Today the civil wedding of Prince Ernst August von Hannover Jr and Ekaterina Malysheva will take place in the New City Hall (Neues Rathaus) in Hannover, Germany. An impressive building I visited three years ago. It is a mighty building which rather looks like a castle as a city hall. The designer was Hermann Eggert, […]
The weather was a bit better than during his funeral – when there was a thunderstorm – but still it was raining when I searched for traces of Lodewijk Thomson here in Groningen, The Netherlands, today. I accidentally had to bring something to that part of town and I decided to bring my small camera […]
Buckingham Palace
Remember my visit in May 2016 to Legoland in Billund, Denmark? This year me and the same two friends visited Legoland in Windsor, Great Britain (see also Royal Lego in Windsor and London). It was very nice, but somewhat of a disappointment after Billund, which is bigger and has more royal buildings. We especially missed […]
Once again I went on vacation with my friends Erik and Mirjam. We stayed in London during the first five days of May 2017. Of course we were keen on seeing Legoland in Windsor too, after having visited Legoland Billund in Denmark last year. Tuesday May 2nd turned out to be the best day of […]
Buckingham Palace
Some weeks before leaving for my five-day vacation to London I discovered an interesting royal walk through London on the Internet: In the Footsteps of Queen Wilhelmina (in Dutch). A walk of about six kilometers from Sloane Square tube station to Marble Arch. On my fourth day I had some time left and gave it […]
How many streets do you know that have the name of a royal? There is hardly a city or village in the Netherlands without streets named after either modern or historical royals. Leeuwarden, once a royal residence until far in the 18th century, has lots of these streets. But one name was missing in the […]
If you leave the railway station of Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, this statue is about the first thing you see. A silhouette of two people kissing each other up in the air. Easy to pass when you don’t know a bit more about its history. But it has very much to do with the person, who […]
On 10 January 1967 Princess Margriet of the Netherlands married Pieter van Vollenhoven. In its stables Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, presents the State Glass Berline that was used on this occasion from 10 January 2017 to 4 June 2017. The carriage is still in use, like on Prince’s Day, the third Tuesday […]
Some weeks a friend and I visited the Diamond Museum in Amsterdam. From royalty-watchers I had heard that it was great. The museum is located in a 17th century villa between the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum and was rather easy to find. The only European Diamond Museum (at the moment as Antwerpen will […]
Just over 200 years ago the new King Willem I of the Netherlands wished for himself a royal barge, at the time a ‘must have’ if you were a European monarch. The 21-year-old architect Cornelis Jan Glavimans designed the barge and between 1816 and 1818 the royal barge was constructed at the Navy shipyard in […]
