Denmark

A look back at the Danish royal year

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29th December 2021
JanuaryQueen Margrethe began the New Year with a poignant speech, urging us all to “Not lose heart” over the ongoing pandemic.As the Danish Royal Family is renowned for their New Year’s and New Year’s Eve events, the team here at Royal Central looked back at the New Year’s fashions of Queen Margrethe, Crown Princess Mary, and Princess Marie. We also looked back on past New…
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Norway

A look back at the Norwegian royal year

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29th December 2021
JanuaryKing Harald set the tone for the year with his New Year’s Eve speech, noting: “The hope will carry us all into 2021.”Sadly, 2021 began on a sad note for the Norwegian Royal Family. They paid a visit to Gjerdrum, the site of a devastating landslide…
Monaco

An annus horribilis in Monaco? A difficult year for Albert and Charlene finally winds to an end

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28th December 2021
As the year approaches its end, everyone takes a look back to evaluate successes and failures, happy and difficult moments and reflects on the events that have marked the times now gone. Royal families are now different. And for the small Principality of Monaco, 2021 was an undoubtedly difficult year,marked significantly by the prolonged absence of Princess Charlene which became worldwide…
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The Netherlands

Dutch Prime Minister weighs in on monarch's role in government formation

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27th December 2021
Outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has weighed in once again on his ideas about the role a monarch should play in forming a new government. During his Christmas interview to newspaper De Telegraaf, Mr Rutte was asked about the current transition between this government and the next one. This transition has been going on for the past nine months, since the closure of the electoral…
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Sweden

Crown Princess Victoria partakes in special televised reading for Christmas

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25th December 2021
Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden took part in a televised greeting on SVT on Christmas Eve for the Swedish people.The Crown Princess of Sweden read from the Gospel of Luke from the Royal Chapel of Stockholm Palace.Victoria read Luke 2: 1-20 from the Bible, which tells the story of the birth of Jesus Christ in a manger in Bethlehem.The passage says: In those days Caesar…
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