The summer season is officially underway for crew and officers on the Royal Norwegian Ship. On Thursday afternoon, King Harald and Crown Prince Haakon embarked the ship for inspection.
The tradition of royal embarkation dates back to 1948 when King Haakon VII received ‘Norway’ as a gift from the Norwegian people. Due to the ongoing global health emergency, the 2021 sailing programme…
Atlantic Crossing - Fact vs Fiction - a series full of mistakes that many viewers will simply accept as facts
7th May 2021
Royal Central’s Senior Europe Correspondent Oskar Aanmoen, who is based in Oslo, talks us through the inaccuracies contained within Atlantic Crossing – an eight-part series looking at the plight of the Norwegian Crown Princess during World War II.
Atlantic…
Queen Margrethe of Denmark was present at the inauguration of the sculpture ‘October 1943’ in the small Danish city of Humlebæk on Wednesday. The Queen arrived using the royal yacht. Upon arrival, Her Majesty was received by the Mayor of the Fredensborg…
Prince Emanuel of Liechtenstein under investigation over shooting Romania's largest bear
6th May 2021
Prince Emanuel of Liechtenstein has shot the largest bear in Europe by a mistake. Investigation is underway after the prince killed Europe’s largest bear during a trophy hunt in Transylvania in March this year. The brown bear, Arthur, was 17 years old and probably the largest of its kind in Europe. Arthur was shot a month after a local farmer complained that a female bear was harassing his…
On Tuesday, Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway visited the Aurora workshop – a working community of artists with and without disabilities in Bærum. Ceramics, textiles, clothing and paper have been produced at the workshop, despite a pandemic and strict infection…
On Tuesday, Queen Margrethe officially boarded the royal ship Dannebrog in the Port of Copenhagen at the naval base of Nyholm for the start of the 2021 sailing season. Upon arrival at Nyholm, Her Majesty was presented with flowers and was received by the Queen’s…
Due to the ongoing pandemic, Queen Sonja’s art gallery in the old stables at the Royal Palace in Oslo has been closed for over a year. The Queen has now established a new exhibition that will be shown digitally. Some of Norway’s most beautiful works of art will be exhibited this summer in the Queen Sonja Art Stable, in collaboration with the National Museum. The exhibition “Art…
The Norwegian monarchy is rock solid. Recent surveys show that an average of 82% of the Norwegian people wants to keep the monarchy as their form of government.
However, the leader of the Norwegian Agricultural Party, Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, accused the conservative…
Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg opens new Camping Museum at Egeskov Castle
4th May 2021
Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and her husband, Count Michael, opened Europe’s first Camping Museum at Egeskov Castle in Denmark. The new museum is located in the same buildings as the Falck Museum and the Veterans Museum and was created in…
This weekend the Royal Family of Serbia celebrated Orthodox Easter. His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander sent congratulations for the Easter holidays to His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije, bishops, clergy and all believers of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
In his statement, the Serbian Crown Prince said: “To all Orthodox believers, my wife and I and the entire Royal Family, wish a…
