The first issue 2007 contents: Mecklenburg-Schwerin; a family album by Cahrlotte Zeepvat/My father and his family by Princess Olga Romanoff/An eccentric couple; Prince August & Princess Teresia of Sweden and Norway by Trond Norén Isaksen/The English Dacha at Tsarskoe Selo by Coryne Hall/A golden bridge between east and west; Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and the 1903 Delhi Durbar by Janet Ashton/Balchic; The Queen of Romania's romantic hideaway by Marion Wynn/A tour of Claremont by Charlotte Zeepvat/Tombs, graves and monuments 5: a death in captivity by Charlotte Zeepvat/Royal photographers; W&D Downey by Charlotte Zeepvat/Book reviews