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 […]
My articles for Royalty and De Oranjes about royal wedding dresses and the patronage of Dutch mills.
For the Dutch magazine Royalty, issue 7/2024, published early September 2024, I wrote two articles: one about the Austrian imperial family and one about the German city of Weimar. On 22 September 2024 Princess Astrid of Belgium and Archduke Lorenz of Austria, since 1995 also Prince of Belgium, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. In Weimar […]
Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha
For the Dutch magazine Royalty, issue 6/2024, published late July 2024, I wrote an article about the ducal family of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. On 21 July 2024 the Belgian national day was celebrated. Prince Leopold von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha took his oath as King of the Belgians on 21 July 1831. The magazine is sold […]
For the Dutch magazine Royalty, issue 5/2024, published late June 2024, I wrote an article about the grand ducal family of Mecklenburg. On 3 July 2024 it was 90 years ago that Prince Hendrik, the husband of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, passed away. I would like to thank the family zu Mecklenburg-Strelitz for their […]
© Gabi
For the Dutch magazine Royalty, issue 4/2024, published late May 2024, I wrote an article about the royal family of Württemberg. The month of June was the month in which Queen Sophie of the Netherlands, born a Princess of Württemberg, was born, married and died and married. I would have loved another interview, but unfortunately […]
© Netty Leistra
On 8 April 2024 it was 200 years ago since Princess Sophie of the Netherlands, later Grand Duchess von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach – was born. For the Dutch magazine Royalty, issue 3/2024 I wrote an article on this occasion with the title “Groothertogin Sophie speelt een zeer belangrijke rol in mijn leven” (Grand Duchess Sophie plays a […]
© Netty Leistra/Residenzschloss Arolsen
Waldeck-Pyrmont – My article in Royalty
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 […]
Amalienborg
The Dutch magazine Royalty, issue 1/2024, of course paid a lot of attention to the succession of the throne in Denmark. I wrote an article for it with the title “Negen x Koning Frederik” (Nine x King Frederik), which was a portrait of the previous kings of Denmark with the name Frederik. I previously wrote […]
