but was French chargé d’affaires in Rome from 1724 to 1732 and was made archbishop of Auch in 1726. His long Latin poem, Anti-Lucretius, first printed in 1747, largely against Pierre Bayle’s philosophy, went through many editions and translations.
The cardinal’s grandnephew, Armand-Jules-François, Count de Polignac (b. 1743, Claye, Fr.—d. 1817, St. Petersburg, Russia), was married in 1767 to Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron (1749–93). She became a great favourite of Queen Marie-Antoinette, and he was created Duke de Polignac (1780). Their influence was savagely denounced in pamphlets during the Revolution.
Auguste-Jules-Armand-Marie de Polignac (b. May 14, 1780, Versailles, Fr.—d. March 2, 1847, Paris), the first duke’s second son, went from England back to France, with his elder brother Armand-Jules-Marie-Héraclitus (b. Jan. 17, 1771, Paris, Fr.—d. March 30, 1847, Saint-Germain-en-Laye), to conspire against Napoleon in 1804, but they were arrested. Released in 1813, Auguste-Jules was made a peer at the Bourbon Restoration (1815) but refused at first to take the constitutional oath because he thought it derogatory to the Holy See’s rights. For this the Holy See granted him the Roman title of prince (1820; recognized in France 1822). His ultramontanism and extreme royalism appealed to King Charles X, who appointed him minister of foreign affairs on Aug. 8, 1829, and prime minister on November 17. Responsible for the ordinances that provoked the July Revolution of 1830, he was arrested and, in December 1830, sentenced to life imprisonment. Released but banished in November 1836, he finally returned to France in 1845. The Bavarian monarchy in 1838 extended the title of prince to all his descendants; and, because his elder brother died childless, he inherited the ducal title as well just before his own death the same month. The counts de Polignac descend from the first duke’s third son, Camille-Melchior-Henri (1781–1855). One of them, Count Pierre (1895–1964), was the father of Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
Prince Edmond-Melchior (1834–1901), fifth son of Jules, was a composer. In 1893 he married Winnaretta Singer (1865–1943), who, as Princess Edmond de Polignac, was the outstanding Parisian patroness of avant-garde music in the first half of the 20th century. www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/467360/Polignac-family
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Post by axelle on May 4, 2012 13:10:53 GMT -5
Once again that strange coat....
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Post by smt on May 4, 2012 14:27:00 GMT -5
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Post by countess on May 4, 2012 15:25:24 GMT -5
GURL!!! touch up those roots, i hate that skunk look
once again the green prince stomps his carpon footprint in a private plane to the country next door. it's like me flying to dallas.....just Stupid, spoiled and wasteful
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Post by smt on May 5, 2012 7:44:59 GMT -5
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Post by paca on May 5, 2012 8:58:34 GMT -5
the coat is still yucky. Good to hear that Portugal still has enough money to throw at these morons. Hopefully EU members will consider it when they ask for money to save them....
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2012 14:24:10 GMT -5
SMT, thanks for the link. She looks like a witch posing with the master.
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Post by margarita on May 7, 2012 6:38:08 GMT -5
Thanks for posting this! 1:12 - Charlene drinks wine No, she does not pretend. She drinks. Well ... sorry sugars, but that doesn't look pregnant.
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Post by paca on May 7, 2012 8:16:43 GMT -5
funny to listen to assberts speech. As usual he is ill prepared, hence he stammers and also he doesn't seem to have a clue what he is getting into. Otherwise why would he ask if brotherhood is the same as confrerie during his speech. Isn't that what you need to find out before you accept? I wonder if Pierre was chosen due to his links with the chamber of young business people. Assbert still doesn't seem to realize that he is living right next to a huge community of Portuguese. He could have eluded to that and made a link there and thus stress the relevance of this for MC. The way they are doing it is a bit like he took his family to a wine tasting tour....
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Post by paca on May 7, 2012 8:39:21 GMT -5
btw which family member attended the flowershow this WE? Caro used to do it, but Assbert used to show up as well...
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Post by mrszinck on May 7, 2012 8:57:12 GMT -5
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Post by paca on May 7, 2012 10:06:41 GMT -5
looks like she went twice. Thx for the pics.
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Post by countess on May 7, 2012 11:02:54 GMT -5
thanks for the links, i love caro, but that green dress looks like a girl scout uniform and that BELT WTF? ??
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