Spain

Business as usual for Spain's royals as family marriage breakdown hits headlines

Spain’s biggest royal headlines over the past few days reached their peak when Infanta Cristina and Iñaki Urdangarín announced their separation with a short statement released to EFE, Spain’s national news agency.  The announcement, on January 24th 2022, came at the start of a busy week for Spain’s royals. As the news broke, King Felipe was already on his way to Puerto Rico, where…
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Serbia

Serbia's royals in mourning

The Serbian royal family is in mourning after recent death of the influential Orthodox bishop Sabac Lavrentije. The Serbian royal family issued a statement after the death of the holy patriarch, with Crown Prince Alexander writing: “With great sadness I have received the news that our dear friend, His Grace Bishop Lavrentije died yesterday. My wife and I are both struck by this horrible…
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Belgium

Princess Delphine in mourning after the man she once assumed to be her father dies

Jacques Boël, the man who Princess Delphine grew up with, and for many years assumed to be her biological father, has died at the age of 92. Mr Boël was legally recognised as Delphine’s father until King Albert conceded his paternity of her in 2020. Princess Delphine grew up believing that Jacques Boël was her father, even though her mother, Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, had…
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