King Frederik and Queen Mary hosted the first New Year’s banquet of their reign and the new consort certainly made a sartorial statement for the milestone. She wore gems that form part of Denmark’s Crown Jewels for the event.
Denmark front and centre
Queen Mary chose to represent Danish design with her gown. Her deep green dress, by Birgit Hallstein, features a lace decolletage and…
King Harald says his family has been 'put to the test' in New Year's speech
31st December 2024
It hasn’t been an easy year for the Norwegian Royal Family—to put it mildly—and King Harald addressed the controversies up front in his annual New Year’s Eve speech, saying that the royals “have been truly put to the test” this year.
But while there have been…
Beginnings, endings and a few nerves mark the first New Year's speech of King Frederik X of Denmark
31st December 2024
The King of Denmark said out loud what a lot of his subjects were thinking as he delivered the royal New Year’s address for the first time – can anyone other than Queen Margrethe actually make the speech? It turned out that the answer was yes even though the new…
Princess Anne ends 2024 as the hardest working royal – as always. The Princess Royal has topped the engagements count for the year just gone and that’s despite an enforced rest after a serious accident left her in hospital for days with concussion and head injuries. It’s been another packed twelve months for the Princess and her family.
First royal overseas trip of…
When the Prince of Wales declares that 2024 has been the hardest year of his life, you sit back and take stock of just what that means. With his father and his wife both dealing with their own health scares, it fell to Prince William and Queen Camilla to lead the Royal…
To hark back to an infamous speech once given by Queen Elizabeth II, I don’t imagine that 2024 will be a year that any Norwegian royal looks back on “with undiluted pleasure.” From King Harald falling gravely ill abroad to all the controversies and legal issues…
After a year of difficulties, what will 2025 bring for the Royal Family?
29th December 2024
It has been a difficult year for the Royal Family with serious health issues for King Charles and the Princess of Wales. That left room for other royals to step up and show their support as well as take on new roles and that is something we could continue to see in the new year.
The shape of the year to come
What does 2025 look like? Well, it’s hard to say as it will depend on The…
On the eve of 2024, Queen Margrethe announced her abdication and two weeks into the new year, a new king was installed. From there, King Frederik and Queen Mary spent the year cementing their positions and we watched as a reign began.
Here are 10 of the biggest moments…
How to narrow down all of the exciting tiara appearances this year into five choices? It was hard work but these are the ones I can’t stop thinking about!
Queen Camilla expands her tiara collection. Again.
One thing can’t be said about Queen Camilla? She doesn’t…
How Queen Camilla became the cornerstone of the Royal Family in 2024
28th December 2024
While the royals themselves haven’t referred to this past year as an ‘Annus Horribilis’ publicly, royal watchers the world over seemed poised to at many moments. From King Charles’s cancer diagnosis to that of the Princess of Wales’s, personal turmoil and other health challenges, it’s not been an easy year for the Royal Family. But through it all, Queen Camilla has kept her head up and…
