Royal Round Up! Lots of stuff this week with a bit of Kate Middleton, a bit of Sophie Countess of Wessex, more tiaras from Camilla Duchess of Cornwall and Queen Silvia, Queen Letizia kept busy, as did Queen Maxima and Queen Mathilde, and there’s a little bit of Crown Princess Victoria there at the end.
Tiara Tour 2015: Queen Letizia, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Silvia
I love state visits when royalty is involved, you know why? Tiaras. There are currently three state visits going on in three different countries. Colombia paid a state visit to Spain, Mexico paid a state visit to Britain, and Sweden paid a state visit to Finland. The three royal stars of the tiara show: Queen […]
Royal Round Up: Countess Sophie, Queen Letizia, Duchess Camilla, Queen Maxima + Harry, Beatrice, Eugenie
Royal Round Up time! This week we have Sophie Countess of Wessex, Queen Letizia, Camilla Duchess of Cornwall, and Queen Maxima all getting it done royal-duty style. We also have Prince Harry, Princess Eugenie, and Princess Beatrice (on her fourth holiday in seven weeks) holiday-ing it up in Verbier. Cameos by the Queen, Prince Edward, […]
Duchess Kate paints butts on mural during visit to Ben Ainslie Racing, 1851 Trust
Royal Round Up: Queen Letizia, Crown Princess Victoria, Countess Sophie, Princess Charlene (updated with some Duchess Kate)
Time for another royal round up! This time there’s Queen Letizia, Crown Princess Victoria, Sophie Countess of Wessex, and Princess Charlene. With cameos by King Felipe, Prince Daniel and Princess Estelle, and Prince Albert. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall was going to be in this post, but she gave so many great quotes that she got […]
Royals attend Holocaust Remembrance Day events
Yesterday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, by Soviet troops. There was a ceremony at Auschwitz attended by heads of state, dignitaries, and over 300 Auschwitz survivors. Additionally, there were a number of commemorative events held around the world. A number […]
Sophie, Countess of Wessex turns 50, visits two of her charities
Royal fashion highs from 2014
Duchess Kate doubles her engagements in 2014, but is still the least active senior royal
The annual tabulation of the British Royal Family’s engagement numbers by Tim O’Donovan has been released… and I’m super confused. There is no one way of how to count Royal engagements, and it seems everyone’s tabulations differ (and apparently I’m the most generous of the lot). Going off of the O’Donovan numbers, almost every royal […]
Sophie, Countess of Wessex talks what she learned from the Queen to Harper’s Bazaar UK
Sophie, Countess of Wessex has given an interview to Harper’s Bazaar UK not only in celebration of her upcoming 50th birthday on January 20 but to promote her patronage of the London College of Fashion and their “Better Lives” campaign. Sophie became patron in 2013, marking the first time a royal has been patron of […]