As Princess Maria Laura of Belgium
prepares to marry her British investment banker fiancé William Isvy
in Brussels, her nuptials become the latest Belgian royal wedding.
There’s a short history of modern royal weddings in Belgium: only
four have occurred since 1980. Today, let’s look at the previous
Belgian royal weddings to see if we can find any hints at what’s to
come. Princess…
Crown Prince Haakon of Norway took part
in the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Tromsø, which was
officially inaugurated by King Olav V, the Crown Prince’s
grandfather. His Royal Highness arrived at Norway’s Arctic
University on 1 September, exactly 50…
Another princess and heir to the throne
is set to head to military school like her European counterparts.
Spain’s Princess Leonor, 16, will undergo military training after
leaving the Atlantic College in Wales. She will graduate from the
Welsh school in 2023.
King Harald and Crown Prince Haakon of
Norway made a joint appearance on the Royal Palace’s balcony to
greet a military parade. But it wasn’t just any military
event; it was the annual performance of the 3rd Guard Company,
which consists of about 130 military personnel, who are recruited
at the beginning of autumn and train during autumn and winter, to
then leave for concerts, exhibitions…
Crown Princess Mary attended the People’s
Movement Against Loneliness conference in Copenhagen this week,
delivering an opening speech that touched upon how far the movement
has come and how much work is still left to be done. Crown Princess
Mary, attending on…
King Felipe has resumed his agenda of
activities after the summer break, and after saying goodbye to his
elder daughter, who went back to the UK for her second year of
study at UW Atlantic. Dressed in his uniform, with the
Commander in Chief sash, the Spanish King…
The wedding dress, the bridal party and
the music to be played were all up for debate as fresh details of
Europe’s biggest royal wedding of the year were shared. With just
over a week to go until Belgium’s Princess Maria Laura marries
William Isvy in Brussels, the plans for both their civil and
religious ceremonies were discussed as the bride’s parents spoke to
the press about…
King Willem-Alexander travelled to the
German border to visit the Ter Apel centre for asylum seekers. His
Majesty arrived in the small town in the northeast of the country
on Wednesday, 31 August, accompanied by the Secretary of State of
Justice and Security. The…
Crown Princess Mary has officially opened
a new UN exhibition, 2030 NOW, to highlight the 17 Sustainable
Development Goals, in Sønderborg. The exhibit aims to show “what
kind of world the UN’s 17 global goals can lead to find we each,
and together, make an effort to…
Crown Princess Mette-Marit has attended a
solemn ceremony in Oslo as ‘memorial stones’ were placed in the
street to commemorate the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The
stones, placed along the Akershusstranda, represent the victims of
Nazism and are set in places where those victims once lived before
their deportation and death. “The passers-by who discover the
stones become aware of…
