The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have
gained much support and criticism in equal measures following their
controversial interview with Oprah Winfrey over the weekend. A
distant relative has now chimed in. Karl von Habsburg, Archduke of
Austria and the head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, describes
the interview as gossip and garbage. The two-hour long interview
was broadcast on Sunday in…
Sweden will soon welcome a new baby
prince or princess with Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia
expecting their third child. The baby is expected to arrive in late
March or early April. The new baby will be the first royal child to
be born after The King reduced the…
On Tuesday it was announced that Erling
Lorentzen had died at the age of 98. Lorentzen was the widower of
Princess Ragnhild of Norway, eldest daughter of King Olav V, making
him King Harald’s brother-in-law. On Thursday, more details about
Loretnzten’s funeral were…
Members of the Swedish Royal Family are
set to honour those who have died from COVID-19 in a memorial
service at the Royal Chapel at Drottningholm Palace this evening.
King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria, Prince
Daniel, Princess Christina and Tord Magnuson will be in attendance.
Bishop Johan Dalman and Pastor Michael Bjerkhagen will lead the
vigil. The Royal Court’s…
It was a wedding fit for a queen in
waiting but the bride and groom only made it to the altar after a
wave of protest, some of it angry, that threatened to stop their
romance in its tracks. When Beatrix of the Netherlands, then heir
to her country’s throne, wed Claus van…
In a very original attempt to invite
Queen Sonja to western Norway, a group of men have decided to cross
the southern Norwegian mountains on skis to catch the queen’s
attention. Eleven men are now on their way on a 350 kilometre long
ski-trip from Lofthus in Hardanger to…
Princess Märtha Louise, daughter of King
Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway, paid tribute to her mother on
Monday in a post on Instgram. To mark International Women’s Day,
the Norwegian princess chose to emphasise how much she respects her
own mother, the Norwegian queen. Princess Märtha Louise wrote: “The
main person who has shown me this perseverance is my mom, Queen
Sonja, who has been a…
While the world is focusing on the UK
with the bombshell interview the Sussexes gave to Oprah, over in
Sweden they are celebrating the third birthday of their youngest
royal. Princess Adrienne of Sweden, Duchess of Blekinge, turns
three-years-old today and will mark the…
Erling Lorentzen, widower of Princess
Ragnhild, has died at the age of 98. The news was announced on
Tuesday by the Norwegian news agency NTB on behalf of Lorentzen’s
family and was shortly afterwards confirmed in a statement from the
royal court. Lorentzen was the…
Queen Máxima paid a virtual visit to the
Elance Academy on International Women’s Day to learn more about the
projects from the Dutch coaching academy. At Elance, an
organisation first supported by King Willem-Alexander’s and Queen
Máxima’s Oranje Fonds Growth Program, girls and young women are
mentored and trained to “become strong, ambitious women and role
models for the next…
