On Friday, Queen Emerita Sofìa of Spain
was at Teatro Monumental in Madrid to watch a concert featuring the
debut of the winning composition and to hand out a music prize
bearing her name. Her Majesty, who is still a member of The
Royal Family, despite her husband’s abdication and self-imposed
exile to Dubai, has presided over the Doña Sofìa music prize since
its creation almost 40 years…
King Felipe of Spain received the
coronavirus vaccine on Saturday according to official palace
sources. His Majesty received his jab in the Wizink Centre in
the Spanish capital of Madrid. This came shortly after the
conclusion of the National Armed Forces Day events, in…
On Friday, May 28, King Philippe took
part in the kickstarting of the field hockey summer season in
preparation for the Tokyo Olympic Games, due to start towards the
end of July. His Majesty gave the symbolic “first bat” on the
hockey field to start an intensive…
The Princess of Asturias receives her confirmation weeks before she heads to Wales to study
29th May 2021
On Friday, May 28, HRH the Princess of
Asturias received her confirmation in Madrid, at the Nuestra Señora
de la Asunción church, with all the rest of her classmates. For her
First Holy Communion, which took place in May of 2015, she was
surrounded by her entire family, including both sets of
grandparents. On this occasion, however, restrictions due to the
CoViD-19 pandemic made it…
King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain
took part in the celebrations for National Armed Forces Day, which
this year fell on Saturday, the 29th of May 2021. The main event, a
military parade, was severely restricted due to Government
restrictions in connection to the ongoing…
Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau has
co-wrote an impassioned letter to British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson about a cause close to her heart. The 52-year-old, who is
sister-in-law to King Willem-Alexander, wrote to Mr Johnson
and other G7 leaders urging for there to be a…
Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia of
Sweden will be absent from this year’s National Day celebrations on
6 June. Only King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia, Crown Princess
Victoria and Prince Daniel will participate in the scaled-down
celebrations. The Royal Court released information regarding this
year’s National Day on Friday, noting that it would be scaled-down
due to the…
Queen Mathilde of the Belgians visited an
organic shop in Jette, Belgium, on Thursday in her role as an
advocate for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The Queen
travelled to The Barn that sells mostly packaging-free products and
spoke to spoke to one of the…
In a new interview this week with the
Norwegian state TV-channel NRK, Queen Sonja opens up about her
thoughts on art and not least her own art. Queen Sonja is
passionate about art, both as an art collector and as a performing
artist. The Queen has been apprenticed to the…
Princess Amalia of the Netherlands, the
eldest child of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima, is busy
with her final exams like many other Dutch students. The
17-year-old Princess of Orange began her exams on Monday and will
find out on 10 June if she passed. Her parents were at the National
Park Maasduinen for an engagement, and the King was asked how his
daughter was doing with her…
