The Duchess of Cambridge marked Holocaust
Memorial Day on January 27th with a poignant video call with two
Holocaust survivors, Zigi Shipper and Manfred Golberg. The men,
who’d been sent to the Stutthof concentration camp when they were
teenagers, have become lifelong friends and are now in their 90s.
To mark #HolocaustMemorialDay The Duchess of Cambridge spoke with
Holocaust survivors…
Queen Mathilde's visit to teenage mothers praised for bringing their story 'out of the shadows'
27th January 2021
Queen Mathilde has paid a visit to
teenage girls receiving support from a youth care facility. Her
visit to Le Tobbogan, a facility in Mons, took place on January
26th after a week’s delay when it was revealed that she may have
come into contact with a staff member at the…
Queen Letizia has chaired the first
meeting of a strategic council in place for Women in Engineering in
Spain, heralding in a project for change within the industry. The
meeting, which took place at the Royal Academy of Engineering in
Spain on January 26th, included women…
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge wish Slàinte Mhath to Scottish frontline workers
26th January 2021
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge teamed
up with the National Health Service for a special delivery to
Scottish frontline workers in honour of Burns Night. On January
25th 2021, the couple shared a video on their social media accounts
announcing that they had partnered up with NHS Charities Together
to provide a Burns celebration lunch to the frontline workers at
NHS Tayside, a Scottish…
The Duchess of Cambridge has thanked
nurses for “going that extra mile” during the coronavirus pandemic
in a video call released by Kensington Palace. Earlier this week,
Kate spoke with five of the 2,428 nurses from the University
Hospitals Coventry &…
The Governor General of Canada resigns following accusations of toxic work environment
22nd January 2021
The Governor General of Canada, The
Queen’s viceregal representative in Canada, has stepped down from
her post following a months-long investigation into the work
environment at Rideau Hall. The Right Honourable Julie Payette, who
had served as Canada’s Governor…
The Duchess of Cornwall elaborated on the
idea behind her newly-launched Reading Room, writing that she hopes
it will be a digital “resource, a reassurance and a refuge for all
book lovers” around the world to gather and discuss literature. In
an exclusive for The Sunday Times and shared on the Prince of
Wales’s website, Camilla writes of the journeys reading took her…
Though King Harald and Queen Sonja are
marking 30 years on the throne this year, there’s another
anniversary in Norway to commemorate as well: Crown Prince Haakon’s
30 years as the heir apparent to the throne. Born on 20 July 1973,
Haakon has been destined for the…
Harald became King of Norway in January
1991 upon the death of his father and was consecrated alongside his
wife, Queen Sonja, (who became the first Norwegian queen to be born
a commoner) later that year. As mentioned in another article,
Harald’s reign has been marked…
As King Harald marks his 30th year on the
Norwegian throne, we’re looking back at the three very modern
monarchs of Norway since the dissolution of Sweden and Norway in
1905 and the independence of a Norwegian monarchy. King Haakon VII
The very first modern monarch of Norway was elected in a plebiscite
by the newly-independent people of his soon-to-be country in
November 1905, though…
