[getty src=”542259040″ width=”594″
height=”396″ tld=”ca”] Prince Philippe and Mathilde d’Udekem d’Acoz
made a surprising announcement in September 1999: they had been in
a secret relationship and were now engaged to be married. Mathilde,
a member of the Belgian nobility, would eventually become the first
Belgian-born Queen of the…
This month, the Queen of Denmark
celebrates her 80th birthday. While celebrations will take place
later in the year, owing to the coronavirus outbreak, as Margrethe
reaches this major milestone, her remarkable life and reign are
again in the spotlight. Today, let’s take a…
At the end of February, an air of
excitement surrounded the famous Abbey Road Studios in London; Jon
Bon Jovi was re-recording a single, but this time with a very
special guest in attendance… The re-recording of Bon Jovi’s song
‘Unbroken’, with the Invictus Games…
Today, let’s take a look at Queen
Margrethe’s life as she prepared to be a queen. We’re looking back
at her life from 1959 to 1971, just before her January 1972
accession to the throne. [getty src=”558631203″ width=”492″
height=”594″ tld=”ca”] Nineteen-year-old Princess Margrethe (right)
with her younger sisters Anne-Marie…
In a two-part documentary about the
Swedish Royal Jewels, both Queen Silvia and Crown Princess Victoria
have spoken about wearing some of the oldest and most precious
jewellery in the world. The Queen and Crown Princess of Sweden also
revealed their favourite tiaras. Her…
This year, in 2020, marks 75 years since
World War II ended. It’s also 80 years since war came to the
monarchies of Norway and Denmark. While the Danish royal family was
taken prisoner by the Germans, the Norwegian royal family managed
to escape from the Germans and…
When the Prince of Wales and the Duchess
of Cornwall announced their engagement in February 2005 they wasted
no time in setting a date or venue for their marriage. They
immediately told the world they would marry in April that year in a
civil ceremony at Windsor Castle followed by a service of blessing
at St. George’s Chapel later the same day. Yet just a week later,
they had to move their civil…
The flowers carried by the Duchess of
Cornwall on her wedding day, April 9th 2005, were filled with
personal touches that had their own place in her royal romance with
the Prince of Wales. For not only were the flowers in Camilla’s
posy highly significant, they had been…
Today, we’re looking back at King
Philippe’s adult life until he became the King of the Belgians in
2013. [getty src=”172013850″ width=”438″ height=”594″ tld=”ca”]
After Prince Philippe turned 18, he joined…
This year, in 2020, marks 75 years since
World War II ended. It is also the 80th anniversary of war coming
to the Monarchies of Norway and Denmark. While the Danish royal
family was taken prisoner by the Nazis, the Norwegian royal family
managed to escape and carry on the war from exile for the next five
years. As early as 1939, both the Allies and Nazi Germany began to
make invasion plans of…
