Many people are used to thinking about
members of royal families as people with immense privilege and a
life free from pain and suffering. However, this was far from the
truth for King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. Born Prince Carl Gustaf
Folke Hubertus on 30 April 1946, he was the last child and only son
of Prince Gustaf Adolf and Princess Sybilla. On 26 January 1947,
Prince Gustaf…
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands has
made her way back to the land where she was born for a visit that
was supposed to happen in 2020, coinciding with the 75th
anniversary of Canada’s independence. Her Royal Highness and her
husband, Prof Pieter van…
On a cold, January day in 1937, a happy
young couple stepped out into the chilly air to make royal history.
Princess Juliana of the Netherlands married Prince Bernhard of
Lippe-Biesterfeld before a royal guest list and surrounded by
thousands of her fellow Dutch citizens who…
Princess Irene, sister of former Queen
Beatrix and aunt to current King Willem-Alexander of the
Netherlands, is “deeply hurt” by the content of the new biography
on her mother, Queen Juliana, which was accompanied by a TV
documentary. She spoke on NPO Radio 2, “I find it to be a shocking
book. It really hurt me”. The new Dutch-language biography of Queen
Juliana (Juliana…
