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Last modified: 1 January 2012 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2011. January 1st In her New Year’s speech, broadcasted on New Year’s Eve, Queen Margrethe warned against letting the financial crisis devolve into a “crisis of values”. She said: “We will find some way out of the financial crisis in […]
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Last modified: 7 January 2011 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2010. January 1st The Princess Royal has been the busiest member of the British royal family in 2009. She undertook 554 engagements. She is closely followed by the Prince of Wales who undertook 540 engagements, and the Duke of York […]
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Last modified: 8 January 2009 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2008. January 1st King Juan Carlos I of Spain celebrated New Year with the Spanish ISAF troops in Herat, Afghanistan, yesterday. He told the troops: “I have instructions from my family to congratulate you and thank you.” He saw the […]
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Last modified: 6 January 2008 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2007. January 1st Countess Bettina Bernadotte af Wisborg and her husband Philipp Haug had a daughter, Linnea, in Konstanz at 2.30am on December 31. The couple is very happy with their second child and mother and daughter are doing fine. […]
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Last modified: 2 January 2007 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2006. January 1st Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was moved to the Bronovo Hospital in The Hague. She will rehabilitate there until the moment she can return home. The doctors are very satisfied about the progress the Queen makes with […]
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Last modified: 19 January 2006 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2005. January 1st In his New Year’s speech King Harald V of Norway centered on the tsunami catastrophe that hit South East Asia as well as many Norwegian families. “It is with horror we have followed the dramatic newscasts of […]
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Last modified: 31 December 2004 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2004. January 1st King Albert II and Queen Paola of Belgium celebrated the New Year in Borovetz, Bulgaria, together with former King, now Prime Minister, Simeon of Bulgaria and his wife Margarita. January 2nd Prince Rainier III of Monaco was […]
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Last modified: 4 January 2004 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2003. January 1st A survey of The Times says that the Duke of Edinburgh was the busiest member of the British royal family in 2002 carrying out 578 engagements, of which 487 were in Great Britain and 91 abroad. Queen […]
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Letter of HRH Prince Johan Friso to Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende The Hague, 9 October 2003 Dear Mr. Balkenende, In connection with the coverage in the media over the past few months and recent questions in the Second Chamber Mabel Wisse Smit and I have reflected the events and our own role in them. […]
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Last modified: 29 December 2002 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2002. January 1st Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit together with son Marius and King Harald and Queen Sonja visited Asker church for the New Year mass today. The mass was led by Bishop Stålsett of Oslo. There were […]
