Month: August 2020

Marriages 2020
News, Royal News

Marriages 2020

Last modified: 1 January 2023 Engagements, marriages and divorces in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2020. * = New Engagements Date Groom-to-be Bride-to-be Place January Alex Grubb Villiers-Stuart Princess Teresa zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg January Saarvin Balasundram Princess Elisabeth zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg March Archia Akhavan-Kharazian Princess Sofia zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn April Philipp Eisl Countess Tatjana zu Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems […]

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Births 2020
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Births 2020

Last modified: 30 December 2022 Births and christenings in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2020. * = new Births Date Name Parents Place January 5 Khaalishah Mishbaahul Prince Abdul Malik Al-Bolkiah and Raabi’atul ‘Adawiyyah binti Pengiran Haji Bolkiah of Brunei Darussalam January 28 Maryam Sheikh Joaan Bin Hamad Al Thani of Qatar […]

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Deaths 2020 Pixabay
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Deaths 2020

Last modified: 1 January 2023 Deaths in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2020. * = New Date Name Age Place 6 January Count Michel Didisheim (Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg) 89 Forest, Belgium 8 January Infanta Pilar of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz 83 Clínica Ruber Internacional, Madrid, Spain 10 January Qaboos bin Said al Said, Sultan […]

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Exhibition at Amalienborg – Princess gowns
Exhibitions, Travel

Exhibition at Amalienborg – Princess gowns

While my own trip to Denmark this year didn’t happen, a royalty-friend of mine, Wills of Koningsfan.nl, visited the country early July and enjoyed the lovely palaces and exhibitions. She was so kind to send me her gorgeous pictures. She visited the Amalienborg Museum in Copenhagen just in time to enjoy the new summer exhibition […]

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Email Updates
Blog, Blog & Me

Email Updates

Someone told me she suddenly gets lots of emails with notifications of new posts on this blog. I am slowly moving my old website to this blog, and this late afternoon/evening had some time to copy stuff into new posts on the blog. As I posted them with a date in the past, I hoped […]

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Discovering Groningen – the Piloersemaborg
Castles, Travel

Discovering Groningen – the Piloersemaborg

Finally continued my tour of the Groninger borgen. After the Allersmaborg I had a look at the Piloersemaborg or Hamsterborg in the tiny village of Den Ham. Another place that was reachable by bike from Groningen. History The first time the borg is mentioned was in 1521 when it was a farm of the Jensema […]

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Royal face mask
About me, Blog & Me

Royal face mask

Something I never thought I’d have in my royal collection: a face mask. I already have a few face masks. But when I saw this one on the Twitter account of Stadtholderswives I absolutely needed one. It is made out of lycra like material, fits perfectly and looks amazing. Lucky for me and some others […]

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Prince Harry: The adventures of a royal cat (4)
About me, Blog & Me

Prince Harry: The adventures of a royal cat (4)

It has been a while since you all heard from me, unless you follow my Twitter account or Netty’s personal Facebook (for friends only she says). I am celebrating my 4th birthday today. It occured to Netty earlier that the vet might have chosen the date because it is International Cat Day. She has no […]

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Updated! Royal News July 2020 © RVD / Wesley de Wit
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Updated! Royal News July 2020

1 July To stay fit at home. In this video Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel of Sweden and their children Princess Estelle and Prince Oscar tell how. King Felipe VI of Spain and the portuguese president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa reopened the border between Spain and Portugal. It was announced on 30 June that […]

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