Yesterday, it was announced that His
Highness Duke Carl Gregor of Mecklenburg had died. The announcement
was made on the official Facebook page of the House of Mecklenburg.
The official press release stated that the Duke passed away Monday
morning, 23 July 2018, at the age of 85 at his home Villa
Silberburg in Hechingen where he had lived for over 50 years
following his marriage to Princess Maria…
Royalism in Romania is on the rise. The
Balkan nation is well on its way to re-establishing its
constitutional monarchy, and the people look up to the members of
the Romanian Royal Family as their role models. They see how unfair
Romanian royal history has been treated. Blue…
This year marks 200 years since Karl
XIV Johan became king of both Norway and Sweden. The French
General, who became Swedish and Norwegian King, was used to
troubled times. After he became a monarch, this did not change. The
Swedish representatives created problems for the…
On Friday, large parts of the Norwegian
Royal Family were gathered to celebrate Crown Prince Haakon who was
45-years-old. They celebrated the big day at the Royal Family’s
country house at Mågerø in Tjøme, where the whole family where
gathered for a private birthday celebration. View this post on
Instagram A post shared by Det Norske Kongehuset…
According to tradition, King Harald ended
this week with his annual salmon fishing holiday in northern
Norway. For two days, King Harald was by the Altaelva River in
Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost county. Together with a few good
comrades, they fished for Norwegian…
This year it is 200 years since Carl XIV
Johan became king of both Norway and Sweden. But who was he? King
Carl Johan (1763-1818-1844), originally Jean Baptiste Bernadotte,
was born in the south of France and became a soldier at
17-years-old. During the French Revolution, he…
The royal order of the Norwegian Lion was
a Norwegian and Swedish royal order that was instituted by King
Oscar II on 21 January 1904. It had the King as the Grandmaster,
and the order consisted of only one degree, similar to the Order of
the Garter. The intention was that the Norwegian Lion should be a
“sovereign knight order” equivalent to the Swedish Seraphim Order
and the Danish…
Yesterday, 4 July 2018, Her Highness
Infanta Maria Francisca of Portugal was made Duchess of Coimbra by
her father, HRH the Duke of Braganza, the current pretender to the
throne of Portugal. She was also, by her mother, the Duchess of
Braganza, proclaimed Dame of the Order…
Royals from three nations gathered in The
Hague in the Netherlands to attend the Volvo Ocean Race this past
weekend. Swedish Prince Carl Philip, Dutch King Willem-Alexander of
the Netherlands, Infanta Elena of Spain and her father, King Juan
Carlos of Spain were all present…
Following an unusual heat wave that has
been over Norway since the beginning of May, the Royal properties
in Oslo had to stop their usual watering last week. Now the City
council of Oslo has given the palace special permission to use
water during the ongoing drought. This was announced by the palace
in a statement on Tuesday. The fountains in the park recycle the
water. The royal gardener…
