King’s Day 2020 will be more different than ever. The last time the royal visit on that day (Queen’s Day at the time) was cancelled was in 2001, when because of foot-and-mouth disease the royals couldn’t visit Hoogeveen and Meppel. It was possible to celebrate in some other parts of the country, but the royals […]
Photo & Copyright: Kongehuset/Per Morten Abrahamsen
It seems to be the new way to celebrate royal birthdays at the moment. More than 100.000 Danes sang for their Queen, Margrethe II, on 16 April, and she watched it herself, as it was all shown live on national TV. At the end she shortly appeared in the doorway of the Fredensborg Palace and […]
If everything had gone according to plan I would have travelled to Copenhagen, Denmark, on 12 April to celebrate the 80th birthday of Queen Margrethe II, and return home on 17 April. Unfortunately there are no celebrations, everything has been cancelled, which is totally understandable. A Dane started a great initiative: “Danmark synger for dronningen” […]
Photo & Copyright: Kongehuset/Per Morten Abrahamsen
Because of the present circumstances there is no congratulatory book at Det Gule Palæ. However the Danish Royal House has set up a congratulations register on the royal website, where it is possible to send personal good wishes to Queen Margrethe II of Denmark on the occasion of her 80th birthday. The register opened this […]
Prambanan Temple, Yogyakarta. Photo from Pixabay.
On 9 March 2020 King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands arrived in Indonesia for a state visit, that will end on 13 March 2020. Because of the colonial past – Indonesia was once a Dutch colony – the visit will be a sensitive one with some tensions. That wasn’t different in 1995 when […]
@ Casa de S.M. el Rey / Estela de Castro
After the Dutch royals, also the Spanish royals came with new official photos. For the first time in many years there were new official portraits of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, and for the first time also of Leonor, Princess of Asturias, and Infanta Sofia. In the past ten years or so, the Casa […]
St James's Palace, London
The wedding of HRH Princess Beatrice of York and Mr. Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi will take place on Friday 29 May 2020. The couple became engaged in Italy in September 2019. Her Majesty The Queen has kindly given permission for the ceremony to take place at The Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace. The ceremony will be […]
Photo & Copyright: RVD/Martijn Beekman
After the New Year’s reception on 14 January 2020 the Dutch royals posed for official photos inside the Royal Palace in Amsterdam. Photographer Martijn Beekman took pictures of King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima, Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and her husband Prof. mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven. If you wonder why there is no picture of Princess […]
Often you wished you could come closer to a bride. Back in July 2007 it wasn’t too difficult, but I almost felt too close. I had travelled to Burgsteinfurt, Germany, for the wedding of Hereditary Prince Carl Ferdinand zu Bentheim und Steinfurt and Elna-Margret Rinn on 21 July 2007. When you were early you could […]
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2019 saw a new Empress in Japan, unexpectedly a new Queen in Thailand and in the same country also for a short while a royal concubine. Who are these three women? Empress Masako of Japan Born: Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, on 9 December 1963 as the eldest daughter of Hisashi Owada and Yumiko Egashira. Siblings: […]
