Category: General
Goodbye to the PH-KBX!
Very few countries in the world have their own government plane. These countries are France, Russia, Great Britain, the USA … and the Netherlands. After 21 years of faithful service […]
Royal Weddings: The Do’s and Don’ts
What are the things you absolutely shouldn’t do when being a guest or a fan at a royal wedding. I am sure there are some things you all can think […]
Royal Lego in Windsor and London (4)
Once again I went on vacation with my friends Erik and Mirjam. We stayed in London during the first five days of May 2017. Of course we were keen on […]
The other Royal Prisoners of Saint Helena
Some weeks ago I was in the library here in town and saw a nice looking travel book: Ron Moerenhout – Laatste boot naar Sint-Helena (Last boat to Saint Helena), […]
A Street with a Royal Name
How many streets do you know that have the name of a royal? There is hardly a city or village in the Netherlands without streets named after either modern or […]
Who is your favourite Dutch Royal?
And I am of course curious why. Up to three answers allowed.
What I am doing on King’s Day
King’s Day, 27 April: when some of my colleagues – royalty journalists – follow the Dutch royals closely today, during their visit to Tilburg, and many other Dutch people celebrate […]
Etiquette: How to walk up and down the Stairs
I actually never thought for a second about it. But once when visiting a castle I walked down the stairs with someone who had grown up visiting castles of family […]
Dutch Commemorative Plates
Recently I inherited three commemorative plates. They are rather old but still in an almost perfect state. Online I found a bit more information about them. I wonder how much […]
Planning a Royal Wedding Trip
Nothing is worse than already having booked hotel and train/plane in advance of a wedding, and then new details come to light. It actually happened to me almost ten years […]
A Royal Crush
Last week I really started to feel old. Someone posted an article on Twitter with the title “Remember When Prince William Was a Superhot Teen Idol?” Yes, I do remember, […]
Problems Commenting on this Blog Solved
At least I hope so. But someone tried out yesterday and it seems to work again. Guess I had overdone the settings for commenting on this blog a bit. Had […]
How to Start your own Blog or Website?
I started my website in October 1998. At the time I was in between two studies and certainly didn’t lack any time. A friend of mine, who had recently started […]
It’s one of these Fridays again!
When you think that being a royalty journalist is always a relaxed profession, you are quite wrong. Today was one of these Fridays again, although luckily just for a short […]
125 Years Wilhelmina Peppermints – A Collector’s Item
The peppermints with the portrait of the young Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands on it is probably the most known peppermint brand of the Netherlands. In 1892 the Dutch sugar […]