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The year 2023 ended with a royal bang. Shocked, NettyRoyal’s royal cat Daisy announces that her namesake Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, also known as Daisy, has indicated in her New Year Address 2023 on New Year’s Eve that she will abdicate on Sunday, 14 January 2024. Together with the Danish people, NettyRoyal and royal […]
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Much less visitors for NettyRoyal in 2023, but I can’t say I have been very active myself. Here is the top 10 of posts in 2023:
At the end of a year it is always fun to see what you achieved. There are apps that let you see which nine Instagram posts were doing best. NettyRoyal received 4k likes in 2023 to 88 posts, which is an average of 45 likes per post. That’s 6% of 768 followers liking my posts […]
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His 100th birthday on 9 December 2023 was celebrated with his family. Christian Fürst zu Bentheim und Steinfurt, according to a spokesperson for the family, was doing quite well for his advanced age. Also the media paid attention to this special day. However, only three days later, on 12 December 2023, one of the eldest […]
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For more new books about royalty see: BELGIUM Title: Judith, de eerste gravin van VlaanderenAuthor: Karen DierickxPublication date: 18 October 2023Publisher: Pelckmans uitgeverijLanguage: Dutch FRANCE Title: Louise de Savoie, Régente et mère du roiAuthor: Aubrée David-ChapyPublication date: 11 October 2023Publisher: Passes ComposesLanguage: French FRANCE Title: Le Grand Condé. Les secrets d’un hérosAuthor: Béatrix de L’AulnoitPublication […]
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For more new books about royalty see: AUSTRIA Title: Sisi – Das geheime Leben der KaiserinAuthor: Katrin UnterreinerPublication date: 11 September 2023Publisher: Carl Ueberreuter VerlagLanguage: German BELGIUM Title: Onze koningen: Interview met de geschiedenis – Het Belgische koningshuisAuthors: Arnout Hauben and Katrien de GroefPublication date: 1 September 2023Publisher:Language: Dutch FRANCE (Napoléon) Title: “Sur les bords […]
I am wishing you all: Merry Christmas& Happy & Royal 2024 It has been an interesting year with my 50th birthday, the 25th wedding anniversary of NettyRoyal and a royal wedding in Portugal. I continue working as a freelance royalty journalist for the Danish press agency dana press photo a/s. Also two of my articles […]
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My wedding photos have been in a Flickr album for ages already, and I posted the link on social media, but not yet on my blog. As you might know, I nearly spent a week in and around Lisbon, Portugal, early October 2023. My 50th birthday two weeks earlier, and the royal wedding of Dona […]
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With Twitter slowly dying (I refuse calling the platform X), because of a lot of decisions by Elon Musk, I am among the many people, that try to find another way of keeping in touch with royalty watchers and fellow journalists. Mastodon didn’t really work for me, BlueSky is a bit better and I found […]
