How could I forget I bought one more magazine and a royal book in Denmark. I don’t have all the Danish royal yearbooks, but I come close. Luckily a friend of mine bought “Kongehuset 2015” for me, and all I had to do was pick it up when I was in Denmark earlier this month. […]
I can’t help it, but when I am in Denmark, about the first thing I do is buying myself the Billed Bladet. THE magazine to read when you’re interested in the (Danish) royals, even when sometimes it is a bit gossipy. It is a weekly magazine with lots of reports and a TV-magazine, that I […]
I have never counted them, but I must have hundreds of books, mainly about royalty. From simple booklets, picture books, biographies, autobiographies and genealogical works. Books about endless topics like cooking, fashion, animals, special occasions, jewelry, yearbooks, families, people and of course castles and churches. As you have seen in my previous post my bookshelves […]
Not sure if anyone wants to know … reorganizing my bookshelves.
This weekend I was at the Royal Gatherings conference in The Hague, Netherlands. One of the highlights was the presentation of Eurohistory.com’s newest book: “I did it my way … Memoirs of HH Prince Andreas of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha”. We were quite honoured that Prince Andreas himself and his youngest son Prince Alexander had agreed […]
Some weeks ago I was asked by a publisher, whether I would like to write a book review about a new old book that has just been published. No problem I thought, but somehow in the past weeks I had too much books around me to read, too little time and somehow I didn’t manage […]
It was pretty clear to anyone who passed the Bookshop Van Hoogstraten in The Hague, The Netherlands, in the weekend of 8 and 9 November 2014. On the occasion of Royal Gatherings II the whole shop window was full of royal books. Normally there is a bit of everything, but because of the weekend the […]
Vorsten Magazine this year decided not to publish a royal diary for the year 2015. Luckily BacktoBasiX BV Publishing thought otherwise. They worked together with royalty watcher Sophie Ragas, who is the moderator of the Dutch royalty forum All Things Royal and the result is wonderful. If you really have a lot of appointments the […]
An Oranjebeurs? I will try to explain what it is. A few times a year royal collectors in the Netherlands organize this event in various parts of the Netherlands: Buren, Wassenaar and Nijverdal. It is the place to be for collectors of royal euphemera and memorabilia: plates, cups, tins, postcards, photos, books, coins … just […]
In the past weeks I have heard different opinions about the new film “Grace of Monaco” starring Nicole Kidman. The princely court of Monaco issued a statement on 2 May stating: that “The Prince’s Palace would like to reiterate that this feature film cannot under any circumstances be classified as a biopic” and “that this […]
