Last week I really started to feel old. Someone posted an article on Twitter with the title “Remember When Prince William Was a Superhot Teen Idol?” Yes, I do remember, but at the time I was already too old to actually have a crush on him, and I probably would have gone for his brother […]
There are probably many countries in the world where the national anthem plays a much bigger role than in the Netherlands. Last week the Dutch politician Sybrand van Haersma Buma (leader of the Christian democrats) said that Dutch children should learn the national anthem again at their schools, and that they should do that standing. […]
More and more royals marry commoners instead of royals or nobles, as it was the case in the old days when you had to marry within your own circle. That however doesn’t mean that these commoners are not well connected. Recently a few other genealogists and I found an interesting family connection between Princess Marie […]
Names, especially first names, have always fascinated me. No idea why, but probably it had something to do with the fact that I myself received a rather old-fashioned name. Netty is the call name of my maternal grandmother, who wrote the name as Nettie herself. My parents thought with a ‘y’ it would look a […]
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Accidentally I found a recipe for a royal dessert, and thought it would be fun to collect some links to recipes here. Over the centuries lots of food was named after royals or is regarded as the favourite dish of a royal. How did I end up with so much cakes and desserts! Just have […]
Part of the Lego collection of my good friend Erik has moved to the Legio-Museum in Grootegast until the end of the year 2016. “My” Lego version, including camera, has moved there too to cover the visit of Lego King Willem-Alexander and Lego Queen Máxima to the place, even dressed up for the occasion in […]
Several royal couples received their own official wedding song when they got married. I might well have missed a few, but here are some official ones. Starting with Willem-Alexander, The Prince of Orange, and Máxima Zorreguieta in 2002. No, the song wasn’t “Adiós Nonino” performed by Carel Kraayenhof. The national -yes national – wedding song […]
Can you name an artist (singer, musician, group) you discovered via your love for royals? If there is one I should name it is the Norwegian singer Sissel Kyrkjebø. The first time I heard her music it was during the wedding ceremony of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and Ari Behn. A sad song actually, […]
Looking at myself I become pretty bored when I hear and read too much about one particular royal house. When I started learning about royals most information I could get – mainly from the gossip magazines here in the country – was about the Dutch, British royal family and the princely family of Monaco. Since […]
Just a nice joke of that friend of mine who is crazy about lego. He recently placed a couple in front of the municipality hall of Zuidlaren – he is building the nicest buildings in the village in lego (see Zuidlaren in Bricks). They are supposed to be King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the […]
