Images of King Juan Carlos and King
Felipe of Spain were set alight at the weekend as a protest against
the country’s monarchy took place in Madrid. The gathering, which
involved several hundred people, came as a new poll for a newspaper
showed most people are against the decision of Juan Carlos to leave
Spain as investigations into allegations of corruption continue.
The protest is the…
Less than a week after he announced his
decision to leave Spain, King Juan Carlos is all the country wants
to talk about. The former monarch announced he was going into exile
on August 3rd 2020, having already departed, quite possibly in the
hope that by going he would take…
The details of the last will of the late
Princess Lilian of Sweden are once again being debated by the
country’s press. And the details show that siblings Crown Princess
Victoria, Prince Carl Philip and Princess Madeleine were treated
very differently by their aunt…
Tessy Antony de Nassau has received the
Freedom of the City of London award by the Clerk of the Mayor of
the City. She was presented the award on Friday, 7 August, at a
late-morning ceremony conducted over Zoom due to the ongoing
pandemic. Part of the ceremony consisted of Tessy reading a
declaration of loyalty towards Queen Elizabeth II. In it, she vows
to be loyal to the mayor of the city…
King Felipe VI of Spain has arrived in
Mallorca for his annual summer holiday. Felipe, along with Queen
Letizia and their two daughters, was spotted driving into the
Marivent Palace on the island where they traditionally spend part
of August. The stay is usually a relaxed…
Following the exile of Spain’s former
monarch King Juan Carlos, some royal commentators are questioning
whether the honours awarded to him by Queen Elizabeth II may be
rescinded. As reported in the Daily Mail, Juan Carlos has been
honoured both with the Royal…
Countess Alexandra of Frederiksborg,
former wife of Prince Joachim of Denmark, has expressed her support
to her former husband following his recently illness. In a
statement to the Danish magazine “Billedbladet” she says that she
and the two sons she has with Prince Joachim, Prince Nikolai and
Prince Felix, have followed Prince Joachim’s serious illness with
great nervousness and…
European and African monarchs join Queen Elizabeth and King Abdullah in sending condolences to Lebanon
6th August 2020
Monarchs from across Europe, Africa and
the Middle East have joined Queen Elizabeth II and Jordan’s King
Abdullah in sending condolences to Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun
after the explosion that left massive devastation in Beirut on
Tuesday. King…
Several Spanish newspapers are reporting
that King Juan Carlos I has arrived in the Caribbean nation of the
Dominican Republic. The former monarch left Spain on Sunday,
shortly before an official announcement that he was to go into
exile. Several media sources have reported…
”I’m a Juancarlist, not a monarchist” was
a well worn phrase in Spain once upon a time. In fact, it was heard
most loudly when Spain’s monarchy was a fairytale come true in the
20th century. People liked their king but they didn’t necessarily
care so deeply for the institution he represented. The bond was
personal and they took their dose of royalty to keep hold of…
