Current and future exhibitions
Exhibitions, Travel

Current and future exhibitions

Last updated: 1 March 2024 This list contains temporarily noble and royal exhibitions all over the world. If you hear about an exhibition that is not yet listed, let me know. Australia 18 November 2023 – 19 May 2024The Australian Museum, SydneyRamses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs Austria 18 October 2023 – […]

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Royal Houses section updated
Blog, Blog & Me

Royal Houses section updated

It had been a while since I updated the Royal Houses section. With the latest changes of throne in Denmark and Malaysia, it was about time to do something about it. It turned out most pages hadn’t been updated since 2020. I only didn’t have a look at the links at the bottom. Lately I […]

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Nine x King Frederik – My article in Royalty Amalienborg
About me, Blog & Me

Nine x King Frederik – My article in Royalty

The Dutch magazine Royalty, issue 1/2024, of course paid a lot of attention to the succession of the throne in Denmark. I wrote an article for it with the title “Negen x Koning Frederik” (Nine x King Frederik), which was a portrait of the previous kings of Denmark with the name Frederik. I previously wrote […]

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The first Nassaus in the Netherlands © Pixabay / manfredrichter
History, Miscellaneous

The first Nassaus in the Netherlands

The new Dutch TV series and accompanying book “Het verhaal van Nederland: Oranje Nassau. A new history of the Netherlands and the royal house” by Dorine Hermans and Marchien den Hertog, do mention how the Nassaus eventually ended up in the Netherlands. However, the link between Count Engelbrecht I of Nassau and Willem (William) “the […]

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Book review: Het verhaal van Nederland © NTR
Books & Magazines, Media & Co

Book review: Het verhaal van Nederland

Vanaf woensdag 31 januari 2024, 20.30 uur toont de Nederlandse tv-zender NPO 1 een nieuwe serie over de geschiedenis van het Huis Oranje-Nassau. De achtdelige serie heet: “Het verhaal van Nederland: Oranje Nassau. Een nieuwe geschiedenis van Nederland en het koningshuis”. Het bijbehorende boek, geschreven door Dorine Hermans en Marchien den Hertog, landde eerder al […]

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Abdicating: reasons and advantages © Kongehuset / Keld Navntoft
History, Miscellaneous

Abdicating: reasons and advantages

For a long time, monarchs tended to sit on their thrones until the day they died, and many regarded it as a failure to quit the throne. The heirs were handed over more power if necessary. With the abdication of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, another country has joined the growing list of monarchies, where […]

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No more reigning Queens
History, Miscellaneous

No more reigning Queens

I must say that I was intrigued when reading that, after the abdication of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark on 14 January 2024, the world doesn’t have a single reigning queen anymore. There are several Crown Princesses in Europe, but there is not a single woman anymore sitting on a real throne, which is really […]

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Watch the Danish succession of the throne live Photo: Kongehuset/Per Morten Abrahamsen
News, Other News

Watch the Danish succession of the throne live

The Danish tv-channel DR is broadcasting the abdication of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and the proclamation of King Frederik X of Denmark on 14 January 2024 live from Copenhagen all day here. Also available abroad. In Austria ORF2 broadcasts, partly from Copenhagen, from 1.20pm to 3.55pm. The German channel ZDF only starts their broadcast […]

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The nine predecessors of King Frederik X © Netty Leistra
History, Miscellaneous

The nine predecessors of King Frederik X

After 52 years, Denmark has a king again: King Frederik X. The regnal number X means that Frederik has nine predecessors. Who are they? Denmark is one of the oldest monarchies in the world. The first monarch, not being legendary, was Gorm the Old, who died around 958. After kings with names as Harald, Svend, […]

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