13 May Three days after his birth on 10 May 2020 Prince Charles of Luxembourg was allowed to leave the Maternité Grande-Duchesse Charlotte in Luxembourg-City with his mother Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie and his father Hereditary Grand Duchess Guillaume of Luxembourg. The family returned to Fischbach Castle. Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume also registered the birth […]
Royal News 2012
Last modified: 5 August 2012 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2012. January 1st A cheerful Duke of Edinburgh attended the New Year’s Day church service at Sandringham this morning, making his first public appearance after his hearth surgery. Also Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and the Earl and Countess […]
Royal News 2010
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 […]
Royal News 2009
Last modified: 3 January 2010 Archived royal news from my old website for the year 2009. January 1st Like every year the five waka poems by Emperor Akihito of Japan and the three waka poems by Empress Michiko of Japan on the occasion of the end of the year were published. Also the New Year […]
Royal News 2008
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 […]
Royal News 2007
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. […]
Royal News 2006
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 […]
Royal News 2005
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 […]
Royal News 2004
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 […]
Royal News 2003
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 […]