Though Queen’s Day is now celebrated as
King’s Day in the Netherlands, the 2009 celebrations in Apeldoorn
will forever be marked by tragedy. De Naald by Brbbl – CC BY-SA 3.0
via Wikimedia Commons Ten years ago – on 30 April 2009 – Karst
Tates drove his black Suzuki Swift through a crowd of people who
had lined the streets to watch the Dutch Royal Family go by in a…
The city of Amersfoort is slowly turning
orange as it awaits the arrival of the Royal Family tomorrow for
King’s Day. Although the royals are not expected to arrive by
train, most of the public will be using public transport, and the
Amersfoort Central Station welcomes…
On 25 April, Princess Marie attended the
presentation of Princess Marie-Esmeralda of Belgium’s 2014 book 10
Femmes Prix Nobel de la Paix (10 Women who won the Nobel Peace
Prize) in Rungsted. In 2014, Princess Marie-Esmeralda interviewed
the nine women who won the Nobel…
It was in February that Her Majesty Queen
Sonja of Norway opened a brand new exhibition in Queen Sonja Art
Stable in Oslo. On Friday, another art piece was added to the
ongoing show, and Royal Central’s Senior Europe Correspondent Oskar
Aanmoen was invited to the preview. It is the Sami artist Máret
Ánne Sara’s art piece “Spirals of the Pile” which is the newest
piece to go on…
Surprise! The Duchess of Brabant joins her father King Philippe on visit to firefighters of Brussels
26th April 2019
Princess Elisabeth of Belgium has
unexpectedly joined her father, King Philippe on a visit to the
firefighters of Brussels. The Duchess of Brabant seemed very
interested and asked a lot of questions such as “Are there also
many women here?” King Philippe of…
Royal Central takes a look at the
tradition of celebrating the monarch’s birthday that began as
Princess’s Day. In the 19th century, King William III of the
Netherlands faced quite a bit of unpopularity but his four-year-old
daughter Wilhelmina, his future…
Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia
visited a children’s hospital in Serbia on Thursday. This was part
of an annual tradition that the Crown Princess has to visit a
hospital every Easter. Crown Princess Katherine visited children in
the Children’s Hospital for Pulmonary Diseases “Dr Dragisa Misovic“
and in the Clinical-Hospital Center Zvezdara and handed them the
Easter gifts which were…
More details released for Grand Duke Jean's funeral, Grand Ducal Court in mourning for six weeks
26th April 2019
More details have been released for the
state funeral for Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg by the Grand Ducal
Court, which will take place on 4 May. The Marshal of the Court
announced yesterday that the Grand Ducal Court would be in mourning
for six weeks. © Grand-Ducal Court…
Because of her health, Her Royal Highness
Crown Princess Mette-Marit has chosen to switch out her annual
“literature train” to a more urban “literature metro”. Instead of
using some of Norway’s long and remote train lines to promote
literature to young people, she…
The Royal House of the Netherlands
announced yesterday that Princess Margriet, a younger sister to
Princess Beatrix – the former Queen of the Netherlands – and aunt
to King Willem-Alexander, had been appointed an honorary chairman
of the Recommendation Committee of the Invictus Games The Hague
2020. The Princess will also be in attendance on 6 May at the
official kick-off meeting for…
