A Romanian news site reports that former
King Michael I of Romania is among those on a list of 187,000 names
of the country’s biggest individual debtors to the state. He is
liable for tax of 4.1 Romanian Leu, around €910,000 or
£697,000. The list was published by the National Fiscal
Administration Agency, who states that the liabilities relate to
overdue of tax, as of 16 March 2016. The…
When Sweden’s Prince Oscar was born this
March, he was granted the title of the Duke of Skåne by his
maternal grandfather, King Carl XVI Gustaf. Now, in time for his
christening, the residents of his Duchy have planned a lovely gift
for the third-in-line to the…
Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg,
recently spoke with Danish newspaper BT about her quick divorce
from second husband Martin Jørgensen revealing he was not her true
love. “I was quick and confident in my decision. I have not
wavered. When it was taken, I was ready to…
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark was among
the speakers at the Opening Ceremony of the Women Deliver
Conference in Copenhagen yesterday. The Crown Princess spoke about
how she was inspired to take up the cause of women’s rights seven
years ago, when someone from Chad told her that in their country
“when a woman gives birth she has one foot in the grave.” “That 300
000 women…
On Thursday, Queen Sonja opened an
exhibition of glass art called “Smakebiter” in the Queen Josephine
Gallery in the Oscarshall in Bygdøy, Western Norway. Included
within the exhibition are exhibits from the Queen’s personal
collection of glassware. The Queen…
The Swedish Royal Court has released
several new photos of Prince Alexander of Sweden with his parents
for Prince Carl-Philip’s 37th birthday and to give thanks for all
the well wishes. The photos are accompanied by a personal thank you
for the proud parents, “We…
Eneko Gogeaskoetxea Arronategui has been
sentenced to 92 years in prison by the Spanish national court for
his part in a failed plot to assassinate Spain’s former king, Juan
Carlos I. Gogeaskoetxea, a member of the Basque separatist group
Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), plotted with another group member to
kill Juan Carlos with grenades at the opening of Bilbao’s
Guggenheim Museum on 18 October…
In the second edition of “Who Is?”,
Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau is the focus. She was
born Mabel Martine Los on 11 August 1968 to Hendrik Los
and Florence Kooman in Pijnacker, Netherlands. The Princess
has three sisters, in which the youngest two are from…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of
the Netherlands attended the Remembrance Day commemoration on Dam
Square, opposite the Royal Palace in Amsterdam. Remembrance Day is
the day before the official liberation day in the Netherlands and
used to commemorate only the Dutch…
Norway was in mourning this weekend,
following the tragic helicopter crash off the coast of Bergen, the
country’s second largest city, on Friday. The Airbus EC-225
helicopter had been ferrying staff from an offshore Statoil rig in
the Gullfaks B oilfield before the crash killed all 13
people on board. On Saturday, a sombre Norwegian Prime
Minister, Erna Solberg, accompanied by Crown Prince…
