As ‘A Royal Weekend in Leeuwarden’ in October 2024 was a huge success, Ted Rosvall, Bearn Bilker and I have decided to also organize ‘A Royal Weekend’ in 2025. This time the event is to take place in the Bilderberg Hotel De Keizerskroon in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, on 11 and 12 October 2025. The hotel […]
A Royal Weekend – this year in Apeldoorn from 10-12 October 2025 – is by no means the first event of this kind ever being organised. All started probably with a man called Paul Minet, who owned a bookshop in Ticehurst, East Sussex, United Kingdom. He published the magazine Royalty Digest with stories about royal […]
30 April 2009. It is ten years ago, but it is a day I will never forget as long as I live. It was one of the most horrible days of my life so far. The day had started early for me. I had stayed the night at a friend, and took the bike to […]
As I reported earlier Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, has closed its doors on 8 January 2018 and will be renovated and extended in the coming years. The palace expects to open its doors again in 2021. Many people I know can hardly wait and hope that the renovation will be great. Of […]
I promise you this is the last Christmas at Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn post. But there was so much to see this time. Apart from Christmas trees, Christmas decoration and festive tables, in the right wing of the palace there were also serviettes and really nice: menu cards. If you had time you could […]
No, it is not only Christmas decoration on display during the weeks around Christmas and the New Year at Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands – the palace that has just closed its doors until 2021. Every year there are also a few festively laid tables. And this year the palace really pulled out […]
This weekend Palace Het Loo has its doors opened for the last time until 2021. In these three years you will only be able to visit the stables and gardens, and can’t visit the palace itself because of renovation works (see here). I paid my last visit to the palace on 30 December 2017, enjoying […]
Last week Winter visited the Netherlands. Temperature just around 0°C during the day, and just below at night here in the north of the country. Some snow, mainly wet, thus slippery roads in the night and early morning. It must have been somewhat colder in the middle part of the country, as they had more […]
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 Spring of 1884 Empress Elisabeth of Austria, better known as Sisi, spent six weeks in the Netherlands for medical treatment. She also planned several visits to interesting places, like the Artis Zoo, the Rijksmuseum, the Dutch palaces. The Empress was on a private visit. King Willem III and Queen Emma were told of […]