Going through the old messages on this blog, I passed this one from early February 2013: celebrating 33 years as a royalty watcher. Since, 12 years have passed, so now it is 45 years. An unbelievably long time, although I hope that the next change of throne in the Netherlands is still years away. It […]
Luckily I have work and as usual work at home, so my life hasn’t really changed thus far, apart from not having been able to really go out for more than two weeks now because of a cough. Of course I follow all news online, although – as I use Twitter for work – I […]
Netty, September 1979
Usually I wouldn’t even have thought about it, but I just noticed my post on Facebook dated seven years ago, when it was the 33rd anniversary. The date is very easy to remember. So here we are: my 40th anniversary as a royalty watcher. It was 31 January 1980, her daughter’s birthday, when Queen Juliana […]
When cleaning up all kind of clippings from newspapers and magazines I found an embroidery pattern of Fredensborg Palace in Denmark, which was published in the Danish magazine Hjemmet, probably in May 2004 as I remember having bought one around the time of the wedding of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary. I knew […]