The King of Spain has held a series of
meetings with politicians as news of the exile of his father, Juan
Carlos, continues to dominate the country’s media. Felipe VI
welcomed political leaders from the Balearic Islands to his home in
Mallorca as his stay there got officially under way. King Felipe
held a series of audiences on August 10th at the Royal Palace of
Almudaina in Palma de…
Images of King Juan Carlos and King
Felipe of Spain were set alight at the weekend as a protest against
the country’s monarchy took place in Madrid. The gathering, which
involved several hundred people, came as a new poll for a newspaper
showed most people are against…
Less than a week after he announced his
decision to leave Spain, King Juan Carlos is all the country wants
to talk about. The former monarch announced he was going into exile
on August 3rd 2020, having already departed, quite possibly in the
hope that by going he would take…
The details of the last will of the late
Princess Lilian of Sweden are once again being debated by the
country’s press. And the details show that siblings Crown Princess
Victoria, Prince Carl Philip and Princess Madeleine were treated
very differently by their aunt when it came to inheritance.
Princess Lilian died in 2013, at the age of 97, in her home, Villa
Solbacken on Djurgården in…
Tessy Antony de Nassau has received the
Freedom of the City of London award by the Clerk of the Mayor of
the City. She was presented the award on Friday, 7 August, at a
late-morning ceremony conducted over Zoom due to the ongoing
pandemic. Part of the ceremony consisted…
King Felipe VI of Spain has arrived in
Mallorca for his annual summer holiday. Felipe, along with Queen
Letizia and their two daughters, was spotted driving into the
Marivent Palace on the island where they traditionally spend part
of August. The stay is usually a relaxed…
Following the exile of Spain’s former
monarch King Juan Carlos, some royal commentators are questioning
whether the honours awarded to him by Queen Elizabeth II may be
rescinded. As reported in the Daily Mail, Juan Carlos has been
honoured both with the Royal Victorian Chain and is also a
Stranger Knight of the Order of
the Garter. However, if Juan Carlos one day returns to Spain…
Countess Alexandra of Frederiksborg,
former wife of Prince Joachim of Denmark, has expressed her support
to her former husband following his recently illness. In a
statement to the Danish magazine “Billedbladet” she says that she
and the two sons she has with Prince…
European and African monarchs join Queen Elizabeth and King Abdullah in sending condolences to Lebanon
6th August 2020
Monarchs from across Europe, Africa and
the Middle East have joined Queen Elizabeth II and Jordan’s King
Abdullah in sending condolences to Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun
after the explosion that left massive devastation in Beirut on
Tuesday. King…
Several Spanish newspapers are reporting
that King Juan Carlos I has arrived in the Caribbean nation of the
Dominican Republic. The former monarch left Spain on Sunday,
shortly before an official announcement that he was to go into
exile. Several media sources have reported that Juan Carlos left
Spain via Portugal. The Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia is now
reporting that, during the weekend…
