Royal News

Queen Máxima's diamond-dripping tiara steals the show at Cyprus state dinner

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5th March 2025
For a history-making State Visit to Cyprus, Queen Máxima chose an appropriately historic tiara. The Dutch Diamond Bandeau was fashioned from the diamonds in a necklace given to Queen Emma upon her marriage to King Willem III in 1879. In 1937, Queen Wilhelmina had the diamonds set into a bandeau that she only wore in public once, though subsequent members of the Dutch Royal Family have made…
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Norway

King Harald cold delays start at ski championship

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28th February 2025
The Norwegian Royal Family is set to celebrating skiing over the next week, but they’ll start without their monarch: King Harald has come down with a cold. The Royal Court announced on Wednesday, ahead of a week chockful of engagements in Trondheim and Granåsen for the Nordic World Ski Championships, that King Harald is postponing his attendance while he recovers. Crown Prince Haakon and…
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The royal wedding about to hit the television screens once more

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25th February 2025
It’s a royal repeat as the wedding of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima is set to feature prominently in the Dutch television series Máxima. In an interview with Variety magazine, one of the preeminent entertainment trade magazines, Máxima’s show creators revealed that the royal wedding would be a major plotline for the second season. “In the first episode, she thinks: ‘O.K…
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The King pulls a pint after a day out in Staffordshire

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24th February 2025
Joking that he’d be in the wrong place if he weren’t stepping into Tower Brewery, King Charles celebrated the end of a day of engagements in Staffordshire with a pint of ‘supercharged’ ale. The King was in the West Midlands to visit JCB, a construction equipment…
Sweden

The touching twist behind Princess Estelle's birthday portrait

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23rd February 2025
She’s officially a teenager! Princess Estelle has turned 13, celebrating privately with her family, though the future queen stars in a new portrait with a special twist. Kate Gabor, the photographer behind the future queen’s latest birthday snap, is also the photographer who shot the first pictures of the newborn princess in 2012. When the newborn first child of Crown Princess…
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