On Thursday, Queen Sonja opened an
exhibition of glass art called “Smakebiter” in the Queen Josephine
Gallery in the Oscarshall in Bygdøy, Western Norway. Included
within the exhibition are exhibits from the Queen’s personal
collection of glassware. The Queen commented as she opened the
exhibition that she finds glass art fascinating. She said ‘Glass
art is a difficult medium. I have…
The Swedish Royal Court has released
several new photos of Prince Alexander of Sweden with his parents
for Prince Carl-Philip’s 37th birthday and to give thanks for all
the well wishes. The photos are accompanied by a personal thank you
for the proud parents, “We…
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)…
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 her mother’s
second marriage. Her father passed away when she was just
nine-years-old from a skating accident, and her…
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…
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 Stockholm followed at 10:00. At
10:25 the Swedish Navy’s Music Corps marched and performed a
musical program in the Outer…
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…
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 Magazine, Tilman Ehrbeck praised Queen
Máxima’s work towards financial inclusion in developing countries.
“To…
