Last modified: 3 May 2022 1 April In an interview with the NPO-Radio program FunX Queen Máxima of the Netherlands remembered growing up in a country with huge inflation. That’s why she studied economics and learned that “handling money well is an important part of a better life”. As a parent one should be strict […]
Royal News March 2022
Last modified: 3 April 2022 2 March Prince Oscar of Sweden celebrated his 6th birthday. As usual a photo was released. 3 March The Spanish Public Prosecutor’s Office has announced that it has dropped three separate investigations into the financial affairs of King Juan Carlos of Spain, as there is insufficient evidence and most of […]
The royal highs and lows of 2021
Life and death in the royal houses goes on, whether there is a pandemic or not. Notable are the births of August Philip Hawke Brooksbank (9 February 2021), Lucas Philip Tindall (21 March 2021), Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor (4 June 2021) and Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi (18 September 2021) in the British royal family, no less […]
Royal News May 2020
13 May Three days after his birth on 10 May 2020 Prince Charles of Luxembourg was allowed to leave the Maternité Grande-Duchesse Charlotte in Luxembourg-City with his mother Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie and his father Hereditary Grand Duchess Guillaume of Luxembourg. The family returned to Fischbach Castle. Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume also registered the birth […]
Royal News 2012
Last modified: 5 August 2012 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2012. January 1st A cheerful Duke of Edinburgh attended the New Year’s Day church service at Sandringham this morning, making his first public appearance after his hearth surgery. Also Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and the Earl and Countess […]
Royal News 2011
Last modified: 1 January 2012 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2011. January 1st In her New Year’s speech, broadcasted on New Year’s Eve, Queen Margrethe warned against letting the financial crisis devolve into a “crisis of values”. She said: “We will find some way out of the financial crisis in […]
Royal News 2010
Last modified: 7 January 2011 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2010. January 1st The Princess Royal has been the busiest member of the British royal family in 2009. She undertook 554 engagements. She is closely followed by the Prince of Wales who undertook 540 engagements, and the Duke of York […]
Royal News 2008
Last modified: 8 January 2009 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2008. January 1st King Juan Carlos I of Spain celebrated New Year with the Spanish ISAF troops in Herat, Afghanistan, yesterday. He told the troops: “I have instructions from my family to congratulate you and thank you.” He saw the […]
Royal News 2007
Last modified: 6 January 2008 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2007. January 1st Countess Bettina Bernadotte af Wisborg and her husband Philipp Haug had a daughter, Linnea, in Konstanz at 2.30am on December 31. The couple is very happy with their second child and mother and daughter are doing fine. […]
Royal News 2006
Last modified: 2 January 2007 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2006. January 1st Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was moved to the Bronovo Hospital in The Hague. She will rehabilitate there until the moment she can return home. The doctors are very satisfied about the progress the Queen makes with […]