Category: General
The Newest Additions to my Royal Collection
On Saturday 14 October 2017 for the 16th (!!!) time the Royals Verzamelbeurs in Nijverdal was being held. Every year (see my report from 2014) Wilbert Slooijer and his crew […]
Royal Gatherings V The Hague – 4 & 5 November 2017
In the weekend of 4 and 5 November 2017 the fifth Royal Gatherings will be organized in the Park Hotel in The Hague, The Netherlands, by the European Royal History […]
Royal Fashion
Royal Fashion – a topic you can almost not avoid anymore nowadays. In the past few years the blogs about the clothes of princesses and queens have popped up, and […]
Computer Trouble – Update
Apart from your computer crashing there is not much worse that can happen. On Tuesday I really had a nightmare day. I had installed CCleaner quite recently. On Monday that […]
A Busy Week – Royal and Private
It has been a very busy week. A royal wedding (Princess Marie-Gabrielle of Nassau and Antonius Willms), royal engagements in Württemberg (Duchess Sophie with Maximilien d’Andigné) and Japan (Princess Mako […]
Once Upon a Time – Copenhagen 2004
Ha, ha, what you all find when being busy with your folders full of (royal) pictures and videos. This video was created by a friend of mine on 13 May […]
Sophie about her Passion for Princess Diana
Many royalty watchers have their favourite royal(s). Last week I interviewed 33-year-old Sophie from Belgium, who has been a big fan of Diana, Princess of Wales, already for many years. […]
When should you wear a Hat or Fascinator?
When a few months ago King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands celebrated his 50th birthday, he had invited 150 ordinary Dutch people for dinner in the Royal Palace in Amsterdam. A […]
Elderly Royals at Work
It always surprises me that when the retirement age of normal working people is being discussed, people don’t know how loud to protest when a government decides the age goes […]
Travelling to Events – How to Plan
Often people wonder: you go to all these wonderful events. How do you do that? The first thing of course you need is a date and a place for the […]
Is there anyone who wants to be King or Queen?
Several statements by Prince Harry of Wales in the American magazine “Newsweek” last week caused some criticism. Whether it was wise of him to say these things remains a question, […]
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), […]