Photo & Copyright: Henriëtte E.
Last modified: 22 December 2012 Luxembourg-City, 20 October 2012 The wedding programme 11.00 am – Religious wedding at the Cathedral Notre-Dame at Luxembourg-City 1.00 pm – Balcony appearance followed by a reception at the Grand-Ducal Palace in Luxembourg-City 8.20 pm – Fireworks at the Trois Glands 8.45 pm – Concert of Selah Sue and Funky […]
I am not really interested in politics, but if you follow royals, it is something you sometimes come across. In the past months there was lots of fuzz in political Netherlands about several royal themes. One of the things that was discussed intensively, was whether the taking of the oath by ministers of the new […]
Last Thursday I saw Queen Beatrix in Sneek, a nice little town in the north of the Netherlands where I was born and raised. Only the day before me and my mother had agreed to do some shopping in Sneek. Knowing the Queen would come I took the first cheaper train out of town (Groningen) […]
On 13 October 2012 Stephan Sanders from the Netherlands married Duchess Rixa von Oldenburg at the beautiful old church of Hamburg-Nienstedten. The weather forecast was bad, but it turned out to be dry and (a bit too) sunny. For my photos see:
Copyright: The Swedish Royal Court/Ewa-Marie Rundquist
Just when you think it is getting more quiet with royal news after the big wedding in Luxembourg … Although of course we all knew that Princess Madeleine of Sweden was happy with her boyfriend Christopher O’Neill, and despite of some minor rumours, the announcement of their engagement this Thursday morning came quite unexpectedly. Early […]
It was a long and interesting weekend in Luxembourg. As a royalty journalist I of course had to work, even when the hotel internet wasn’t always working. Not only do I have a slow laptop, hotel internet, as lots of you will know, isn’t exactly very quick in the normal hotels. In between I met […]
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Fürstin (Princess) Elisabeth von Urach died on 20 September 2012. She was buried next to her parents at the cemetery of Aufkirchen at the Starnberger See, in the South of Germany, on 25 September 2012. Among the funeral guests were members of the royal family of Bayern (Bavaria) and the imperial family of Austria. She […]
This Saturday, 22 September, at 11am Prinz Dominik zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (29) married Countess Olga zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (25) civilly at the registrar’s office in Rüdenhausen, Germany. Already earlier in the morning guests arrived at Rüdenhausen Castle. Most of them seem to have stayed at the castle, as only the closest family accompanied the bridal couple – […]
The Norwegian Royal Court announced that Princess Ragnhild, Mrs Lorentzen died at her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at 9.45am on 16 September 2012. She was born at the Royal Palace in Oslo, Norway, on 9 June 1930 as eldest child of King Olav V of Norway and his wife Märtha, born Princess of […]
Copyright: Bernard Rübsamen/Royal Portraits
Delft, 24 April 2004 Wedding programme 10.00: Departure by car from Noordeinde Palace. 10.30-11.00: civil marriage. The civil ceremony was conducted by the Mayor of Delft, Hein van Oorschot, in the Town Hall. It was attended by close family and friends of the bride and groom and dignitaries (some 50 guests). Departure by car from […]
