The Queen of Spain has given a stark
assessment of what awaits her elder daughter in the future. On a
visit to Son Roca in Mallorca earlier this week, Princess Leonor
was asked by another teenager what she would like to do when she is
older. The heir to the throne hadn’t answered before her mother
intervened to say ”what she has to do, not what she wants to do.”
The remark…
A new special book about King Harald will
be published this autumn, and the King of Norway himself
contributed much to the upcoming book. Former newspaper-editor
Harald Stanghelle is the author of the book, and beforehand, he had
not thought that the King would want to be…
Details of Prince Sverre Magnus’
confirmation into the Norwegian church has been revealed in a short
statement from the Royal Court on Thursday morning. The Prince will
be confirmed on Saturday 5 September 2020. Sverre Magnus has this
year followed the confirmation…
On Friday last week, Catalonia’s regional
parliament in Barcelona passed a motion condemning the monarchy in
the wake of Spain’s former king Juan Carlos going in exile. The
bill will have no practical significance and is to be regarded
mostly as a political move in the struggle for Catalan
independence. The passing of the bill takes place at the same time
as polling’s show that…
King Felipe VI has held a formal meeting
with the country’s Prime Minister for the first time since news of
the exile of former monarch, Juan Carlos, broke. The two men had an
audience at the Marivent Palace in Mallorca where Felipe VI is
spending ten days with his…
Prince Joachim of Denmark has been seen
for the first time since undergoing emergency surgery for a blood
clot on his brain last month. The prince was photographed with his
older brother, Crown Prince Frederik, who has spent several days in
France with Joachim and his…
The summer is in full swing but the
Swedish Royal Family is getting back to work. This week, Prince
Carl Philip of Sweden attended the digital opening of the nature
photo exhibition “Royal National City Park – 25 Years”. The
exhibition, with 28 curated photographs, will be on show in
Stockholm until 13 September 2020. In a two-minute long video, the
prince opened the…
The heir to the throne of Spain and her
sister have been out and about in Mallorca for the second time in
two days for an engagement focused on young poeple. Princess
Leonor, 14, and Infanta Sofia, 13, visited the Naum Socioeducative
Centre run by the Sisters of Charity…
A new poll has shown a growth in support
for King Felipe VI of Spain in the days following the announcement
that his father, King Juan Carlos, was going into exile. The
survey, for the paper El Espanol, gives Felipe an approval rating
of 64% among those asked with 29% who…
Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau was born
Mabel Martine Los on 11 August 1968 to Hendrik Los and Florence
Kooman in Pijnacker, Netherlands. When she was nine, her father
passed away, leaving her mother, Mabel and her sister. Eventually,
her mother remarried to Peter Wisse Smit and had two more girls.
Mabel and her sister took their stepfather’s surname and grew up in
Het Gooi…
