Sonja Haraldsen was born on 4 July 1937
as the youngest child of Karl August and Dagny Haraldsen at
the Red Cross Clinic in Oslo. Her elder brothers were Haakon (b.
1921) and Karl (1929-1936), and her elder sister was Gry (b. 1924).
However, her brother Karl died the year before Sonja was born, and
as a result, her parents were very protective of their
youngest child. Also, due to the age gap…
She is set to become Japan’s next Empress
in May 2019, but today we take a look at the life of Crown Princess
Masako of Japan before she married Crown Prince Naruhito. Born
Masako Owada on 9 December 1963 at theToranomon Hospital in Tokyo,
Japan, she is the…
Why Princess Madeleine of Sweden's children could lose their titles in the coming years
4th August 2018
As the Royal Court of Sweden announced on
Thursday that Princess Madeleine and her family are now moving back
to the United States, we take a look now at how this news might
affect her children. It came as a surprise for many when it was
announced back in 2013 that Princess…
She would go on to live a life of royal
duties which led her to be called one of the unsung heroes of the
Royal Family, but today we take a look at the life of the Duchess
of Gloucester before she married The Queen’s cousin: Prince
Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Born Birgitte Eva Henriksen on 20
June 1946 in Odense, Denmark, she is the youngest daughter
of Asger Preben Wissing Henriksen, a…
She is Denmark’s future Queen, but today
we take a look at the life of Crown Princess Mary before her
marriage to Crown Prince Frederik. Mary Elizabeth Donaldson was
born on 5 February 1972 in Hobart, Australia, as the third daughter
and youngest child of John…
Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones was born on 20
January 1965 as the youngest child and only daughter
of Christopher Bournes Rhys-Jones and the late Mary O’Sullivan
at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. She has an elder brother,
David. One of her godparents was the late…
Born Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley on 22
February 1933, she would one day become a much-loved member of the
Royal Family, as the Duchess of Kent, but now we take a look at her
life before her marriage to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent. Katharine
is the youngest child and only daughter of Sir William
Worsley, 4th Baronet, of whom she is said to have been very close
to, and Joyce Morgan Brunner. She…
Royals are just like the rest of us, they
are all over the various kinds of social media. Today we take a
look at all those royals who have public Instagram accounts and use
it as a way to showcase their public work and a small part of their
private lives. United Kingdom The…
It was on 15 December 1948 that Prince
Charles’s christening took place. Prince Charles of Edinburgh, as
he was known at the time of his birth, had been born only four
weeks and three days before his christening as the first child of
Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of…
Starting mostly in the 20th century, a
number of monarchies were deposed. However, to this day we can
still see members of ousted royal families being called by the
titles they held when they once reigned. It is important to note
that deposed royals obviously don’t have their titles recognised in
the countries they used to reign, and when other people, or even
themselves, style them by these…
