No, this is actually not my cat. One of the neighbours in the back must be the owner, I have no idea whom it is. Although I really wonder how much time he spends there. He hangs around in my garden daily, sometimes even most of the day. And when I come outside, he sometimes […]
There are always new things to discover online. Sophie of All Things Royal recently posted a Google map with castles she had visited and wants to visit. How many palaces, castles, ruins, towers, bigger and smaller estates, etc. did I actually visit in my whole life? I really wouldn’t know. Quite a lot I’d say. […]
Mmm, I can’t say that the nearest supermarkets had that much British inspired food on sale. Unfortunately I had no time to go into the city or bake anything, already having been busy with the wedding of Prince Harry of Wales and Meghan Markle for days. I did see a sticky toffee cake baking box […]
A book of course needs some promotion. This morning I was invited to the studios of the provincial radio channel Radio Noord of the province of Groningen. In the program “Babette op Noord” I talked about my hobby, my work as a royalty journalist and of course the new book “5 Jaar Koningspaar” by Bernard […]
After months of working and waiting royalty photographer Bernard Rübsamen and I yesterday, 23 April 2018, could finally hold our book in our hands. Bernard and his daughter Rosalie picked me up at the railway station of Amersfoort yesterday afternoon. We bought some cake and then headed to the office of Uitgeverij Aspekt in Soesterberg. […]
With Bert van Leeuwen and Jeroen Snel
From 2008 to 2011 the Dutch broadcasting association “EO” (Evangelical Broadcasting) broadcasted the TV-program “De Grootste Royaltykenner van Nederland” (The greatest royalty expert of the Netherlands). The program was presented by Jeroen Snel and Bert van Leeuwen. Royalty watchers from the whole country took part in the six qualifying rounds. In the final the six […]
I am very pleased to let you know that in the past months I have been involved in a very interesting project. The well-known Dutch photographer Bernard Rübsamen has been working on a photobook on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the accession to the throne of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the […]
In case you wonder what happened to that Olympic sweater … It turns out my mother kept it. She actually created it herself for the Olympic Games of Calgary 1988 – also it is now 30 years old. When I went to Lillehammer in February 1994 she changed the back. Surprise is I still fit […]
Kruja Castle
I love travelling, but I haven’t really visited many countries and have never been outside Europe (if you don’t count in the Asian part of Turkey, just across the Bosporus). In some countries I’ve hardly seen anything, while in other countries I have been in a lot of places. There is still so much to […]
Time to confess! I haven’t always been a royalty watcher only. Now the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, are going on and the Dutch are doing quite well, I thought of having a look into my scrapbooks and diary of the Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer in February 1994. I have always been a […]
