Eneko Gogeaskoetxea Arronategui has been
sentenced to 92 years in prison by the Spanish national court for
his part in a failed plot to assassinate Spain’s former king, Juan
Carlos I. Gogeaskoetxea, a member of the Basque separatist group
Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), plotted with another group member to
kill Juan Carlos with grenades at the opening of Bilbao’s
Guggenheim Museum on 18 October…
In the second edition of “Who Is?”,
Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau is the focus. She was
born Mabel Martine Los on 11 August 1968 to Hendrik Los
and Florence Kooman in Pijnacker, Netherlands. The Princess
has three sisters, in which the youngest two are from…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of
the Netherlands attended the Remembrance Day commemoration on Dam
Square, opposite the Royal Palace in Amsterdam. Remembrance Day is
the day before the official liberation day in the Netherlands and
used to commemorate only the Dutch…
Norway was in mourning this weekend,
following the tragic helicopter crash off the coast of Bergen, the
country’s second largest city, on Friday. The Airbus EC-225
helicopter had been ferrying staff from an offshore Statoil rig in
the Gullfaks B oilfield before the crash killed all 13
people on board. On Saturday, a sombre Norwegian Prime
Minister, Erna Solberg, accompanied by Crown Prince…
At 08:00 the final day of a week-long
birthday celebration for The King began with 43 Swedish flags being
raised on Skeppsbron accompanied by a soundtrack of the Life Guards
Music Corps. A traditional Te Deum thanksgiving service in the
Royal Chapel at the Royal Palace of…
Over the next several weeks, I want to
write about of some of the lesser talked about royals in
Europe for a series entitled “Who Is?”. One such royal is Her Royal
Highness Princess Marie of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat. Marie was
born Marie Agathe Odile…
The first photo of the newborn Prince
Alexander of Sweden have been released by the Swedish Royal Court.
The photo of the three-day-old prince was taken by his father,
Prince Carl-Philip, at Drottningholm Palace. The prince’s full
name was announced two days after his birth as Alexander Erik
Hubertus Bertil and he also received the title Duke of
Södermanland. The Duke of Södermanland…
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands has been
named among those on Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People
list for 2016. The Queen is the only Dutch citizen and the only
member of royalty in this year’s list. In a short article that he
wrote about her for Time…
Monaco’s ruling Prince Albert II visited
the Philippines, where he was welcomed with a luncheon in
Malacañang. Prince Albert has a passion for the ocean and
marine life and it was only natural that he took a trip to the
Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park in the Sulu…
The youngest member of the Swedish Royal
Family’s name was announced today during a cabinet meeting by his
grandfather Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and in the presence of
his aunt Crown Princess Victoria. The young Prince, son of Prince
Carl-Philip and Princess Sofia received the names Alexander Erik
Hubertus Bertil and also received the title Duke of
Södermanland. He will be known as Prince…
