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Queen Sofía given huge honour by King Felipe VI

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11th January 2025
King Felipe has awarded his mother with Spain’s highest honour as the 50th anniversary of her becoming queen approaches.In an official State Bulletin published on 10 January 2025, King Felipe decreed that Queen Sofía would be awarded the Collar of the Insigne Order of the Golden Fleece. The Spanish King declared that he was awarding his mother the honour “to bear witness to My Royal…
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The unusual golden tiara that Greenland used to celebrate a queen

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8th January 2025
As the status of Greenland becomes the topic of global debate again, Denmark’s royal family’s long love of the country is once more in the spotlight. Its current monarch, Frederik X, is so fond that he gave two of his four children Greenlandic middle names. Meanwhile, his mother, Queen Margrethe, received a special tiara to mark her Ruby Jubilee in 2012, a golden gift from the people…
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Features

A new year - what next for the royals?

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7th January 2025
The new year is a whole week old and already royal plans are taking shape. But what could the 12 months ahead hold for the Royal Family as well as for the dynasties that reign in Europe? Here are a few predictions from our team.Lydia Starbuck, Editor in Chief, Royal…
Denmark

King Frederik and Queen Mary reign at New Year's Levees

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7th January 2025
King Frederik and Queen Mary hosted the second and third New Year’s Levees in Denmark: one for military and high court judges and the other for the diplomatic corps.The first levee, for the supreme court justices, the Royal Lifeguards and the Guardhusarregiment’s…
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The royal title once thought to be cursed

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2nd January 2025
It’s one of the oldest royal dukedoms of all but it’s brought more drama than most and it took centuries for one of its holders to have an heir to take it on. Right now, it belongs to one of the most dutiful members of the Royal Family but his predecessors have been more controversial, to say the least. In fact, some caused so much trouble, the title was once said to be cursed.The…
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Denmark

Crown Prince Christian's New Year's first

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2nd January 2025
It was a royal first for Crown Prince Christian on the first evening of 2025: the young royal attended his first ever New Year’s Levee.Hosted at Christian VII’s Palace at Amalienborg, the traditional New Year Levee is hosted by the monarch for Denmark’s government…
Belgium

The queen who can't get enough of one particular designer

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31st December 2024
Much like Queen Máxima, Queen Mathilde loves a jewel tone, a print pattern and Natan. But comparing the women side-by-side ends there because while Queen Máxima always looks this side of vibrant and businesslike, Queen Mathilde’s styling has a timeless effect.She wouldn’t be out of place in the 1960s competing for fashion headlines with Jacqueline Kennedy or Audrey Hepburn, so…
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