From Friday evening 11 October to Sunday 13 October 2024, an international conference on the history of the European Princely/Royal Houses will take place in Leeuwarden’s historic Town Hall. The meeting is in the regal ambience of the Orange Hall. The Nassau and Friesland Foundation invites you to attend this weekend as a guest! We’ll […]
From Farmsum to Stockholm – Occa Ripperda
This year thus far has been rather hectic, with a new website to develop, another yet private project to finish, my work, knee problems and a cat that needed surgery. It thus was really a treat that I unexpectedly could join John from Adel in Nederland to a very special evening at nearby Landgoed Nienoord […]
25 years Stichting Nassau en Friesland
The Stichting Nassau en Friesland (Nassau and Friesland Foundation) has been organizing activities in the Dutch province of Friesland already for 25 years. Together with partners like the Fries Museum, Fryske Akademy and Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden they also publish. Yearly at least two lectures, three city walks and concerts are being organized, and in special […]
Royal Gatherings 2022 in London
This year’s Royal Gatherings in London conference will take place on Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th May 2022. As usual it will take place at Spink (67-69 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, London, WC1B 4ET), but it will be on the ground floor & not in the auction room downstairs. The speakers are: Saturday Hugo Vickers “A […]
UPDATE! Royal Gatherings 2020 in London
Royal Gatherings in London has been postponed because of Corona/Covid-19. This year’s Royal Gatherings in London will take place on 18th & 19th April 2020. Please put the dates in your diary. As usual it will take place in the auction room of Spink at 67-69 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, London. The cost in […]
Updated 1-11: 2019 Royal Gatherings in The Hague
Royal Gatherings The Hague will once again be organized in the weekend of November 9 & 10, 2019 at the Park Hotel in the Molenstraat (near the Noordeinde Palace). The day starts at 9.45am. Presentations include various royal topics: Arturo Beéche: -The Grand Ducal House of Hesse und bei Rhein Robert Golden: -Royal Funerals in […]
Marie zu Wied – Lecture Stichting Nassau en Friesland on 13 November
Daar U het eenigste overgebleven familielid van mijn Huis zijt..! As you are the only remaining family member of my house..! Bearn Bilker over Marie Vorstin van Wied, Prinses der Nederlanden (1841-1910) Bearn Bilker about Princess Marie zu Wied, Princess of the Netherlands (1841-1910) De Nassaulezing van Stichting Nassau en Friesland op woensdag 13 november […]
Historical dinner with the Frisian nobility
Update 22 April – it is sold out! Do you have nothing to do on Friday 26 April 2019, you live nearby and you like good food and interesting company? At the 185-year-old Hotel Tjaarda Oranjewoud, near Heerenveen in the Netherlands, a historical four course-dinner is to take place that evening. There still seem to […]
UPDATE Royal Gatherings in London – April 2019
On 27 and 28 April 2019 the 2019 London Royal Gatherings will take place at SPINK in Bloomsbury, London. The following speakers have been confirmed: Stephen Patterson – “This Thorny Throne” – Russia, Royalty & the Romanovs Jeffrey Hyland – Government Houses and the Royal Family Colin Parrish – Frederica, Duchess of York – a […]
UPDATE 18-11! 6th Royal Gatherings in The Hague
The European Royal History Journal and Van Hoogstraten for the sixth time (or was it the fifth time?) organized the conference Royal Gatherings in The Hague, The Netherlands, this year. The location was again the Park Hotel in the Molenstraat. The dates were Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 November 2018. Exactly 100 years after the […]