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While I was digging into the history of Prince Henrik‘s pettiness about his royal title, I became fascinated with the story, and Prince Henrik won’t shut up about his pettiness so there’s an update!
Prince Henrik has a history of being outspoken when it comes to his title, and now he’s added yet another item to the list as he announced this week that he is refusing to be buried next to his wife, Queen Margrethe II, because he was never made King Consort.
Both the Danish Royal Family and the Japanese Imperial Family celebrate the new year by donning tiaras. The Danes hold their New Year’s Banquet at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen, while the Japanese hold their New Year’s ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
Crown Princess Mary brought out her new tiara again for the Mexican State Visit to Denmark last week.
The Danes kicked off 2016 on January 1 with their annual New Year’s Banquet at Christian VII’s Palace. Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik – along with Crown Prince Frederik, Crown Princess Mary, Prince Joachim, and Princess Marie – hosted government officials and other guests. This event, which originated in the 1600s, is one of the most formal events on the Danish calendar.
As we wind down 2015 and look forward to 2016, I thought it would be fun to look back at the biggest royal happenings of the year. This year seemed to be all about the Brits and the Swedes with several big events from both families, though there were big events from other families as well. There were multiple births, multiple christenings, multiple weddings, multiple pregnancy announcements, and some big birthdays, among other things.
Royal Round Up on a Tuesday! This one includes a report about Prince William wanting to champion anti-bullying, Princess Beatrice‘s birthday holiday, Sophie, Countess of Wessex and her family as well at Princess Anne and her family at an eventing competition, Princess Charlene at the Red Cross Ball, and Crown Princess Mary at fashion week and the Danish royal family summer photocall.
Oy, best laid plans. Sorry that this post is so late. Today’s post is a round up of royal engagement rings from some of the women I cover on here (this is not an exhaustive list of all royal engagement rings). But before I get to that, though, I want to send some love over to commentator Lisa who is having/has already had surgery today. Keeping good thoughts for you, Lisa, and hopefully you get well soon and will be in even better health than before.
In honor of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary‘s 11th wedding anniversary, today’s royal round up features the Danish Royal family.
This week’s royal round up is going to be a little different. Instead of the usual round up, this post is dedicated to Queen Margrethe‘s second day of birthday celebrations on April 16 (her actual 75th birthday) that I didn’t have time to post during the week.