Another Covid-19 year has passed. While 2021 wasn’t as desastrous as 2020, it still wasn’t normal. For months everything seemed to be quite OK, and one could travel, there were weddings, and even a few glamorous state visits. But unfortunately in November it all started to get worse again and several events everybody was looking […]
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When checking the statistics for the blog, I noticed that I had reached another milestone yesterday, 28 October 2021: One Million Visitors!!! That are just the visitors for this blog, as I know the original website had also a lot of visitors, but I lost track as I changed providers, software and statistics on the […]
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It took me a while, and a bit of help from my host, but it finally seems to work. So if you’d like to subscribe to the NettyRoyal newsletter, fill in the form. If you don’t like it after all, you are always allowed to unsubscribe. Just for your information: as I have the free […]
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Recently I have been thinking about creating a newsletter for NettyRoyal. Oldfashioned, a friend of mine with computer knowledge commented. On the other hand one can subscribe to the newsletters of History of Royal Women and (since recently) The Court Jeweller. So there seems to be a market for it. Yesterday, with a bit of […]
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The year 2020 hasn’t been as good as we’d all hoped for. No big royal events, no big travels. There were however several births, christenings, engagements and weddings, and unfortunately also a few deaths. Most sensational things that happened in the past year must surely have been the exit of the Duke and Duchess of […]
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Last night something I have prepared for for months has finally happened. My great host Rudy moved the blog to my first URL nettyroyal.nl. The people who usually only visited my blog will hardly notice. The old blog URL is still working and from there you will be directed to the new site without even […]
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2019 personally has been a much better year for me than 2018. My health is slowly getting better, although I am not there yet. I have been able to travel again, visit places, meet friends and acquaintances. Concentrating on work is getting better, I have read books again. My cat Prince Harry slowly gets used […]
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It is one of those weeks that you really wonder whether there ever comes an end to the royal news. Of course there is royal news daily, but at the moment it is a bit much. Apart from Scandinavia – happily as also the Swedish King had his birthday this week on 30 April – […]
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One year has (almost) gone and so much has happened, personally and royally. I started the year with a new blog design, about which I am still quite happy. 2018 I soon – in January – reached a milestone by having 400 posts on my blog. I must admit that since I have deleted a […]
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Waiting already for it for a few weeks, as I noticed I could easily reach 550,000 blog visitors before the end of 2018. Today around 8pm Amsterdam time I finally reached this goal. This blog was started on 9 September 2012. Best ever views (4,318) on one day were reached on 1 October 2018 when […]
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500,000 views, 165,891 visitors, 458 posts (459 if you count this one), 3,302 subscribers. These were the statistics of this blog on 6 June 2018 at around 1pm CEST. This blog was started on 9 September 2012. Best views surprisingly were on 18 July 2013. No idea what the reason was, probably the nearing birth […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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I started my website in October 1998. At the time I was in between two studies and certainly didn’t lack any time. A friend of mine, who had recently started a website with royal genealogies, inspired me. He borrowed me a booklet about HTML and helped me starting the site up. Just imagine, I didn’t […]
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Unbelievably but true, despite of not having written on this blog regularly since its start in September 2012 until December 2016 this blog reached a special milestone yesterday, 17 February 2017. I had just let my statistics transferred in time as the blog reached an amount of 400,000 visitors since its start. I hope the […]
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