Royal News

Princess Leonor "eager to learn" as she begins the final year of her military training

The future queen of Spain arrived at the General Air and Space Academy in San Javier to begin her third and final year of military training. Princess Leonor will spend the next year training with the Spanish Air and Space Force in a specially-designed programme that has allowed her the chance to work with all branches of the Spanish military before she becomes its colonel-in-chief when she…
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Luxembourg

Stately new portraits of Luxembourg's future grand duke released

With just over a month to go before Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume ascends to the Luxembourgish throne, the Grand Ducal Court is sharing new photos of him and his wife, Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie. In one portrait, the future Grand Duke poses alone in a suit. A message accompanying the portraits—which will hang in government buildings and businesses—notes that a future portrait of…
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European Royals

Belgium's future queen set to return to Harvard after concerns

It seems Princess Elisabeth is set to return to the US this autumn to continue her studies at Harvard, after a summer of confusion and upheaval regarding the status of international students at the prestigious university. But now, according to the Belgian Royal Court’s spokesman, Xaiver Baert, the future queen of the Belgians is aiming to return for her second year of a master’s degree in…
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Features

This is how Princess Anne's family life brought the royals into the 21st century

Many royal women receive credit for breathing new life into the institution of monarchy, each one of them, so often described as ‘dragging it kicking and screaming’ into modern times, helping to change it slightly from the way they experienced it growing up, and Princess Anne is no exception. Princess Anne was the first of her siblings to get married. On 14 November 1973, she married her…
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