Last modified: 10 January 2021 1 January In his New Year’s speech, recorded on video because of Covid-19, Emperor Naruhito of Japan thanked medical staff involved in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. He also sent his condolences to people who have lost family and friends to the virus in Japan and across the world. […]
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Last modified: 1 January 2021 1 December Princess Aiko of Japan celebrated her 19th birthday. The Imperial Household agency released several photos and a video. The Princess is currently taking online classes, after entering Gakushuin University in Tokyo this spring, where she is majoring in Japanese language and literature. Aiko hopes the day will come […]
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Last modified: 12 December 2020 1 November The desktop calendar for November 2020 of the royal family of Bhutan shows a lovely picture of Gyalsey Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck and his little brother Gyalsey Ugyen Wangchuck. The two sons of the King and Queen of the country were photographed at the Dechencholing Palace in commemoration of […]
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Updated: 12 December 2020 These are strange times. Royal engagements are cancelled or postponed, including big celebrations. Weddings are likely to be postponed too, because in many countries you can not even have guests. All we can hope for is a few royal births. There thus far is a small list of royals and nobles […]
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On 20 November 2010 Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parme, Duke of Parma married Annemarie Gualthérie van Weezel religiously at the Abbaye de la Cambre/Abdij Ter Kameren at Brussels, Belgium. The couple had announced their engagement on 7 October 2009, after he had proposed to her during a picnic in the park of Palace Het […]
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The moment all children in the Netherlands yearly are waiting for: the arrival of Saint Nicholas (Sinterklaas he is usually called here). Halfway November he arrives by steamer with his many helpers. While the youngest children think he is really existing, the elder children still shout “Sinterklaas” or “Piet” and are looking forward to all […]
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Updated 8 November 2020 1 October Belgium has gained two new princesses and a new prince. The Court of Appeal in Brussels, Belgium, has ruled that King Albert II of Belgium is the biological father of Delphine Boël, and that she has the same rights and titles as her father’s children by his marriage to […]
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This summer a friend of mine was at a noble wedding and saw Fürst Otto and Fürstin Sophia zu Castell-Rüdenhausen there. She was clearly pregnant. When they got engaged and married there was an announcement on the website of the municipality of Rüdenhausen where they live, but not this time. The same friend recently informed […]
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Just over four years after their fairytale wedding in Tirana, Albania, Crown Prince Leka of the Albanians and his wife Crown Princess Elia became parents. Several weeks ago photos of them in the streets of Tirana showed up in the Albanian media, showing Crown Princess Elia with what looked like a baby bump. When inquiring […]
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Last modified: 24 October 2020 Births and christenings in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2019. * = new Births Date Name Parents Place January 2 Sloane Adelaide Prince Stephan and Princess Amanda Lobkowicz January 19 Salama Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum of Dubai and his third wife Zeynab February 1 Enrique de Jesús, […]
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Last modified: 24 October 2020 Births and christenings in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2018. * = new Births Date Name Parents Place January 22 Antonius Constantin Markus Vinzenz Arbogast Prince Georg and Princess Nathalie von der Leyen und zu Hohengeroldseck January Sheikha Dhai Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al Thani and Sheikha […]
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Last modified: 24 October 2020 Births and christenings in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2017. * = new Births Date Name Parents Place January 2 Sinan Prince Rahim Aga Khan and Princess Salwa Aga Khan London, Great Britain January 5 Zita Maria Immaculata Elisabeth Irina Hereditary Prince Alexander and Hereditary Princess Sarah […]
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Last modified: 24 October 2020 Births and christenings in reigning and non-reigning royal houses of the year 2016. * = new Births Date Name Parents Place January 16 Isabella Alexandra May Lord and Lady Frederick Windsor (Great Britain) Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, Great Britain February 1 Talal Prince Rashid bin Hassan of Jordan and […]
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Originally planning to marry on 30 May 2020 also Ferdinand Lovrek and his bride Countess Vittoria von Waldburg zu Wolfegg und Waldsee postponed their wedding because of Covid-19. The couple got engaged in August 2019. On 26 September 2020 they finally could marry, as planned in the Parish Church St. Katharina in Wolfegg, Germany. Smaller […]
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