It has been announced that a State
Council will be held at the Royal Norwegian Palace in Oslo on
Wednesday. This is highly unusual as usually, all the State Council
meetings are held on Fridays. Whenever the King does not have the
opportunity to attend the State Council on Fridays, his son, Crown
Prince Haakon attends behalf of his father. When the Crown Prince
also not have the opportunity to…
“Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg,
[showed] lack respect for His Majesty the King and his elected
Assembly,” said the former President of the Stortinget
(the Norwegian national assembly), Dag Terje Andersen to the
Norwegian media on Monday morning. Andersen…
Her Highness Princess Märtha Louise of
Norway has opened up about motherhood in a new interview with the
Norwegian women’s magazine, Kvinner og Klær (KK); her
colleague, Elisabeth Nordeng was also interviewed. They had both
just returned from India for a retreat…
Will Gibraltar turn into the next Falklands? All you need to know about the territorial dispute
2nd April 2017
Gibraltar – a large piece of rock over
1,000 miles away from Britain is currently in the midst of conflict
over what country has legal sovereignty: the UK or Spain? But
Gibraltar is not just a large piece of rock; it is British overseas
territory with 30,000 inhabitants living on it. Despite
compromising of less than 2.6 square miles, it has been in
territorial dispute for centuries due to…
On Thursday 30th March, The Prince of
Wales met with members of Romania’s Royal Family at
the Elisabeta Palace. His Royal Highness has previously
visited the Elisabeta Palace in 2011 and 2016. Romania is now
governed as a republic after the forced abdication of HM…
The Swedish Royal Court has exclusively
confirmed to Royal Central Her Royal Highness Princess Leonore’s
citizenship status. Whether or not she was a dual, or triple, her
citizenship has been the subject of much debate since her birth
three years ago. Their press…
BREAKING: Infanta Alicia, Dowager Duchess of Calabria & Aunt of King Juan Carlos, has died, aged 99
28th March 2017
Infanta Alicia of Spain
(née Princess of Bourbon-Parma) died today at 1.30pm at the
age of 99 in Madrid. The Infanta was born on 13 November 1917 as
the daughter of Elias, Duke of Parma and Archduchess
Maria Anna of Austria. Her father was the youngest son of the
deposed Duke Robert I of Parma and Princess Maria Pia of
Bourbon-Two Sicilies while her mother was a member of the
Teschen…
A company dinner at prestigious military
academy Sandhurst this weekend saw an influx of royal guests as
both the King and Queen of Jordan and the Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess of Luxembourg joined their sons, who are currently enrolled
in the military academy. After he…
The Crown Prince Couple of Norway visited
the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) at Ås, just
outside the capital of Oslo, on Thursday of last week. During the
display of the exhibition, ‘no insects – no food‘, Her Royal
Highness Crown Princess…
Only 37 percent of all young Russians
want to restore the monarchy in their country. This emerged
from a major survey conducted by Izvestia. More than 1,800 people
were asked a series of questions about their attitudes and feelings
towards a reintroduction of the monarchy as a form of government in
Russia. The study was conducted from 16-18 March of this year.
Another 22 percent of all Russians…
