The Netherlands

The king who might have found his country under invasion from Boris Johnson

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28th September 2024
The former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has revealed he considered invading the Netherlands during the height of the Covid pandemic. Boris Johnson writes in his memoir that he looked at the possibility of launching an aquatic raid on a warehouse in Leiden to grab vaccines he believed belonged to the UK by right as they had been developed in the country. Quite what King Willem-Alexander…
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Royal News

Did Buckingham Palace just give the thumbs up to a very difficult duke?

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20th September 2024
Buckingham Palace might just have given away a very big secret. For years, there has been debate about the standing of a certain duke inside royal circles and now a brief social media post could have revealed how the Palace really feels about him. And it appears that an ultimate royal rebel might just have found redemption. The man in question is Richard, Duke of Gloucester and later King of…
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Denmark

Queen Margrethe taken to hospital after fall

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19th September 2024
Queen Margrethe is in hospital after a fall at her home. The queen, who is 84, was taken to the Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen on Wednesday evening after falling at Fredernsborg Castle. The royal court said she was ‘doing well under the circumstances’ but…
Features

The royal bride who accepted a prince but married a king

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18th September 2024
It was a marriage that sealed a famous love story and turned a princess into a queen. On September 18th 1964, royalty from across Europe gathered in Athens to see the continent’s newest monarch wed a bride who had just turned eighteen. Constantine II of Greece and Anne-Marie of Denmark’s romance went on to weather political crises and exile – here’s a look back at a very royal wedding…
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Features

The royal wedding gift of sapphires that was hidden behind palace doors for decades

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14th September 2024
Queen Letizia likes to pull a style surprise and among the biggest of the year so far is her decision to dust down a sapphire necklace that hadn’t been seen for decades. The Queen of Spain wore a very special but rarely seen set of jewellery for one of the most important royal events of the year when she and King Felipe welcomed diplomats from around the world to Madrid’s Royal…
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