Much less visitors for NettyRoyal in 2023, but I can’t say I have been very active myself. Here is the top 10 of posts in 2023:
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Instagram Top Nine 2023
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 […]
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Christian Fürst zu Bentheim und Steinfurt (1923-2023)
His 100th birthday on 9 December 2023 was celebrated with his family. Christian Fürst zu Bentheim und Steinfurt, according to a spokesperson for the family, was doing quite well for his advanced age. Also the media paid attention to this special day. However, only three days later, on 12 December 2023, one of the eldest […]
Season’s Greetings
I am wishing you all: Merry Christmas& Happy & Royal 2024 It has been an interesting year with my 50th birthday, the 25th wedding anniversary of NettyRoyal and a royal wedding in Portugal. I continue working as a freelance royalty journalist for the Danish press agency dana press photo a/s. Also two of my articles […]
A belated Portuguese wedding report
My wedding photos have been in a Flickr album for ages already, and I posted the link on social media, but not yet on my blog. As you might know, I nearly spent a week in and around Lisbon, Portugal, early October 2023. My 50th birthday two weeks earlier, and the royal wedding of Dona […]
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I am finally on … Threads
With Twitter slowly dying (I refuse calling the platform X), because of a lot of decisions by Elon Musk, I am among the many people, that try to find another way of keeping in touch with royalty watchers and fellow journalists. Mastodon didn’t really work for me, BlueSky is a bit better and I found […]
Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie of Luxembourg
Alexander & Natacha – The wedding guests
Thanks to J. from Royalduo for the photos Archduke Alexander of Austria married his fiancée Natacha Roumiantzoff (Countess Natacha Roumiantzeff-Pachkevitch) at the église Saint-Pierre in Beloeil, Belgium, on 30 September 2023.
Alexander & Natacha – A Countess becomes an Archduchess
Thanks to J. from Royalduo for the photos Just a few weeks after the death of his grandmother, Archduchess Yolande of Austria († 13 September 2023), Archduke Alexander of Austria married his fiancée Natacha Roumiantzoff. The wedding was initially to take place in Montreux, Switzerland. The location however was changed to the église Saint-Pierre in […]
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Karina and Alexis – A royal love match
Prince Alexis Andronikof has married Princess Karina Bagration-Moukhransky civilly in Vannes, France, on 7 October 2023. She has taken the name of Princess Karina Bagration-Andronikof. The religious marriage has been postponed, until the mother of Karina will be able to attend. Karina Kharysova was born in Kiev, Ukraine, on 25 January 1978 as only child […]
Prince Stephan and Princess Maria zur Lippe with children
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Extra: the wedding gala of Ludwig and Helene
I received a few lovely photos of guests arriving for the wedding banquet/ball of Hereditary Prince Ludwig zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg and Helene von Pezold on 9 September 2023 at Kreuzwertheim, Germany.