Thursday, September 25, 2008

Alexander Graf von Schönburg-Glauchau's new book

Alexander von Schönburg, a noted German journalist, is the author of a new book, Alles, was Sie schon immer über Könige wissen wollten, aber bisher nicht zu fragen wagten . Richard Kay reports on the book in his column in the Daily Mail.

The book's title translates to Everything about the Royals. But the book has not been translated into English, so it is not available in English.

http://www.amazon.de/K%C3%B6nige-wissen-wollten-bisher-fragen/dp/3871346047/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222365701&sr=8-1

Here is a link to an interview in German with the Count:

http://www.welt.de/wams_print/article2473163/Ich-bin-ein-Snob-natuerlich.html
(I am a snob, naturally.)


The book is being serialized in Bild, a German-tabloid newspaper.

http://www.bild.de/BILD/unterhaltung/royals/2008/09/18/neue-grosse-royals-serie/so-ist-es-bei-den-royals-zu-haus.html

Count Alexander is the head of the countly house of Schönburg-Glauchau. He is married to Princess Irina of Hesse, whose father, Prince Karl, is a nephew of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Irina's mother is a cousin of Princess Michael of Kent.
Alexander's has two sisters, Maya, and Gloria, Princess of Thurn und Taxis.


I repeat - the book is not available in English. It was published in German, and is being serialized in a German newspaper.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't know how much we should trust an auhtor who writes for BILD.

He even once claimed in an article that Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria was succeeded by his _son_ Karl!

http://www.bildblog.de/search/sch%C3%B6nburg/

Marlene Eilers Koenig said...

Let's read the book first. The excerpt in yesterday's paper was not salacious. Alexander used to cover politics for BZ, a Berlin paper.