A radio documentary and three lectures
On Thursday next week, 25 years will have passed since the solemn blessing of the King and Queen in Nidaros Cathedral and to celebrate the silver jubilee they embark on a twelve-day tour of the kingdom...
View ArticleKing and Queen embark on silver jubilee tour
The King and Queen are celebrating the silver jubilee of their accession to the throne this year, and yesterday they arrived in Tromsø to embark on their jubilee tour of the country on the Royal Yacht...
View ArticleMy latest articles: "St Haakon" and coronations
Today is the 110th anniversary of the coronation of King Haakon VII - the last in Norwegian history - and I mark the occasion with an article in the newspaper Adresseavisen today, in which I look at...
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Silver jubilee celebrated in Trondheim
Today is the 25th anniversary of the King and Queen's solemn blessing in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim on 23 June 1991. The King and Queen are currently on a silver jubilee tour along the coast, and...
View ArticleMy latest article: Bergen as coronation city
The King and Queen's silver jubilee tour reached Bergen today, two days after their visit to Trondheim, the place of their solemn blessing 25 years ago. While many assume that kings have always been...
View ArticleGuðni Jóhannesson elected President of Iceland
On Saturday the people of Iceland went to the polls to elect the successor to President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, who will step down from the post he has held for twenty years on 1 August. The choice...
View ArticleMy latest articles: Empress Marie-Louise & Swedish royal dukedoms
The July issue of Majesty (Vol. 37, No. 7) went on sale in Britain last week and this month I have contributed an article on Empress Marie-Louise of the French, Napoléon I's second wife. In the eyes of...
View ArticleMy latest articles: Silver jubilee, ex-Queen Anne-Marie and Swedish royal...
The August issue of Majesty (Vol. 37, No. 8) went on sale in Britain last week, and this month I have contributed a report on the King and Queen's silver jubilee, focusing on the celebrations in...
View ArticlePrincess Märtha Louise and Ari Behn to divorce
Some two hours ago, the royal court announced that Princess Märtha Louise and her husband of fourteen years, the author Ari Behn, are to divorce. In a press announcement published on the royal website,...
View ArticleMy latest article: Friedrich August III, the last King of Saxony
The September issue of Majesty (Vol. 37, No. 9) went on sale at the end of August, and this month my contribution is an article on Friedrich August III, the popular King of Saxony, who in 1918 brought...
View ArticlePrince Alexander of Sweden baptised
At a service in the church at Drottningholm Palace outside Stockholm at noon today, Prince Alexander of Sweden, Duke of Sudermania, the firstborn child of Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia, was...
View ArticleAt the road's end: Countess Gunnila Bernadotte af Wisborg (1923-2016)
The Swedish royal court has just announced that the King's aunt by marriage, Countess Gunnila Bernadotte af Wisborg, widow of the late former Prince Carl Johan, died yesterday. She was 93. She was born...
View ArticlePrivate funeral for Gunnila Bernadotte on 29 September
Swedish media report that according to the royal court, the funeral of Countess Gunnila Bernadotte af Wisborg, who was an aunt by marriage to King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Queen Margrethe II of...
View ArticleMy latest article: Crown Princess Märtha and Franklin D. Roosevelt
While a new film on the royal family during the Second World War has just opened in cinemas, the October issue of Majesty (Vol. 37, No. 10), which is now on sale, contains an article I have written...
View ArticleBirth of King Olav's first great-great-grandchild
The first member of the sixth generation of the family founded by King Haakon VII saw the light of day on Thursday 28 September, when Victoria Ribeiro Falcão gave birth to a boy, who has received the...
View ArticleAt the road's end: Haakon Haraldsen (1921-2016), businessman and the Queen's...
After much ado, the foundation stone of the new Munch Museum in Oslo was finally laid on Friday by the Crown Princess, assisted by the Mayor of Oslo, Marianne Borgen. The ceremony was originally...
View ArticleMy latest article: The legend of Franz Joseph
November has just begun but the November issue of Majesty (Vol. 37, No. 11) has already been on sale for a week and a half. As this month marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Emperor Franz...
View ArticleMy latest articles: King Bhumibol & Queen Louise's dream
The December issue of Majesty (Vol. 37, No. 12) is on sale in Britain from today and this month I have contributed two articles: One on the unhappy Queen Louise of Denmark (consort of Frederik VIII)...
View ArticleMy latest articles: Mountbatten in Sweden & Trondheim as coronation city
This year's last issue of the Swedish royal magazine Kungliga magasinet (no 7 - 2016) went on sale a couple of weeks ago, and to this issue I have contributed an article on how Earl Mountbatten of...
View ArticleGrand Cross Collar for Crown Princess
At a Christmas reception for the royal household at the Royal Palace yesterday, the King invested the Crown Princess with the Collar of the Grand Cross of the Order of St Olav for her services to...
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