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The demise of social media
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The demise of social media

For a royalty watcher or journalist, social media, especially Twitter – nowadays X – were a source of information for many years. It was the place where you could find daily royal news from around the world, often even only a few minutes after something was announced. Nowadays, that’s a lot less and that’s actually […]

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Royal Houses section updated
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Royal Houses section updated

It had been a while since I updated the Royal Houses section. With the latest changes of throne in Denmark and Malaysia, it was about time to do something about it. It turned out most pages hadn’t been updated since 2020. I only didn’t have a look at the links at the bottom. Lately I […]

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Instagram Top Nine 2023
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Instagram Top Nine 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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Season’s Greetings
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Season’s Greetings

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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25 years NettyRoyal
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25 years NettyRoyal

When I started my website 25 years ago, on 26 October 1998, I could never have imagined the site still existing so many years later. But here we are in 2023 and NettyRoyal – or Netty’s Royalty Blog as it was known at first – is still there, even if there have been quite a […]

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New website: On Tour with NettyRoyal
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New website: On Tour with NettyRoyal

As I recently announced, I was working on a new website. I finally published On Tour with NettyRoyal online on 14 February 2023. It will not replace this website, but will contain a lot of my royal travelling reports, news about royal palaces, books about royal palaces and castles, activities and exhibitions, visits of royals […]

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Hell of a week When you're being used as test object.
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Hell of a week

Few posts this year on the blog thus far, which has several reasons. After a few lovely quiet days, the royal year 2023 really started off, when on Thursday 5 January the new book by Prince Harry, “Spare”, was sold already five days earlier than planned. Hell broke loose. Thousands and thousands of articles were […]

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