Queen Máxima will honour the 35th
anniversary of Alzheimer Nederland with a visit to Alzheimer
Trefpunt De Til in Giessenburg on Tuesday, 10 September. Since 1997
Alzheimer Nederland has set up 246 cafés or “trefpunt” around the
country where patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals can
come together for a monthly meeting to talk about living with
dementia and make…
Norwegian mosque apologises to Crown Prince Haakon after three women refused handshake
27th August 2019
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon
visited the Al-Noor Islamic Centre last week to show support after
the 10 August shooting attack on the mosque. Many people noticed
that three women did not accept the Crown Prince’s outstretched
hand as he attempted to greet…
King Emeritus Juan Carlos has been
transferred out of the intensive care unit after his condition
improved following major cardiac surgery over the weekend. The
former King of Spain had a triple heart bypass – an operation which
has been described as…
On Friday of last week, Her Majesty Queen
Sonja congratulated Russian baritone Sergey Kaydalov who emerged
victorious from the final of the Queen Sonja International Music
Competition 2019. The competition’s final was held in the opera in
Oslo, and it was Her Majesty the Queen who presented the prize to
the winner. Six talented soloists were on stage during the finale.
Kaydalov won with his…
Spain’s leading newspaper,El País,
published the obituary of King Juan Carlos online albeit incredibly
prematurely. In actual fact, the former King of Spain is alive and
well and is recovering in hospital from major cardiac surgery. El
País announced the…
King Emeritus Juan Carlos has been
visited in the Intensive Care Unit by his youngest daughter,
Infanta Cristina. Cristina arrived at the Quirónsalud University
Hospital in Pozuelo de Alarcón on Monday afternoon to visit her
father, alongside her children, Juan…
The Dutch Royal Family has returned to
work, with the first official engagement taking place since the
death of Princess Christina earlier this month. Princess Beatrix
attended the opening of the 79th session of the Institut de Droit
International (IDI) in the Grand Courtroom of the Peace Palace.
Beatrix, formerly Queen of the Netherlands, was the elder sister to
Princess Christina who died…
Doctors treating the former monarch of
Spain, Juan Carlos I, say the major cardiac surgery he underwent
this weekend has been a success. Juan Carlos had a triple bypass on
Saturday at a private clinic in Madrid. King Felipe VI and his
mother, Queen Sofia, arrived at the…
Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden paid a
visit to the Marine Centre and Simris Alg late last week. On
Thursday, Victoria began a day of engagements focusing on marine
life and the marine economy. In the morning, she visited the Marine
Centre in Simrishamn with the…
Bernadotte & Kylberg, the design duo run
by Prince Carl Philip and his friend Oscar Kylberg, have launched a
new homeware collection for Scandanavian brand Stelton. The Prince
has always had a creative eye, as an alumnus of Rhode Island School
of Design and Forsberg’s, a Stockholm advertising, graphic design
and copywriting school. In 2012 he put this talent to use,
partnering with…
