Belgian royals, like the British, dropped the name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha after first world war A century after emulating the British royals by removing vestiges of its German lineage in the wake of the ...

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"The due homage will be paid to a head of state... who, despite contradictory interpretations of certain moments of his reign, gave much to... the modernisation of our country," said his grandson, the ...

The Russian Embassy in Bulgaria and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’s personal website did not announce the visit. [Shutterstock/Anton Chalakov] Former Bulgarian tsar and prime minister from 2001 to 2005, Simeon II ...

King Charles visited Berlin on his first state visit this week, where he pledged to “strengthen the connections between the UK and Germany. At a state banquet hosted by German President Frank-Walter ...

The prime minister, formerly known as Simeon II, was just six when his father King Boris III died suddenly in 1943. A year later, a Soviet-led coup triggered theexecution of the three-member regency, ...

The former king of Bulgaria Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who lives in his Vrana castle in the outskirts of Sofia and has avoided taking political sides for years, said on Monday that it was “time for ...

One hundred years ago, King George V changed the name of the British royal family from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the English Windsor On 17 July 1917 King George V issued a proclamation ...

On August 26, 1819, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was born near Coburg, Germany. In 1840, when Albert was just 20 years old, he married Queen Victoria, who reigned over the United Kingdom and ...

At the weekend Hubertus Michael, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, wed his American love Kelly Rondestvedt in gothic Morizkirche church in the Bavarian town of Coburg. Investment banker ...