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…
A new exhibition has opened about Queen Juliana of the Netherlands that showcases some of the most important moments in her reign through a unique lens.
Her Majesty was a collector of dolls, and, over the course of her life, she received more than six hundred of…
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 had come to share her special day. But this was more than just a royal wedding. Juliana was then heir to the throne of the…
Today marks 15 years since the former Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, the grandmother of the Netherlands’ current monarch, King Willem-Alexander, died after suffering years of ill health at the hands of dementia.
By the mid-1990s, Princess Juliana, who had reverted…
It has been announced that for the second half of February, some more buildings at the Soestdijk Palace will be made available to the public tour.
The three buildings; the stables, garages and servant’s quarters are situated on the opposite side of the Amsterdamsestraatweg…
Today, Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands turns 81-years-old. So we are going to have a little look at who she is and what has happened in her life so far.
Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard was born in 1938 in Soestdijk Palace in Baarn, the Netherlands as the eldest child of the future Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and her husband, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Princess Beatrix was soon…
Wednesday lunchtime this week, King Willem-Alexander was in the Northern part of Groningen where he officially opened the extension of the railway line from Roodeschool to Eemshaven.
The line has been in use since March and is an extension of the Sauwerd-Roodeschool line…
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…
