Recent content by Helena

It is not a Dutch tradition to celebrate a 16th birthday in a big way. The age has no significance for most Dutch people, except to those who watch too many American television shows.

I think it was Greece, he declined and Otto of Bavaria later accepted. Does anybody know the stories about the death of his sons? One died during a gym exersise.

I wonder why she is usually referred to as Anna of Hanover instead of Anna of Great Britain in The Netherlands. Her father was already king George II when Anna married William IV. She had two nameless children before Carolina was born, a daughter in 1736 and a child of unknown sex in 1739.

I don't even know where Broek in Waterland is but it looks lovely. Does anybody hae more information on the places where the king and queen of Bohemia lived while they stayed in Holland. They set up court in The Hague and also had a place in the countryside but I do not know where.

Why? He achieved nothing at all with his actions apart from creating some drama and he has misused the powers that he has for his personal agenda. To me it shows that Henri is unfit to rule in a secular democracy and it would have been much better if he had been forced to abdicate. His son, who...

It is true that Leopold III and Lilian did not see much of Baudouin and Albert anymore. I read that Leopold and Lilian cut out pictures from newspapers to see Albert's children! Josephine-Charlotte did continue to visit her father but it was also strained. Princess Marie-Christine once said...

Did he call himself Don Fabiolo or did the press invent that for him?

The guestlist: HM Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands HSH Princess Armgard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld HHSSHH Prince Viktor Adolf & Princess Rosa, Prince & Princess zu Bentheim und Steinfurt HSH Princess Elisabeth, Princess zu Erbach-Schönberg HRH Prince George, Duke of Kent HRH Princess Alice...

I wondered why Clementine didn' t sue the Belgian state after her fatehrs death like her sisters Stefanie and Louise did?

Everybody was talking about it at my work today and everybody says something like 'how rediculous they make such a problem of glasses' or 'don't they have more serious things to worry about'. The point is the privacy part but most people fail to see that and just talk about the glasses. I...

Thank you Princess Maxima. What does the caption say? Jewel in the crown of Holland?

Well the journalist who wrote that piece is not too clever. First he writes that the place is dangerous for children and a few sentenses later that Willem-Alexander and Maxima want to buy it, who have 3 children!

I think they have the same statue in Amsterdam on de Prins Hendrikkade near the central trainstation.

Supload.com // Free Image Hosting This picture is just too delicious! What concert did Fabiola attend?

I was wondering, which of the daughters of Grand Duchess Sophie did King Willem III want to marry? And why was he sent to Waldeck? I don't think in those days they valued the 'in love' factor as much as now, so was the Weimar court taken aback by the close family relation or by the age difference?