2020 has been an atypical year (as the Spanish media I follow keep on mentioning it). Royals have been working at home a lot, showed their offices, and outside often wore face masks, which looks awful on photos. We hardly had any nice royal events or big celebrations. National days were reduced or not celebrated […]
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Arrived on 9 January 2020: a card with photo from King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of the Belgians to thank for the card I sent them for the 20th wedding anniversary. On 15 April 2020 King Philippe of the Belgians celebrated his 60th birthday. On 16 April 2020 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark turned 80. […]
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As long as I can remember -certainly 40 years or more – I have been a member of the public library, and for a while even of the library of the university. I started reading at the age of 5 and since books have been my life. Even when I moved from Sneek to Leek, […]
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Someone told me she suddenly gets lots of emails with notifications of new posts on this blog. I am slowly moving my old website to this blog, and this late afternoon/evening had some time to copy stuff into new posts on the blog. As I posted them with a date in the past, I hoped […]
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Something I never thought I’d have in my royal collection: a face mask. I already have a few face masks. But when I saw this one on the Twitter account of Stadtholderswives I absolutely needed one. It is made out of lycra like material, fits perfectly and looks amazing. Lucky for me and some others […]
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It has been a while since you all heard from me, unless you follow my Twitter account or Netty’s personal Facebook (for friends only she says). I am celebrating my 4th birthday today. It occured to Netty earlier that the vet might have chosen the date because it is International Cat Day. She has no […]
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Unfortunately The Noordeinde Palace in The Hague won’t open its doors this year because of Covid-19. I have visited both the palace (2016) and the stables (2017) already. No visit in 2018 because of health problems, and a press visit in 2019. I had tickets for 2019, but couldn’t go because they closed the doors […]
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In the very early hours of Thursday 2 July 2020 this blog reached another milestone. Since the start of the blog in September 2012 there have been 700.000 views. Of course in the first years I didn’t really do much with the blog, so it didn’t attract a lot of visitors. But more people visit […]
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It took me most of the weekend, but my bookcases finally look better again. They’re still somewhat full unfortunately, but everything that I want to keep is inside, and no longer on the floor or on top, or … However I have taken out several piles of books that I don’t want to keep. Hopefully […]
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At the moment it seems I have little time to update the blog. Unlike many people I am working as usual. However in the past, nearly, three months the Covid-19 crisis has had its influence on my life. No fitness centre, no dancing, and if you’re still building up your physical condition after an illness, […]
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These days I see several people on my timeline that have started making jigsaw puzzles. Some even have royal ones from the Netherlands or the UK. I can’t even remember the last time I really made jigsaw puzzles. It might have been 2001 when I bought one with the engagement photo of King Willem-Alexander and […]
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As I can’t go to Copenhagen, Denmark, to celebrate the 80th birthday of Queen Margrethe II, I will prepare a tiny celebration at home. When checking my Danish flag, it turned out it was a bit dirty and dusty, so I washed it. Despite of the lockdown Danes are planning to sing and celebrate. Are […]
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Luckily I have work and as usual work at home, so my life hasn’t really changed thus far, apart from not having been able to really go out for more than two weeks now because of a cough. Of course I follow all news online, although – as I use Twitter for work – I […]
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As I am at home most of the time now, I thought it would be fun to record a small video of my house. You can’t see me, but at least hear me. The video is slightly different from the one I placed on Instagram this morning, so enjoy this much better one also! If […]
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Most of us will agree that it was probably the best royal engagement ever when on 22 February 2016 Princess Madeleine of Sweden and her daughter Princess Leonore received 12 sick children at the royal palace in Stockholm for a fairytale party organized by the “Min Stora Dag” Foundation. The patron of the organization made […]
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