BelgiumEuropean Royals

Delphine Boël to ask court for former Belgian King's DNA

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25th April 2018
Delphine Boël, the supposed daughter of King Albert II of Belgium, is going to court tomorrow to demand a sample of the former King’s DNA.  She has been fighting to be recognised as his daughter. Her case had been declared inadmissible, but she has appealed this decision. Considering the age of the King, she wishes to preserve the DNA for when her appeal overturns the original decision if…
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Denmark

Queen Margrethe of Denmark's sarcophagus completed

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25th April 2018
Queen Margrethe of Denmark’s sarcophagus has been completed and been placed in Sankt Birgittas Chapel in Roskilde Domkirke. It will be there that she will lay upon her death alongside close to 40 Danish kings and queens going back to the early Middle Ages up to present day – including her parents, King Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid. Construction began in 2003 in what was initially a…
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JapanSweden

Sweden's King and Queen continue Japanese trip alongside Crown Prince Couple

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25th April 2018
Day three is in the books for King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden on their trip to Japan. Their Majesties led separate programmes for the morning before reuniting for events in the afternoon and evening. Yesterday morning, the King attended a business forum while Queen Silvia participated in a conference, organised by Swedish Care International, on dementia where she spoke to those…
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Norway

Norwegian Crown Prince Couple visits Lithuania

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24th April 2018
This week, Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit perform a four-day journey to the Baltic nations to celebrate their 100 years as independent states after they declared themselves independent from Russia in 1918. Yesterday, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess…
Norway

Norway's Royal Palace manager resigns following a serious breach of internal guidelines

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24th April 2018
The manager of the Royal Palace in Oslo, Ragnar Osnes, has chosen to resign his position with immediate effect because of a breach in the Royal Court’s internal guidelines. This was announced Monday evening in a press release from the Norwegian Royal court. In the press release, the Lord Chamberlain of the Norwegian Royal Court, Gry Mølleskog, stated: “This breach of trust is serious, and…
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