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 […]
Princess Sophie von Hohenberg and family. Photo & Copyright: Henriëtte E.
When there is one book you should read at the moment, it is “The Assassination of the Archduke. Sarajevo 1914 and the Murder that Changed the World” by Greg King and Sue Woolmans. On 28 June it is 100 years ago that Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Austrian Crown Prince, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife […]