Hereditary Prince Carl Ferdinand zu Bentheim und Steinfurt married Elna-Margret Rinn religiously at Burgsteinfurt on 21 July 2007.
The civil wedding of Guillaume & Stéphanie
Last modified: 22 December 2012 Luxembourg-City, Friday, 19 October 2012 The wedding programme 11.00 am – Reception at the Grand Théâtre of Luxembourg-City, organised by the Luxembourg government 3.30 pm – Civil wedding at the Town Hall of Luxembourg-City 8.00 pm – Galadinner at the Grand-Ducal Palace & Cercle Cité in Luxembourg-City Address of the […]
Prinsjesdag in the Netherlands 1999
The Hague, 21 September 1999 Prinsjesdag (Princes’s Day) is a centuries-old tradition and the only tradition with pomp and circumstance left in the Netherlands. Since 1904 it is held in the Ridderzaal (Hall of Knights) in The Hague. Since a long time, the day is on the third Tuesday of September. It marks the beginning […]
Photo & Copyright: Henriëtte E.
The religious wedding of Guillaume & Stéphanie
Last modified: 22 December 2012 Luxembourg-City, 20 October 2012 The wedding programme The wedding venues Cathedral The late Gothic Cathédrale Notre-Dame (Cathedral of Our Lady of Consolation) was originally built as a Jesuit church. The first stone was laid in 1613. The work was completed in 1621. In 1778 the church was established as a […]
Official royal websites
A modern reigning royal house nowadays has its own website. In the United Kingdom there is not only a general website for all members of the royal family, see The British Monarchy, there also is a separate website for the heir to the throne, The Prince of Wales. That website was completely redesigned and introduced […]
Queen Beatrix visits Sneek
Last Thursday I saw Queen Beatrix in Sneek, a nice little town in the north of the Netherlands where I was born and raised. Only the day before, me and my mother had agreed to do some shopping in Sneek. Knowing the Queen would come, I took the first cheaper train out of town (Groningen) […]
Sanders/Oldenburg wedding in Hamburg
On Saturday, 13 October 2012, Stephan Sanders from the Netherlands married Duchess Rixa von Oldenburg at the beautiful old church of Hamburg-Nienstedten. The weather forecast was bad, but it turned out to be dry and (a bit too) sunny. For my photos, see:
The Luxembourg wedding book
The Luxembourg publishing House Éditions Saint-Paul came with a book about the wedding of Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie of Luxembourg. The book was written by French writer and royalty expert Stéphane Bern and published in French and in German. 112 Pages about the bride and groom, with exclusive photos and […]
Copyright: The Swedish Royal Court/Ewa-Marie Rundquist
Surprise! Princess Madeleine has become engaged
Although of course we all knew that Princess Madeleine of Sweden was happy with her boyfriend Christopher O’Neill, and despite some minor rumours, the announcement of their engagement on Thursday morning, 25 October 2012, came quite unexpectedly. Early in the morning, the Swedish newspapers Expressen and Aftonbladet wrote that the couple had become engaged. Bertil […]
Royal wedding in Luxembourg: a small report
It was a long and interesting weekend in Luxembourg. As a royalty journalist I of course had to work, even when the hotel internet wasn’t always working well. Not only do I have a slow laptop, hotel internet, as lots of you will know, isn’t exactly very quick in the normal hotels. In between I […]