There are many magazines and TV-channels that sometimes report about the royals in the world. There are however just very few specialized magazines, not surprisingly they are almost all published in monarchies. But which specialized magazines are around? Unfortunately apart from some English language magazines, most of them are only available in the country itself. […]
During my March 2019 visit to Windsor I of course wanted to have a look at the Long Walk. Me and the friend who accompanied me were too tired for a long walk after our Windsor Castle visit. However we were quite interested to see whether we could see Frogmore Cottage, the future house of […]
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The way magazines and newspapers report about royal families online, especially in the United Kingdom, gets more and more irritating. Royalty seems to be a kind of theme everybody has an opinion about, yet it isn’t exactly easy to actually understand royal families and monarchies. One has the royal correspondents, royal journalists, royal photographers and […]
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For more new books about royalty see: BELGIUM Title: Filip & Mathilde 7 – Royal FloshAuthor: Charel CambréPublication date: 17 February 2023Publisher: Uitgeverij IndrukLanguage: Dutch CASTLES Title: Politics and the English Country House, 1688-1800Editors: Joan Coutu, Jon Stobart and Peter N. LindfieldPublication date: 15 February 2023Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University PressLanguage: English ETHIOPIA Title: The Prince and […]
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For more new books about royalty see: BELGIUM Title: De macht van Mathilde. De ware impact van de Koningin der Belgen (Mathilde’s power. The true impact of the Queen of the Belgians)Author: Jo De PoorterPublication date: 3 January 2023Publisher: PelckmansLanguage: Dutch FRANCE (Nobility) Title: Très chères baronnes de Rothschild (Dear Baronesses de Rothschild)Author: Nadine de […]
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Few posts this year on the blog thus far, which has several reasons. After a few lovely quiet days, the royal year 2023 really started off, when on Thursday 5 January the new book by Prince Harry, “Spare”, was sold already five days earlier than planned. Hell broke loose. Thousands and thousands of articles were […]
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Last modified: 7 January 2023 1 December The sapphire tiara of Princess Thyra of Denmark and other royal jewellery were sold at auction at Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, Denmark, today. The tiara, that last belonged to Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, was sold for 650.000 DKK, her art deco bracelet with emeralds and diamonds fetched 700.000 DKK. […]
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Last modified: 28 November 2022 1 November It was announced on Monday that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia is the second largest shareholder of Twitter, after the owner Elon Musk. He and his company Kingdom Holding own approximately 4% of Twitter. The General Industries Workers’s Union in South Africa has called […]
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Honestly I think it is time for Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, to stop trying to convince the media of their side of the story, as that will probably never happen. With a Netflix-documentary and a new book to arrive soon, it seems they are not […]
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In some places the Christmas fun has already started. In the last days several Christmas fairs or markets and other Christmas events passed on social media. Therefore a post here with some that are being organized at palaces or castles. It seems many have a limited amount of tickets available, so if you plan to […]
