Tag: Hannover

Royal Twins
History, Miscellaneous

Royal Twins

Sometimes I wonder what’s the thing with (royal) twins nowadays. So many celebrities become the parents of twins, and there are more royal twins than ever before. Almost every time a royal is pregnant, there are rumours it will be twins. Most of the time that is of course rubbish, but once in a while […]

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The Royals and Social Media
Internet, Media & Co

The Royals and Social Media

Like so many people I use the social media. I’ve got my Twitter feed open almost all day, as that is the place to be to follow people and get the royal news faster than anywhere else. Facebook is more for the personal contacts. I have a private account and an open one for my […]

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An Interesting Royal Walk Through Leeuwarden
Travel, Travel Tips

An Interesting Royal Walk Through Leeuwarden

He already held Nassau Walks and Maria Louise Walks through the centre of the city of Leeuwarden, the capital of the Province of Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands. On 5 August Bearn Bilker – a known Dutch royalty-expert – led the very first Anna van Hannover Walk, about his favourite Frisian Nassau. It […]

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Hannover Wedding – The Guests Crown Prince Pavlos and Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece with their eldest children.
Marriages, News

Hannover Wedding – The Guests

Placing photos on Flickr always costs ages, almost as much I sometimes think as resizing and cutting pictures. It keeps on making new accounts and forgetting my password. Most irritating. But anyway I’ve uploaded some of mine (and Stigs) photos of the wedding of Hereditary Prince Ernst August of Hannover and Ekaterina Malysheva on 6-8 […]

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The Old Cathedral of Brunswick
Churches & Graves, Travel

The Old Cathedral of Brunswick

The town of Braunschweig (Brunswick) is only about 45 minutes by train from Hannover. The newly rebuilt palace sounded interesting, so a friend and I decided to go there for a day trip. Also this city was heavily bombed in World War II. I can’s say my first impression of the city when leaving the […]

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Beautiful weather for Ernst August and Ekaterina
Marriages, News

Beautiful weather for Ernst August and Ekaterina

The photos are copyrighted and are not allowed to be posted or copied elsewhere without permission. I have permission to use the HAZ pictures, but for use with the wedding reports only. Despite of being in Hannover I probably saw less of Hereditary Prince Ernst August von Hannover and his bride Ekaterina Malysheva than I […]

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A Very Rainy Polterabend in Hannover Photo & Copyright: Stig
Marriages, News

A Very Rainy Polterabend in Hannover

The photos are copyrighted and it is not allowed to pass them on or copy them without permission. Whether bride and groom liked it or not, before the wedding of Hereditary Prince Ernst August of Hannover and Ekaterina Malysheva on 8 July 2017 the local newspapers had written it all. There was hardly a detail […]

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A Royal Book Problem
Books & Magazines, Media & Co

A Royal Book Problem

Somehow I am never able to travel without coming back home with books. My bookshelves are completely full and I wouldn’t know where to put new ones anymore. But then you’re hanging around somewhere and they just have the greatest books that you absolutely must read. That happened of course when I was in and […]

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