Norway

Norwegian Crown Prince Couple visits Estonia

The Crown Prince Couple of Norway has continued their Baltic tour from Latvia on Monday to Lithuania on Tuesday. Wednesday was kicked off in Lithuania before the Crown Prince and Crown Princess went on to the last of the Baltic nations, Estonia where they spent the day and will finish their visit on today. The Wednesday was kicked off when the Crown Prince participated in a breakfast meeting on…
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Spain

King Felipe and Queen Letizia attend "Miguel de Cervantes" Prize 2017

On 23 April 2018, the “Miguel de Cervantes” award ceremony took place at the auditorium of University of Alcala and was attended by King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain. This achievement is considered one of the most esteemed literacy awards in Spain and Latin America. Shaped in the form of a gong, the award was given to Nicaraguan author Sergio Ramirez for his creative work in…
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Denmark

Queen Margrethe of Denmark's sarcophagus completed

Queen Margrethe of Denmark’s sarcophagus has been completed and been placed in Sankt Birgittas Chapel in Roskilde Domkirke. It will be there that she will lay upon her death alongside close to 40 Danish kings and queens going back to the early Middle Ages up to…
DenmarkEuropean Royals

Watercolour paintings by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark on Greenland stamps

One fact that is perhaps not as well-known to the vast majority of the world regarding the leadership of Denmark is the not-so-hidden talents of its leading monarch. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark was born in April of 1940 during World War II. By the time she assumed the throne of Denmark from her father King Frederick IX in 1972, times were changing. Her position as ruler of the country was one…
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Norway

Norwegian Crown Prince Couple visits Lithuania

This week, Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit perform a four-day journey to the Baltic nations to celebrate their 100 years as independent states after they declared themselves independent from Russia in 1918. Yesterday, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess…
Monaco

Tatiana Santo Domingo and Andrea Casiraghi welcome their third child

It’s not just the third Cambridge baby making his debut onto the royal scene this week: Andrea Casiraghi and his wife Tatiana welcomed their third child in Monaco on Thursday, 19 April. The news was first reported this weekend exclusively by Vanity Fair Spain before Hola! was able to get confirmation yesterday. Casiraghi, the eldest child of Princess Caroline of Hanover and nephew to Prince…
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