Update 22 April – it is sold out! Do you have nothing to do on Friday 26 April 2019, you live nearby and you like good food and interesting company? At the 185-year-old Hotel Tjaarda Oranjewoud, near Heerenveen in the Netherlands, a historical four course-dinner is to take place that evening. There still seem to […]
Buckingham Palace
On 27 and 28 April 2019 the 2019 London Royal Gatherings will take place at SPINK in Bloomsbury, London. The following speakers have been confirmed: Stephen Patterson – “This Thorny Throne” – Russia, Royalty & the Romanovs Jeffrey Hyland – Government Houses and the Royal Family Colin Parrish – Frederica, Duchess of York – a […]
Books for sale
The European Royal History Journal and Van Hoogstraten for the sixth time (or was it the fifth time?) organized the conference Royal Gatherings in The Hague, The Netherlands, this year. The location was again the Park Hotel in the Molenstraat. The dates were Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 November 2018. Exactly 100 years after the […]
Paul Gilbert is organizing the Nicholas II Conference at the St. John’s Orthodox Church in Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom, on Saturday 27 October 2018. The conference marks the 150th Anniversary of the Birth and 100th Anniversary of the Death of the last Monarch of Russia, Tsar Nicholas II. Five experts from Canada, the UK and […]
Bobby Golden and me
Sorry, because September and October had been so busy I hadn’t prepared any posts for the blog. And I didn’t have time in the days before leaving for Royal Gatherings 2017 in The Hague, The Netherlands (the fifth edition already), anymore either. So you had to do without my writing for a few days. But […]
In the weekend of 4 and 5 November 2017 the fifth Royal Gatherings will be organized in the Park Hotel in The Hague, The Netherlands, by the European Royal History Journal and Booksellers Van Hoogstraten in The Hague. The list of lectures thus far: Robert Golden – British Royal photographs Kees van der Leer – […]
It was pretty clear to anyone who passed the Bookshop Van Hoogstraten in The Hague, The Netherlands, in the weekend of 8 and 9 November 2014. On the occasion of Royal Gatherings II the whole shop window was full of royal books. Normally there is a bit of everything, but because of the weekend the […]
An Oranjebeurs? I will try to explain what it is. A few times a year royal collectors in the Netherlands organize this event in various parts of the Netherlands: Buren, Wassenaar and Nijverdal. It is the place to be for collectors of royal euphemera and memorabilia: plates, cups, tins, postcards, photos, books, coins … just […]
Ever heard of the Royalty Weekend in Ticehurst in April? If you couldn’t make it, you’ll have a second chance this year. “The Royal Gatherings Conference” is being held at the Park Hotel near Noordeinde Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands, on 8 and 9 November 2014. The weekend is being organised by the well-known […]
Sticky toffee pudding
Edited: 8 March 2014 Once again a royalty weekend is being organised in Ticehurst, England. The weekend will be held on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 April 2014 at Ticehurst and Flimwell Church of England Primary School in Ticehurst. If you love meeting other crazy royalty watchers and enjoy a weekend full of lectures and […]