A modern reigning royal house nowadays has its own website. In the United Kingdom there is not only a general website for all members of the royal family, see The British Monarchy, there also is a separate website for the heir to the throne, The Prince of Wales. That website, see The Prince of Wales […]
Queen Beatrix takes oath of her new ministers twice
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 […]
Queen Beatrix visits Sneek
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) […]
Sanders/Oldenburg wedding in Hamburg
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:
Surprise! Princess Madeleine has become engaged
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 […]
The Luxembourg wedding book will soon be there!
The Luxembourg publishing House Éditions Saint-Paul will soon come with a book about the wedding of Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie of Luxembourg. The book is written by French writer and royalty expert Stéphane Bern and will be published in French and in German. 112 Pages about the bride and groom, […]
Royal Wedding at Luxembourg: a Small Report
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 […]
Wedding Souvenirs in Luxembourg
Two weeks to go until the big wedding in Luxembourg. I am really looking forward to see Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy getting married. And of course I hope for lots of interesting royal and noble guests. The names known so far sound quite promising. You always have to wait what […]
Restoration of noble titles in Austria?
The year 1918 saw the end of three big empires in the world: Russia, Germany and Austria. Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany fled the country and spent the rest of his life – he died in 1941 – in the Netherlands. The fate of the Russian imperial family was worse, and several family members were […]
The Urach family mourns Princess Elisabeth
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 […]