Norway

King Harald and Queen Sonja visit Nordland - Day 2

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14th June 2018
King Harald and Queen Sonja continued their journey in Nordland. They started their visit on Tuesday, and yesterday the tour continued to Værøy and Røst. The royals arrived at Røst on the royal yacht “Norge”. This municipality has 365 islands but only 500 inhabitants, and almost all of them were ready to receive the King and Queen. In the municipality’s village of Glea, there…
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Norway

King Harald and Queen Sonja visit Nordland - Day 1

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13th June 2018
On Tuesday morning, King Harald and Queen Sonja started their annual county journey. This time the Norwegian regents travelled to Nordland. The visit will last three days and end on Thursday. First up was Straumen in Sørfold municipality and Vollmoen in Steigen…
Norway

Crown Prince Haakon: "We let people steal our apples"

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12th June 2018
Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and Prince Daniel of Sweden attended the EAT Stockholm Food Forum in Sweden today. After holding a speech for the assembly where the Crown Prince emphasised the importance of living more sustainably, Crown Prince Haakon shared some of his own…
The Sussexes

Loophole means the Duke and Duchess of Sussex could become King and Queen of Canada

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12th June 2018
There is nothing that prevents the Duke and Duchess of Sussex from becoming the King and Queen of Canada, thanks to a loophole in the law. This has been reported in various Canadian newspapers the last few days. According to Canadian law, the Canadian constitution says the North American nation needs to be a monarchy, but it does not specify who the monarch must be. Therefore, theoretically, the…
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Norway

Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Queen Sonja unveiled new statues in Palace Park in Oslo

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7th June 2018
Her Royal Highness Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway, unveiled this Friday four new sculptures in Princess Ingrid Alexandra’s Sculpture Park in the Palace Park by the Royal Palace in Oslo. The Princess was accompanied by her grandmother, Her Majesty Queen Sonja. The sculptures that Princess Ingrid Alexandra unveiled were the winners of a contest among schoolchildren from Oslo, Akershus…
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European RoyalsGreece

Who is King Constantine II of Greece?

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2nd June 2018
On the occasion of His Majesty King Constantine of Greece’s birthday today, we look back on the monarch’s life, his time on the throne, time in exile and return to Greece. King Constantine was born on 2 June 1940 in Athens. He was only one-year-old when Italy and…
Romania

Romanian royals attended concert and book launch commemorating King Michael I

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31st May 2018
Wednesday of this week Her Majesty Margareta, custodian of the crown of Romania and her husband Prince Radu attended a ceremony where a new book about King Michael was presented. A large audience took part in the event. Following the book-launch, a short concert was held in memory of the king. Camelia Csiki, co-author of the book and historian spoke about the new book together with Corinthian…
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