All photos & copyright: Gabi P. Marrying despite of covid-19? Each country, or sometimes even area, has its own rules. While many people have postponed their weddings, others have decided to reduce the amount of guests and continue with the festivities. Also in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, it is possible again to hold church […]
Photo: 2020, Elisabeth Toll/Kungl. Hovstaterna
Today 10 years ago it was the wedding day of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Daniel Westling. I have lovely memories of that day, and I hope I will come back to Sweden one day, as it has been too long. It has just been raining gorgeous photos of the couple taken by Elisabeth […]
Unfortunately the weather on the day before the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Daniel Westling wasn’t as good as hoped. In the afternoon it started raining heavily. Happily it was getting better towards the evening. After a dinner at the Eric Ericsson-hall on Skeppsholmen there was a concert at Stockholms Konserthuset (concert […]
© RVD/Jeroen van der Meyde
The Dutch television at the moment rebroadcasts successful old tv-programs, including some royal ones. Unfortunately most of it is in Dutch, but it is worth watching. I hope all is visible abroad, but on Twitter several people said they could see them. “Bezoek aan Drakensteyn” – The 1980 interview with Princess Beatrix and Prince Claus […]
Often you wished you could come closer to a bride. Back in July 2007 it wasn’t too difficult, but I almost felt too close. I had travelled to Burgsteinfurt, Germany, for the wedding of Hereditary Prince Carl Ferdinand zu Bentheim und Steinfurt and Elna-Margret Rinn on 21 July 2007. When you were early you could […]
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Another year has almost come to an end. Also in the reigning and non-reigning royal houses in the world there were births, engagements, weddings, divorces and deaths. We welcomed somewhat sudden a new queen in Thailand, while the crown prince of Dubai finally got married. We had to say goodbye to four former heads of […]
I can’t believe it is 20 years ago that I travelled all the way to Brussels – about five hours by train – for the wedding of Prince Philippe, the Duke of Brabant, and Mathilde d’Udekem d’Acoz. The engagement surprisingly was announced on 10 September 1999, and was followed by the presentation of the couple […]
Royal Collection Trust / (c) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019, photographer David Cheskin
There were two main reasons for choosing Scotland as my holiday destination earlier this month. One was the fact that I enjoyed my visit 13 years ago very much and really wanted to go back. The other one was the small exhibition “A Royal Wedding: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex” at the Palace of […]
Photo & Copyright: Gabi P.
A very nice and old noble tradition was preserved in one of the German princely houses on 3 August 2019. Fürst Otto zu Castell-Rüdenhausen officially introduced his bride into his household. In German this is called a “Heimführung” and surely not every family seems to do it (anymore), so it is something very special. The […]
Photo & Copyright: Gabi
After the civil wedding at the town hall of Rüdenhausen, Germany, on 29 December 2018, Fürst Otto zu Castell-Rüdenhausen and Sophia Mautner von Markhof celebrated their religious wedding at the former Augustinian Abbey Church in Waldhausen im Strudengau, Upper Austria. The bride wore an ivory silk dress trimmed with lace and an old lace veil, […]
