Sweden

King Carl XVI Gustaf concerned about crisis in Swedish Academy

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has expressed his concerns about the ongoing crisis in the Swedish Academy in a short interview yesterday. The King made the statement as he attended the annual meeting of the ICC at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm. Currently, the Swedish Academy is going through a crisis. The background of the crisis is a vote on one of its members, Katarina Frostenson. Her husband is…
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Denmark

Crown Princess Mary opens WHO Conference

Yesterday, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark has opened the World Health Organisation’s “Global Dialogue on Partnership for Sustainable Financing of Noncommunicable Disease (NCD) Prevention and Control” in central Copenhagen. Crown Princess Mary was welcomed by the Danish…
OtherSweden

Norwegian Royal Court upset over publication of information on Marius Borg Høiby’s girlfriend

The Norwegian Royal Court has criticised magazine Se og Hør after it published an elaborate story last week about the relationship between Marius Borg Høiby and his girlfriend and former Playboy model, Juliane Snekkstad. Marius Borg Høiby is Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s son from a previous relationship. Marius Borg Høiby and Juliane Snekkstad have been dating for quite some time and are…
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Spain

King Juan Carlos has "successful surgery" on his right knee

King Juan Carlos of Spain, who has been walking with a cane, had surgery on his right knee today at the private Sanitas La Moraleja University Clinic this afternoon in Madrid. This was the 15th surgery he had undergone with the first being on his appendix when he was a child. The hospital said the 90-minute surgery was successful saying it “has been developed with total normality and the result…
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Denmark

Queen Margrethe to travel on Dannebrog for summer tour

Queen Margrethe of Denmark is set to sail away on the royal yacht, Her Danish Majesty’s Yacht (HDMY) Dannebrog as part of an annual summer tour of the country. Her Majesty will visit the Danish town of Silkeborg on the 3rd and 4th of September before travelling to…
Spain

Queen Letizia attends first engagement after Easter video at a disability in social networks conference

Queen Letizia of Spain has attended her first event since the Easter mass video came to light with a swarm of media there to capture the day. Yesterday at the Headquarters of the Medical Association of Spain in Madrid, the Queen attended a conference regarding disabilities in social networks. Her Majesty sat in the first row during the “II Seminar on Informative Treatment of Disability in…
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