Changes at NettyRoyal
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Changes at NettyRoyal

You might have noticed, the “old” website and blog once again moved to https://nettyroyalblog.nl/ a few weeks ago. This weekend I finished the new site at https://nettyroyal.nl/, focussing on my work as a royal correspondent. There are also a few more serious and extensive articles I wrote in recent years already. These will disappear from […]

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Season’s Greetings 2024
Blog, Blog & Me

Season’s Greetings 2024

In 2024, I continued working as a freelance royalty journalist for the Danish press agency dana press photo a/s. To my delight, more of my articles were published in the Dutch magazines Royalty and De Oranjes. On 12 December 2024 I have registered NettyRoyal at the Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands. In the coming […]

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The demise of social media
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The demise of social media

For a royalty watcher or journalist, social media, especially Twitter – nowadays X – were a source of information for many years. It was the place where you could find daily royal news from around the world, often even only a few minutes after something was announced. Nowadays, that’s a lot less and that’s actually […]

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Rain and sun for Xenia and Guy
Marriages, News

Rain and sun for Xenia and Guy

The St. Jakobus-Kirche in Dülmen-Karthaus, Germany, was the venue Princess Xenia von Croÿ and Guy delle Piane had chosen for their wedding on Saturday, 28 September 2024. The day started with sun, but shortly before the bride was to arrive it started raining. Luckily, then it became dry again, although rain was never far away. […]

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Imperial wedding in Bonn
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Imperial wedding in Bonn

It is already a while ago this wedding took place, but I hope you enjoy the report and photos by two of my friends (including Stefan from Royal Travel Events) as much as I do. On 27 July 2024 Archduke Pál of Austria married Antonia Lütz at the Bonner Münster in Bonn, Germany. The civil […]

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Máxima at Royal Wagenborg and DelfSail
News, Royal Visits

Máxima at Royal Wagenborg and DelfSail

After landing in the Netherlands, straight out of New York, USA, on Friday, 14 June 2024, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands had no time to go home. She continued her travel to the northeast of her own country for the christening of the Easymax motor vessels ‘Máxima’ and ‘Alexia’ at Royal Wagenborg in Delfzijl. More […]

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Lots of luck for Katharina & Clemens
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Lots of luck for Katharina & Clemens

If rain on your wedding day means good luck and children, Count Clemens von Moÿ de Sons and Duchess Katharina von Oldenburg certainly will have all of that. Their wedding on Saturday, 13 July 2024, was not the most sunny and dry day of the year, but there was enough rain. The couple got married […]

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Dutch royals attend a wedding in Hohenems
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Dutch royals attend a wedding in Hohenems

Not surprisingly the wedding of Count Caspar von Matuschka and Countess Leonie von Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems attracted some attention. Not at least because her very royal godfather turned up with his wife and eldest daughter. Caspar and Leonie got married on Saturday, 22 June 2024

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Stanislaus & Isabella – Bavarian wedding in Austria
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Stanislaus & Isabella – Bavarian wedding in Austria

So much to do right now that I totally forgot to post these wedding pictures. As usually copyrighted and taken by a friend of mine. On Saturday, 25 May 2024, the Benedictine Monastery Stift St. Peter in Salzburg, Austria, experienced a royal wedding, not an Austrian one, but a Bavarian one. Prince Stanislaus of Bavaria […]

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Finally married! Alexander and Gabriella in Augsburg
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Finally married! Alexander and Gabriella in Augsburg

As usual: photos copyrighted and taken by a friend of mine. On 18 May 2024 Hereditary Count Alexander Fugger von Babenhausen and Gabriella Beatriz Stoudemire got married at the St. Moritz Church in a very sunny Augsburg, Germany, the city, where the Fugger family is originally from. Gilles Mendel designed the wedding gown. The wedding […]

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