KUNGLIGA MAGASINET (Sweden, Swedish), 6 – 2017 The Year with Victoria & The Royal Family Sofias happiness as a mother. Princess Sibylla – The life of a lonely mother of five children. Visit 7 fairytale castles in Sweden. Royal Fashion. The nicest coats. The family name of the British Royal Family. MAJESTY (UK, English), 1 […]
Halloween, All Saint’s Day, just the right time for a spooky post. Often royal palaces and castles are old. There are many stories going around about ghosts haunting these buildings, sometimes friendly, sometimes they are not. A palace without a moat is like a palace without a ghost. This is of course just a very […]
Prince Gabriel 2017. Photo: Prince Carl Philip/ Copyright: The Swedish Royal Court.
On 31 August Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia of Sweden had their second son. The name will be announced this Monday, followed by a Te Deum. As their first son has been named Alexander, a rather non-royal Swedish name, you could wonder which name the newborn prince will receive. The baby seems to have […]
Carlos & Annemarie, Brussels, Belgium, November 2010.
Nobles and royals who are getting married do have the same problem as any other couple that gets married. The wedding venue is often the easiest part, at least if the family still occupies a family castle. But otherwise also they have to find themselves one. And of course there is the flower decoration. How […]
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 […]
Copyright: Anna-Lena Ahlström/The Swedish Royal Court
In April 2016 Princess Christina, Mrs Magnuson – the youngest sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden – published her book “Dagar på Drottningholm”. I thought actually that it was only published in Swedish, but it turns out that almost at the same time also an English version was published, a fact that I […]
The opening of the exhibition “Ogenblikken met Astrid / Astrid & nous regards croisés” at the Museum of the Dynasty in Brussels on 17 November 2005 attracted quite a lot of royals. The exhibition was organised on the occasion of the 100th birth anniversary of Queen Astrid of the Belgians née Princess of Sweden (1905-1935). […]
Nowadays a lot of information can be found online, but not everything and there are still wonderful genealogy books being published with extensive royal and noble genealogies that are a must to have for royal and noble genealogists. They don’t come cheap, but some are really worth buying. The original “Almanach de Gotha” was published […]
The day after … When a royal wedding has taken place you have to keep your eyes open for the little souvenirs left by guests when walking around the palace. Not to take home with you of course (if you can reach them), but they’re always good for a photo. The first picture was taken […]
In Showbizz-land 2016 was quite a bad year, but how bad was it for the royal houses? Here is the complete list for 2016 thus far. It isn’t unusual only to hear about genealogical facts weeks, months or even years later. Good to see that many died at a rather old age, people in their […]
