Nicole Junkermann and her child's Vatican baptism (thinkdrafts)

submitted ago by MercurysBall2

https://www.iltempo.it/roma-capitale/2019/03/19/news/in-vaticano-il-battesimo-dell-anno-1118997/

he Holy Baptism of the small Life Ingrid Mila, daughter of Count Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti, oilman, President and CEO of the API Group (first private European oil group) and the beautiful entrepreneur, UK government technology consultant Nicole Junkermann. The couple had secretly married two years ago in a very intimate ceremony in which only witnesses were present. Godmother of baptism is SAIR Princess Sophie of Habsburg. Godfather is his brother Cosmo, born from the first marriage of Count Ferdinando with HRH Princess Mafalda D'Assia. In addition to family members, about seventy friends of the couple were invited to baptism; present some great names of the Roman and European aristocracy and personalities of international finance and the jet set. Among others HRH Kyril Saxe-Coburg, son of the King of Bulgaria, the Grand Cross bailiff of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta Urbano Riario Sforza Barberini Colonna di Sciarra, Prince Hugo Windish-Graetz, Princes Furstenberg, Rafael Del Pino, Alberto Cortina, Pietro Salini, Marina Cicogna and Marco Balich, the king of mega events at an international level. An exceptional program has been organized for the couple's guests, personally curated in every detail by Count Ferdinando. On the evening of Friday 15 at the Auditorium in via della Conciliazione they attended the exciting show "Universal Judgment - Michelangelo and the Secrets of the Sistine Chapel", followed by a lunch at the Chorus Cafè. Saturday 16 in the Basilica of San Pietro, after the rite officiated by the Most Rev. Monsignor Franco Camaldo, a private visit to the secret places of San Pietro was organized. The ceremony ended with the blessing sent by Pope Francis, who wanted to signify the happy event by giving a rosary to little Life. In the evening, guests were received in the splendid palace of the Brachetti Peretti family, which overlooks Villa Borghese, for a candlelit dinner party. In the weeks preceding the event, it seems that a real hunt for an invitation for the very exclusive ceremony was unleashed. The ceremony ended with the blessing sent by Pope Francis, who wanted to signify the happy event by giving a rosary to little Life. In the evening, guests were received in the splendid palace of the Brachetti Peretti family, which overlooks Villa Borghese, for a candlelit dinner party. In the weeks preceding the event, it seems that a real hunt for an invitation for the very exclusive ceremony was unleashed. The ceremony ended with the blessing sent by Pope Francis, who wanted to signify the happy event by giving a rosary to little Life. In the evening, guests were received in the splendid palace of the Brachetti Peretti family, which overlooks Villa Borghese, for a candlelit dinner party. In the weeks preceding the event, it seems that a real hunt for an invitation for the very exclusive ceremony was unleashed.

think- ago

LA FAMIGLIA

Sounds like a mafia company...lol.

And the Furstenbergs, of course....

MercurysBall2 ago

Husband Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti with Queen Elizabeth II back in the day https://archive.is/PSaUE

MercurysBall2 ago

  • HRH Kyril Saxe-Coburg, son of the King of Bulgaria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyril,_Prince_of_Preslav

Kyril, Prince of Preslav, Duke in Saxony[1] (born 11 July 1964), also known as Kyril of Saxe-Coburg, is the second son of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2001–5, and Margarita Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

Kyril was born in Madrid, and graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in physics in 1986 after completing a senior thesis titled "Velocity distribution of pulsars: a Monte Carlo simulation."[2]

In 2007, he worked for GLG Partners, the London-based asset management branch of Lehman Brothers.. Kyril married María del Rosario Nadal y Fuster de Puigdorfila, who goes by Rosario Nadal, on 15 September 1989. Her first cousin, Joaquín-Felipe de Puigdorfila y Esteve is the current Count of Olocau.

The religious ceremony was held at Saint Anne's Chapel, Almudaina Palace, Palma de Mallorca. The Spanish tabloids ¡Hola! and Semana covered the event and reported that there were 400 guests, though only 125 could be accommodated in the chapel for the religious ceremony.[citation needed] According to Majesty magazine at the time, King Juan Carlos, Queen Sofía, Infanta Elena, Infanta Cristina of Spain, and Felipe VI of Spain attended the occasion

On 28 October 1987, Kyril escorted fellow Princeton graduate Brooke Shields to a dinner/fashion show hosted by Christian Lacroix in New York City..He and his wife have been known to socialize with many celebrities and royalty, such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Hugh Grant, the Crown Prince Haakon Magnus and Mette Marit of Norway, as well as the Spanish royal family

Kyril and his wife separated in 2009. Since 2017 he has been in a relationship with British businesswoman Katharine Butler. He is the godfather of Prince Aristidis-Stavros of Greece and Denmark, son of Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece

MercurysBall2 ago

Godmother of baptism is SAIR Princess Sophie of Habsburg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Habsburg

Sophie Franziska Maria Germaine Habsburg also known as Archduchess Sophie of Austria[1][2][3][4][5] (born on 19 January 1959) is a French-born Italian designer and former model.

Sophie Habsburg was born in Paris on 19 January 1959, the daughter of Archduke Ferdinand Karl Max of Austria and Countess Helene of Törring-Jettenbach. She descends from the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, which reigned over Austria-Hungary until its deposition in 1918. While studying interior design in her hometown, she worked as a model.

At the age of 20, Habsburg moved to Madrid and had a successful career in modelling. She appeared in De Beers and Valentino commercials, as well as on the cover of the first issue of Vogue Spain. At the same time she also designed jewellery and worked as decorator, radio host and journalist, interviewing royals and actors. She became friends with Richard Gere after an interview and raised funds with him for the charity SOS Children's Villages

In 2010, Habsburg started designing handbags. Her bags are often worn by members of the Spanish and British royal families

On 11 February 1990 in Salzburg, Sophie Habsburg married the German-Italian Prince Mariano Hugo of Windisch-Graetz on 11 February 1990 in Salzburg.

Mariano Hugo, Prince of Windisch-Graetz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano_Hugo,_Prince_of_Windisch-Graetz

Mariano Hugo, Prince of Windisch-Graetz (German: Mariano Hugo Fürst zu Windisch-Graetz, Italian: Mariano Ugo, Principe di Windisch-Graetz; born 27 July 1955) is the current head of the Austrian[1] or Italian[2] House of Windisch-Graetz. A former ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM) to the Slovak Republic, he is currently SMOM's ambassador to Slovenia

On 19 December 1987, Pope John Paul II appointed Windisch-Graetz a Gentleman of His Holiness,[8] a role which entails meeting visiting heads of state and ambassadors and escorting them to meet the pope.[9] He is also a Knight of Honour and Devotion in Obedience of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta