Luxembourg

Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume tests positive for Covid

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11th January 2022
The Grand Ducal Court has announced that Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume tested positive for Covid-19. The news comes a week after his father, Grand Duke Henri, was confirmed to have the virus.The Crown Prince self-isolated following a positive self-test and then confirmed his diagnosis with a PCR test. According to the Grand Ducal Court, the 40-year-old heir to the throne is symptom-free and…
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Denmark

New dates for Queen Margarethe's Golden Jubilee celebrations revealed

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11th January 2022
After announcing that, due to an increase in the number of coronavirus cases, many of the major public events of Queen Margarethe’s Golden Jubilee were to be postponed, the Danish Royal Household has released a new timeline for the celebrations. The events were supposed to take place in mid-January, around the date of her father’s death and her subsequent ascension to the throne (which…
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DenmarkFeatures

Margrethe: the Queen who gave up titles

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11th January 2022
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark represented a milestone in the country’s life from a very early age and in more ways than one. First of all, she was the first woman to become Queen since the change of the succession law that allowed her to become the heir presumptive, pushing back her uncle, Prince Knud. But she was also the first monarch in Danish history to renounce all titles upon…
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