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Vanaf woensdag 31 januari 2024, 20.30 uur toont de Nederlandse tv-zender NPO 1 een nieuwe serie over de geschiedenis van het Huis Oranje-Nassau. De achtdelige serie heet: “Het verhaal van Nederland: Oranje Nassau. Een nieuwe geschiedenis van Nederland en het koningshuis”. Het bijbehorende boek, geschreven door Dorine Hermans en Marchien den Hertog, landde eerder al […]
At the end of a year it is always fun to see what you achieved. There are apps that let you see which nine Instagram posts were doing best. NettyRoyal received 4k likes in 2023 to 88 posts, which is an average of 45 likes per post. That’s 6% of 768 followers liking my posts […]
Much less visitors for NettyRoyal in 2022 than in 2021. I suppose it is either because I posted less regularly, or people spent much less time online. Here is the (somewhat surprising) top 10 of posts in 2022: Instagram statistics for 2022: There are so many recent Christmas cards among the best liked posts, that […]
There is a brand new British detective series written by TP Fielden, with a royal theme. As it seldom happens that two of my passions royalty and crime come together, I decided I must have this book as soon as I read about it. Britain is at war – but the greatest threat to the […]
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In May 2020 the book “The Habsburgs The Rise and Fall of a World Power” (can also be found as “The Habsburgs. To Rule the World”) by Martyn Rady was published. More than 400 pages of which the first 25 can be seen here. Almost at the same time, in June 2020 the Dutch version […]
Recentelijk ontving ik de Nederlandse versie van een boek, dat oorspronkelijk in het Engels werd gepubliceerd door HarperCollins Publishers Ltd in 2016 als “The Victoria Letters: The Official Companion to the ITV Victoria Series“, geschreven door Helen Rappaport, met een voorwoord door Daisy Goodwin. De Nederlandse versie “Het boek bij de tv-serie. Victoria de jonge […]
Ira surrounded by Michael Berger-Sandhofer (Sotheby's), Luigi Bonomi (agent), Nicholas Foulkes (author) and Charlie Redmayne (HarperCollins) at the book presentation. Copyright: Bizzy Arnott / HarperCollins
Years ago, when neither the Duchess of Sussex, nor the Duchess of Cambridge were dominating the royal world, and even their mother-in-law Princess Diana was still to be born, a very young European Princess caught the attention of the media worldwide. Younger royalty watchers might not know the name anymore of Princess Ira von Fürstenberg, […]
Reading children’s books? Why not? Even when you’re an adult, they can be quite fun, even if you might read it in a totally different way than most children or teenagers. When I was in London I had a quick look at Waterstones at Piccadilly to see whether they had “Royal Rebel” by Carina Axelsson. […]
As soon as I saw the trailer in October 2018 I knew I had to see “The Queen’s Corgi”, a Belgian animated adventure film releasedt his year. This children’s film is produced by the Belgian company nWave Pictures, directed by Ben Stassen and Vincent Kesteloot, and written by John R. Smith and Rob Sprackling. This […]
The Story A friendship that became a rivalry. A rivalry that became a war. “Mary Queen of Scots” explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan). Queen of France at 16 and widowed at 18, Mary defies pressure to remarry. Instead, she returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. […]
