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Belgian royals post good luck message for new school year - a look at education paths for the young royals

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1st September 2021
September is the month that puts an end to the summer holidays and marks the beginning of a new school year in most of Europe. Belgium is not different, and on the 1st of September, the Belgian Royal Family took it to social media and posted a picture of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde’s four children together with a message of good luck to all students going back to school.  The Belgian…
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FeaturesNorway

The king who gave his own daughter-in-law away

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29th August 2021
When Crown Prince Harald announced his intent to marry commoner Sonja Haraldsen, King Olav knew his future daughter-in-law’s father had died almost a decade before; so, being a gentleman, the monarch chose to escort Sonja down the aisle to his son. Crown Prince Harald married the love of his life on 29 August 1968 after announcing their engagement on 19 March 1968. The couple had dated…
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HistoryMiddle East

The last King and Queen of Afghanistan

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28th August 2021
The last King and Queen of Afghanistan were exiled in 1973, and with the monarchy abolished, Afghanistan became a republic. The last King of Afghanistan was Mohammed Zahir Shah, who succeeded his father in 1933 at the age of 19, following the latter’s assassination. The young King had been educated at an English-language and later a French-language school in Kabul before being sent to…
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FeaturesNorwayRoyal Weddings

The most unusual royal wedding bouquet of all?

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25th August 2021
It’s not often the bridal bouquet gets its own name but that’s just what happened at the first major royal wedding of the 21st century. When Mette-Marit Tjessem Hjoiby married Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, on August 25th 2001 in Oslo, she carried an unusual arrangement of flowers that had a title all of its own. The creation was called ‘Brudeloperen’ and it remains one…
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