Wedding Roundup: Ernst-August and Ekaterina of Hanover

All the features about the wedding of Hereditary Prince Ernst-August of Hanover and Ekaterina Malysheva, right here:



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Why You Shouldn't Bother Watching "Sisi", the New TV Series By RTL

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Hi there! I watched a series today that was so bad it made be write the first blog post in one and a half years. Will I write more again in the future? I don't know, I guess we'll see. In the meantime, follow all my latest castle adventures over on Instagram . See you there! Empress Elisabeth of Austria, the immortal Sisi, has inspired the imagination of the people for more than a century now. Her life, her love, her tragedies, her death. Adored, free spirited and one of the original royal IT girls. A face that could launch a thousands ships, well, bring peace to two feuding nations by simply being her charming self. A woman that, 120 years after her death, can still draw crowds and be the foundation stone of what seems like half the tourist industry of several regions. (Okay, that might have been slightly exaggerated but have you ever been to Vienna and seen the souvenir shops?) So it's not too surprising that time and time again, cinema and TV productions have tried to ca...
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CastleDrama: Magnificent Century (Season 1)

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To say that I have been pretty obsessed with "Magnificent Century" as of late may just be the understatement of the century. The Turkish period drama Muhteşem Yüzyıl is one seriously addictive tv series - and that comes from a person who is a serial binge watcher. The show's first season compromising of 48 episodes is available on Netflix with English subtitles and yours truly cannot wait for the additional three seasons to be added.  The plot of "Magnificent Century" is a simple one yet full of twists and turns. The show tells the story of Sultan Süleyman, who ruled to Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566 and is is known in Turkey as the Lawmaker, renowned for his innovative legal code, for the opulence of his court and for expanding the Ottoman Empire from the Persian Gulf to Transylvania. It particularly focuses on his relationship with Hürrem Sultan (or Roxelana as she is mostly known in the Western world), the Christian slave girl from modern-day Ukrai...
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Vienna Day 5: Artstetten, Melk, and Other Bits

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The fifth day of my Vienna vacation actually led me out of Vienna as I headed west to Schloss Artstetten , home of the Hohenberg family, and Melk Abbey, as well as south to... well, simply read on. And keeping with last night's theme - also the reason why I'm only posting this morning while recovering from the madness that is the Eurovision Song Contest - I'll give out points. So, turns out Austrian traffic jams aren't any more fun than German - or any country's, I suppose - traffic jams. It cost us about one and a half hours. Zero points. And the weather wasn't really great either, very foggy and rain throughout the whole day. At least it wasn't as windy as on some of the days before. Two points. Still, we tried to make the best of it and had a fun day discovering all kinds of different sights. First off was Schloss Artstetten , most famously the home of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, whose murder in Sarajevo in 1914 sparked World...
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