Her Majesty Queen Sonja is to visit
France in September. Her Majesty Queen Sonja will be present during
the opening of the exhibition “Forces de la Nature” at the National
Ceramics Museum in Sèvres on 23 September 2018. The display is a
tribute to Norwegian creativity in modern ceramics and wallpaper
design. Exceptional in scale, “Forces of Nature” presents no less
than 65 works…
On Thursday, His Majesty King Harald of
Norway has released a statement concerning the Greek forest
fires. The announcement said: Your Excellency, Mr Prokopis
Pavlopoulos, President of the Hellenic Republic I am saddened by
the news about the terrible forest fires that have…
Archduchess Maria of Austria has died.
This was announced earlier this week by the Habsburg family.
Archduchess Maria of Austria died 20 July at the age of 82 in her
home in the Austrian capital of Vienna. She was, on her mother’s
side, a second cousin of Queen Paola…
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…
