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 […]
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The past one and a half week haven’t been the best for royalty watchers. The Princess of Wales had photoshopped the photo of her with her children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis that was released on Mother’s Day, Sunday 10 March 2024. Kate herself confessed the next day after receiving a lot of […]
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Vanaf woensdag 31 januari 2024, 20.30 uur toont de Nederlandse tv-zender NPO 1 een nieuwe serie over de geschiedenis van het Huis Oranje-Nassau. De achtdelige serie heet: “Het verhaal van Nederland: Oranje Nassau. Een nieuwe geschiedenis van Nederland en het koningshuis”. Het bijbehorende boek, geschreven door Dorine Hermans en Marchien den Hertog, landde eerder al […]
If you are still waiting for the reply of the Dutch royal family on the occasion of Christmas 2022, or one of the birthdays or other occasions in 2023, you unfortunately wait in vain. When Wills, a Dutch royal fan and owner of the website Koningsfan.nl, recently inquired at the Government Information Service, she received […]
