The President of Iceland has sent a
heart-warming letter to King Harald and Queen Sonja. The letter was
sent 11 March but published by the Royal Court today. The full
letter states: “Your Majesties, I have received the news that Your
Majesties the King and Queen are currently in quarantine in
accordance with the current guidance and the rules that have now
been introduced in Norway…
On this day, March 27, in 1785, His
Majesty King Louis XVII was borne in France. He was born prince of
France and Duke of Normandy and was the son of King Louis XVI and
Marie Antoinette. When his older brother, Louis Joseph, died in
June 1789, he became the heir to the…
Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel thank Swedish troops for their work battling coronavirus
26th March 2020
The Crown Princess Couple visited the
field hospital at the Stockholm Fair in Älvsjö Thursday to see the
incredible work being done by the Swedish Armed Forces in their
efforts to add more hospital beds to the city. The troops are
working day and night to complete the…
The fact that Europe’s queens and
princesses have good relationships with each other is well known.
But it’s more perhaps more unusual to hear about friendships
between Europe’s royals and Russian politicians. et this was
exactly what happened when Queen Sonja first met the first
democratically elected leader of Russia, Boris Yeltsin. The
free-spirited former Communist managed to…
Because to save our planet, to change a
system that destroys it step by step, we will need all the ideas,
all the willings, all the mobilisable means. We will need to
multiply the initiatives, from the most confidential to the most
global ones, from the most classical to the…
On this day, March 24, exactly 300 years
ago Sweden elected a new King. For many in today’s society, it may
seem strange that a nation can choose a new monarch, but Sweden has
elected new monarchs on several occasions. Frederick was born in
Germany in 1676 and…
As the last Emperor of Russia, Tsar
Nicholas II’s twenty-three-year reign came to an abrupt end when he
abdicated on 15 March 1917. Those tumultuous years of his reign
were defined by the Russo-Japanese War that saw the annihilation of
the Russian Baltic Fleet, Bloody Sunday and an estimated 3.3
million Russians die during World War I. The relatives of
Nicholas’s extended family tree insisted…
She became an empress in the most
difficult of circumstances and her short reign ended in exile and a
lifetime of supporting her royal heritage from afar. Zita, Empress
of Austria found herself with an imperial crown as a result of an
assassination which sent the world to…
Two princesses vying for the ultimate
crown.Two girls vying for the prince’s heart.This is the story of
the American royals.What if America had its own royal family? New
York Times bestselling author Katharine McGee took this question
and ran with it in her latest…
Focusing on vulnerable young people in
Belgium is the main goal of the Queen Mathilde Fund, which was
created from the donations received as gifts for the wedding of the
King (then Prince Philippe) and Queen Mathilde (then known as
Mathilde d’Udekem d’Acoz). The Fund is managed by the King Baudouin
Foundation and “supports exceptional initiatives in Belgium, which
are…
