This month, King Harald and Queen Sonja
of Norway celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. The then
Crown Prince of Norway married Sonja Haraldsen on 29 August1968 at
Oslo Cathedral. Their wedding, attended by royalty from around
Europe, came five months after the announcement of their engagement
which was marked by Harald presenting his bride with a diamond and
ruby ring with a very…
On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel
Macron and his wife, Brigitte started their two-day state visit to
Denmark, the first state visit by a French President to Denmark
since 1982. The beginning of the visit was delayed by the French
President’s team as France’s…
Today marks 50 years since then Crown
Prince Harald married Sonja Haraldsen, and she became Crown
Princess of Norway. The day will be celebrated today with a
service in the same church as the wedding took place 50 years ago.
However, you could not have a proper royal…
Princess Elisabeth of Belgium, Duchess of
Brabant headed off to Wales to begin college yesterday at the
United World College (UWC) Atlantic College in the Vale of
Glamorgan. The Belgian Royal Palace posted two images of the future
Queen of the Belgians on their Twitter account saying, “Leaving for
@UWCAtlantic college! #BackToSchool2018.” One image was just of
16-year-old Elisabeth…
Prince Nikolai William Alexander Frederik
was born on 28 August 1999 at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen to
Prince Joachim and his first wife, Alexandra, Countess of
Frederiksborg. Formally styled as His Highness Prince Nikolai of
Denmark, Count of Monpezat, Nikolai is the…
The Belgian Royal Palace announced at the
end of last week that Princess Astrid would lead an economic
mission to Morocco in November. The mission will run from the 25th
to the 30th of November and visit the Moroccan cities of Rabat,
Tangier and Casablanca. She will be…
Princess Sofia of Sweden took part in
the Tough Viking obstacle course race alongside her sisters,
Lina and Sara this past weekend. The 15-kilometre course was at
Djurgården in Stockholm. The Swedish Royal Court’s Director of
the Information and Press Department, Margareta Thorgren told
Svenskdam, “Princess Sofia conducted Tough Viking weekend privately
with her two…
On Sunday, the Danish Crown Prince’s
family ended their four-day visit to the Faroe Islands. The
four-day long visit to the Faroe Islands lasted from Thursday until
yesterday, and the royal yacht “Dannebrog” was used during the
official visit. This was the first…
Crown Prince Haakon attended the International Conference of Offshore in the Northern Sea
27th August 2018
On Monday, His Royal Highness Crown
Prince Haakon of Norway attended the opening ceremony and visited
several of the exhibitors when the International Conference of
Offshore in the Northern Sea (ONS) opened in Stavanger. Before the
opening ceremony, the Crown Prince received…
This last week, Princess Beatrix opened
an exhibition of sculptures at House Doorn near Utrecht. The
exhibition is entitled “Resistance and Sadness in the picture” and
features work from Germany and the Netherlands – the former
representing links with World War I and the latter with World War
II. During WWI, Holland was actually a neutral country and at the
end of the war Kaiser Wilhelm II…
