Photos and News of the Royals around the Globe

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Celia

4 yrs ago

King and Queen and baby prince of Bhutan

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Celia

3 yrs ago

If Germany had a royal family this man would be their king.

Georg Friedrich Ferdinand Prinz von Preußen

(born 10 June 1976) is a German businessman who is the current head of the Prussian branch of the House of Hohenzollern, the former ruling dynasty of the German Empire and of the Kingdom of Prussia.

He is the great-great-grandson and historic heir of Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, who abdicated and went into exile upon Germany's defeat in World War I in 1918.

Celia

3 yrs ago

Queen rides out lockdown: Monarch, 94, is seen in the saddle for the first time since coronavirus fears forced her to retreat to Windsor Castle 10 weeks ago

Queen Elizabeth II has been pictured riding in the grounds of Windsor Castle in her first public appearance since the coronavirus lockdown began (left and right). Windsor is said to be the Queen's favourite royal residence and she has been photographed over the weekend riding one of her ponies, a 14-year-old Fell Pony called Balmoral Fern. Her Majesty was accompanied by head groom Terry Pendry, with the pair practising social distancing at all times. The last public picture of the Queen was taken as she was driven away from Buckingham Palace to her Windsor Castle home on March 19 (inset).

RnR

3 yrs ago

Amazing really for 94 years old.

Today is the 67th anniversay of her coronation on 2 June 1953.

Have posted the details on Today's Chat.

Celia

3 yrs ago

Official duties: The royal couple were on hand to open the square in the heart of Monte Carlo

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8379897/Monacos-masked-royals-Prince-Albert-Princess-Charlene-Princess-Stephanie-Monte-Carlo.html?ito=email_share_article-image-share

Monaco's royal family turned out in force to open the newly renovated Place du Casino in Monte Carlo today.

Prince Albert, 62, and wife Princess Charlene, 42, donned face masks printed with the Grimaldi family crest, proving they are taking no chances with their health even though the prince has already had coronavirus.

They were joined at the event by Albert's sister Princess Stephanie, 55, and her three children, Pauline Ducruet, Camille Gottlieb, and Louis Ducruet, who attended with his wife Marie.

Celia

3 yrs ago

First look at the new Prince of Bhutan: King releases photos of his three-month-old son to mark his wife's 30th birthday (and proud big brother steals a peek!)

King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, 40, and Queen Jetsun Pema shared their first photos as a family-of-four on Facebook yesterday (pictured). The couple are already parents to four-year-old Prince Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, known as the Dragon Prince, who is seen smiling proudly at his baby brother in the new photographs (main). The baby's name has not yet been announced.

Lucca

3 yrs ago

The Lion: King of the Jungle? | David Rives - YouTube

Celia

3 yrs ago

Put in the wrong Thread Lucca this belongs in the Animal Thread. But you already know that don't you?

Sophie

3 yrs ago

Celia...will you please stop bullying Lucca!

Quite frankly, I find that lion picture much nicer than most of those "royals" who don't give a dam about their poverty stricken citizens.

Celia

3 yrs ago

Think what you will I don't agree.

Lucca

3 yrs ago

I really thought you'd like the picture Celia, after all the lion is wearing a crown!

Celia

3 yrs ago

Prince Philip's low-key 99th birthday: Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen will mark the milestone with a simple lunch at Windsor Castle

Prince Philip will celebrate his 99th birthday next week with nothing more fancy than a simple lunch with the Queen. Royal sources have confirmed that there are no plans for a party

Celia

3 yrs ago

Prince Philip turns 99 on 10th June 2020!

It is hard to imagine him being that age; as a child I always looked upon him as a dashing man playing cricket or sailing off the coast of Cowes. How the years have flown by and I am a senior myself!

Hope he has a lovely birthday.

https://www.popsugar.com.au/celebrity/Prince-Philip-Pictures-Information-Over-Years-30768588

Before Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth, she married the handsome foreign Prince Philip from Greece, who also happens to be her third cousin. According to Sally Bedell Smith's biography titled Elizabeth the Queen, Philip came from a tumultuous background despite his lineage. Born in 1921 on the island of Corfu, he moved to Paris at age 1 with his parents, Alice Marie and Prince Andrew of Greece. By age 8, he'd headed to England for boarding school. With generous good looks and confidence, Philip made his way to England with the help of royal relatives. He would later be invited to have lunch with the royal family, and that's when Elizabeth reportedly fell for him. During World War II, Philip served in the Mediterranean and Pacific, and he and Elizabeth wrote each other letters. By 1946, he was back in London and making regular visits to Buckingham Palace. During that Summer, he spent a month at the royal family's Balmoral Estate, where he proposed. Their wedding was held at Westminster Abbey on Nov. 20, 1947.

During their 70 years of marriage, most of them during Elizabeth's reign as the monarch, Prince Philip has been as constant as the queen herself, although he's a bit more controversial, making a few insensitive gaffes. But when he's not giving the press an unfortunate quote to run, he's either by the queen's side, working as a patron for several charities, or, until recently, enjoying carriage racing. In honour of his retirement, let's look back at pictures of Prince Philip over the years, then see the facts about the British royal family every die-hard fan should know.

Lucca

3 yrs ago

Prince Philip is no gentleman, these are some of the things he said to members of the Commonwealth and they are not nice.

Some of his cringe worthy comments

1. "British women can't cook," he told the Scottish Womens' Institute in 1961. Lovely.

2. "It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school art lessons," he muttered while being shown Ethiopian art in 1965.

3. "I would like to go to Russia very much, although the bastards murdered half my family," at a very heated period of history in 1967.

4. "What do you gargle with? Pebbles?" he told singer Tom Jones at the 1969 Royal Variety Performance. Later he added: "It's difficult to see how it’s possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs."

5. "We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves," he told journalists in Canada in 1976.

6. "You are a woman, aren't you?" he said to a Kenyan woman, who was presenting him with a small gift in 1984.

7. "If you stay here much longer you will all be slitty-eyed," the Prince told British exchange students who lived in Xian in 1986. When asked on his opinion of Beijing, he replied: "Ghastly."

8. "If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." Again with the Chinese insults, when he addressed a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

9. "I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing," when dismissing claims those who slaughter for meat have greater moral authority than those who partake in blood sports in 1988.

10. "Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease," when asked if he wanted to pet a koala in Australia back in 1992.

11. "You can't have been here that long — you haven't got a pot belly," he told a British tourist during a visit to Budapest in 1993.

12. "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?," he enquired to an islander while in the Cayman Islands in 1994.

13. "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?" he asked a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

14. "It was part of the fortunes of war. We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'Are you all right — are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it!" when asked about stress counselling for soldiers in 1995.

15. "You managed not to get eaten then?" the Prince asked a British student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea, in 1998.

16. "Where's the Southern Comfort?" he said on receipt of a basket of Southern goods from the U.S. ambassador in London, in 1999.

17. "Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf," he told a group of deaf school children, who were nearby a Caribbean steel drum band in 2000.

18. "You could do with losing a little bit of weight," he told 13-year-old Andrew Adams, after hearing he wanted to become an astronaut while visiting a science museum in 2001.

19. "Do you still throw spears at each other?" he asked a group of Indigenous Australians in 2002, while on a visit to Australia with the Queen.

20. "So who's on drugs here?... He looks as if he's on drugs," he said of a 14-year-old boy while at a Bangladeshi youth club in 2002.

21. "You look like you're ready for bed!" he told the President of Nigeria in 2003, who was dressed in traditional robes.

22. "Is it a strip club?" he asked when meeting a female Sea Cadet who told the Prince she worked in a nightclub, in 2009.

23. "That's a nice tie ... Do you have any knickers in that material?" he asked Annabel Goldie, the Scottish Conservative leader, when welcoming Benedict XVI to Edinburgh in 2010.

24. "The Philippines must be half-empty — you're all here running the NHS," he told nurses at Luton and Dunstable Hospital in 2013.

25. "Just take the f**king picture!" he told a photographer, during a Battle of Britain event in 2015.

Celia

3 yrs ago

Queen Maxima of the Netherlands.

Bright and beautiful! Queen Maxima of the Netherlands cuts a... No mask for Maxima! Netherlands queen is all smiles in a...

Appearing to be comfortable riding along the road's cycle path, Maxima smiled at photographers as she made her way through the city to the museum.

The royal beamed at onlookers as she parked her bike before being pictured inside the museum looking fascinated as she browsed the exhibits.

The royal was all smiles in a loose button-up linen shirt paired with matching smart yellow trousers, which cut off at her ankle to reveal stylish straw coloured pumps

Her waist was clinched with a brown leather, tasseled belt and she sported a pair of dark oversized sunglasses teamed with chunky yellow earrings.

On Monday, The Netherlands re-opened certain cultural institutions following a downward trend in their COVID-19 figures death figures for over a month.

Restaurants, cafes, theaters, concert halls, museums and cinemas returned with strict 1.5-meter social distancing measures observed after two and a half months' in coronavirus lockdown.

In museums, the maximum number of visitors depends on the available space.

The royal appeared overjoyed to be making the visit to the museum as she parked her bike up, smiling at onlookers.

The mother will have followed strict 1.5-meter social distancing rules on her visit to the museum today

Reservations are required for all activities and two people who are not from the same household can sit together at one table in restaurants and cafes.

A maximum of 30 people are allowed in restaurants, cafes, theaters, concert halls and cinemas, as long as the 1.5-meter social distancing rules can be kept.

The visit comes nearly a week after the royal joined a meeting to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on the Dutch tourism industry.

The royal beamed at onlookers as she parked her bike before being pictured inside the museum looking fascinated as she browsed the exhibits

Queen Maxima spoke to representatives including Michiel Uitdehaag, mayor of Texel, and Ineke van Gent, mayor of Schiermonnikoog, about how the pandemic has impacted the tourism industry.

The mother-of-three - who is a member of the Dutch Committee for Entrepreneurship - then spoke to businessmen and women at De Lindeboom hotel about the impact the crisis has had on their endeavours.

Days prior to the visit, Maxima had visited healthcare workers who are working on the frontline in the fight against the virus.

Maxima's manicure was painted bright red and she sported a leather camouflage print clutch paired with an intricate gold bangle and matching gold ring

Celia

3 yrs ago

How petite the Queen is! [with the Dutch King and Queen]