The second largest annual gathering of Moslems is the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. This week, King Salman of Saudi Arabia launched the Haramain High Speed Railway at Jeddah’s Al-Sulaymaniyah station. Opening to the public next month, the electric railway will whisk up to 60 million passengers a year with a fleet of thirty-five trains carrying just over four hundred passengers per…
Prince William to undertake a seven-day working visit to Africa next week
19th September 2018
More details have been revealed about Prince William’s visit to Africa at the end of the month. The seven-day visit starting on September 24th will see the Duke of Cambridge visiting three African countries, Namibia, Tanzania and Kenya. A spokesman for Kensington Palace…
Lady Gabriella Windsor is the daughter of Prince & Prince Michael of Kent and was born at St Mary’s Hospital Paddington on 23rd April 1981.
Gabriella, or Ella as she is known to family, has an elder brother, Lord Frederick Windsor who is married to Sophie Winkleman…
It would appear that the close ties between Qatar and Turkey may have been strengthened, as the Emir of Qatar seeks a new circle of international friends as some of the other Arab countries have turned away from him in view of his close ties with Iran. As we reported recently on Royal Central about an announcement of an investment programme in Germany that had come hot on the heels of talks with…
The Princess Royal has made a visit this week to Headway Worcester to open a new kitchen facility and meet some of the brain injury survivors that have benefitted from the services it offers. Princess Anne was originally scheduled to visit the Gregory’s Mill Street…
Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine hosted an event this weekend at the White Palace in Belgrade that boasted “24 hours of Elegance”. Here the finest in motor vehicles, high fashion and fine art, which epitomises elegance and style…
Many leaders in Europe are looking to invest in Africa, and as Royal Central reported last month, Princess Astrid is making a trip to Morocco. At a joint business forum in Berlin on Friday, the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, standing alongside Chancellor Merkel of Germany, pledged to invest ten million euros over the next five years into the German economy.
To a point, in recent…
As his name suggests, Crown Prince Mohammad is the son of King Salman. He was born on the 31st August 1985 as the son of King Salman and his third wife, Fahda bint Falah bin Sultan bin Hathleen. He is the eldest of her children and is considered to be the power behind the…
The Belgian Royal Palace announced at the end of last week that Princess Astrid would lead an economic mission to Morocco in November. The mission will run from the 25th to the 30th of November and visit the Moroccan cities of Rabat, Tangier and Casablanca. She will be…
This last week, Princess Beatrix opened an exhibition of sculptures at House Doorn near Utrecht. The exhibition is entitled “Resistance and Sadness in the picture” and features work from Germany and the Netherlands – the former representing links with World War I and the latter with World War II. During WWI, Holland was actually a neutral country and at the end of the war Kaiser Wilhelm II…
