Halloween, All Saint’s Day, just the right time for a spooky post. Often royal palaces and castles are old. There are many stories going around about ghosts haunting these buildings, sometimes friendly, sometimes they are not. A palace without a moat is like a palace without a ghost. This is of course just a very […]
Photo & Copyright: St Helena Tourism
Some weeks ago I was in the library here in town and saw a nice looking travel book: Ron Moerenhout – Laatste boot naar Sint-Helena (Last boat to Saint Helena), about his trip to the island of Saint Helena (St Helena on most official websites of the island) late 2015. Knowing it from Emperor Napoléon, […]
Yesterday I toured half of the Netherlands to see two royalty related exhibitions. The first was in the Hermitage in Amsterdam. On Friday 27 March 2015 Prince Nicolas Romanoff and Count Alexandre Colonna-Walewski opened the exhibition “Alexander, Napoleon & Josephine. A Story of Friendship, War & Art from the Hermitage”. Another highly interesting royalty related […]
Last modified: 10 August 2014 Straubing, 26 July 2014 It was one of the bigger royal weddings of the year, the wedding of Prince François d’Orléans and Theresa von Einsiedel at the Basilika St. Jakob in Straubing, Germany, on Saturday, 26 July 2014. The groom was born on 10 February 1982 in Madrid, Spain, as […]
Last modified: 22 December 2013 Photos & Copyright: Henriëtte E. Nancy, 28 & 29 December 2012 Civil wedding, 28 December 2012 The last royal wedding of the year 2012 – as far as I know – took place in Nancy, France, on 28 and 29 December 2012. The civil wedding of His Imperial and Royal […]
Copyright: Gabi
Photo & Copyright: Cour grand-ducale / Guy Wolff Probably you’re all waiting for news about the wedding of Prince Félix of Luxembourg and Claire Lademacher. The religious wedding took place at the Sainte Marie-Madeleine basilica in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France, on 21 September 2013.. But unfortunately I have no pictures of the religious wedding. But lots of […]
