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 […]
Some of you might have noticed I have been less online in the past weeks. I haven’t really updated my blog in the past week, and have been less active on social media, on the forums, etc. Unfortunately I have some serious health problems at the moment that have to be dealt with. I am […]
When busy with my blog yesterday, I suddenly noticed that my post on Sunday was actually the 400th post being published on this blog. Or at least the 400th post that is still there, as I have deleted some in recent years. I guess about half of them were written in the past year when […]
I hear you thinking! Not yet another blog design! When I moved this blog to its own domain almost a year ago my old WordPress theme for WordPress.com wasn’t available on the WordPress.org site, where WordPress sites with its own domain are hosted. I just choose one that looked nice, but since I have always […]
Penshurst Place
2017 has been an interesting royal year and at the end of a year it is always interesting to make a list of what you actually did. I have mainly followed royals behind my computer, but also paid visits to castles, palaces, museums, exhibitions and attended some other royal events. My palace and castle visits: […]
In the past year it has been a challenge to me to update my blog regularly instead of once in a while. Time to reflect and see which posts (old or new) were most popular in 2017. I slowly get more visitors, but I think I still could do much better. The concurrence of other […]
To all of you: A merry Christmas and a happy and royal 2018! Prettige Kerstdagen en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! Noflike Krystdagen en in Lokkich Nijjier Glaedelig jul og et godt nytår Frohe Weihnachten und ein glückliches Neues Jahr Hyvää Joulua ja Onnellista uutta Vuotta Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo […]
For those who don’t know: I am not only a long-time royalty watcher, but also a royalty journalist. It all started with my website in October 1998 in a time that there weren’t a lot of royal websites around yet. Fans liked it, media liked it. I liked writing, so before I knew it I […]
Yeah, you might call me old fashioned, but I’ve never really liked telephones anyway. So only now I have bought myself a smartphone. Of course I went for a rather cheap one, but from a good brand, as I really have no idea how often I am going to use it. So no, not the […]
On Saturday 14 October 2017 for the 16th (!!!) time the Royals Verzamelbeurs in Nijverdal was being held. Every year (see my report from 2014) Wilbert Slooijer and his crew do their utmost best to make it a wonderful day for sellers and buyers. If you’re not planning to buy anything, don’t go, as otherwise […]
