Viewing the royal palace /
Photographer Jeppe Wikström
After two editions in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, A Royal Weekend is now heading towards Stockholm, the capital of the Kingdom of Sweden. Ted Rosvall, Mårten Hougström and Netty Leistra would like to welcome you at Medborgarskolan, Hagagatan 23 A, 113 47 Stockholm, on 29 and 30 August 2026. The exact program is yet […]
As ‘A Royal Weekend in Leeuwarden’ in October 2024 was a huge success, Ted Rosvall, Bearn Bilker and I have decided to also organize ‘A Royal Weekend’ in 2025. This time the event is to take place in the Bilderberg Hotel De Keizerskroon in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, on 11 and 12 October 2025. The hotel […]
A Royal Weekend – this year in Apeldoorn from 10-12 October 2025 – is by no means the first event of this kind ever being organised. All started probably with a man called Paul Minet, who owned a bookshop in Ticehurst, East Sussex, United Kingdom. He published the magazine Royalty Digest with stories about royal […]
From Friday evening 11 October to Sunday 13 October 2024, an international conference on the history of the European Princely/Royal Houses will take place in Leeuwarden’s historic Town Hall. The meeting is in the regal ambience of the Orange Hall. The Nassau and Friesland Foundation invites you to attend this weekend as a guest! We’ll […]
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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 […]
Just like five years ago photographer Bernard Rübsamen asked me to write the texts for his new photobook: 10 Jaar Koningspaar (10 years royal couple) on the occasion of the 10th anniversary on the throne of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. The book has 240 pages full of wonderful photos by Bernard […]
There are many magazines and TV-channels that sometimes report about the royals in the world. There are however just very few specialized magazines, not surprisingly they are almost all published in monarchies. But which specialized magazines are around? Unfortunately apart from some English language magazines, most of them are only available in the country itself. […]
This year thus far has been rather hectic, with a new website to develop, another yet private project to finish, my work, knee problems and a cat that needed surgery. It thus was really a treat that I unexpectedly could join John from Adel in Nederland to a very special evening at nearby Landgoed Nienoord […]
In januari 2023 is het boek “De adel en de Nazi’s. De collaboratie van de Duitse keizerlijke familie” van de historicus en schrijver Stephan Malinowski eindelijk in het Nederlands verschenen met een voorwoord van de Nederlandse historica en professor Beatrice de Graaf. Ullstein Buchverlage bracht het boek onder de titel “Die Hohenzollern und die Nazis: […]
The funeral of former King Constantine II of Greece, who died on 10 January 2023 in Athens aged 82, can be watched here. It starts with the viewing in the morning at the Agios Eleftherios Chapel, where Greeks could say goodbye. It is followed by carrying the coffin outside to the Metropolitan Cathedral next door, […]