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Absolutely true!

The last Duke of Sussex (before Harry) was Queen Victoria's uncle who led her down the aisle to give her away to her future husband. I hope this satisfies a bit the dissappointed ones, I am thrilled with the Queens' choice, Sussex is beautiful!

But Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the emblematic figure in the lives of the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales, would have been a Prince of Battenberg, if the Battenbergs hadn't renounced their German names and titles out of loyalty to King George and the United Kingdom, so it's a...

I don't comment very often, though I do read and follow Royal Families here in this forum...what perplexes me is how on earth a woman who has worked as a journalist in the public media can expect to control the uncontrollable: she married a Prince who eventually became a King, which makes her a...

Queen Margrethe has always been one of my favorite royals... From day one, when "silly" remarks about her smiling appeared here and there, I thought, this woman has been so very much loved by this man (who hadn't been the easiest man to "get" nor the easiest person to be with, but who was a real...

Yes, please... I found myself shedding a tear or two... Margrethe was trying to hide her face behind her little book, for a moment she was fragile, too... I have really admired her these days, she has been one of my favorites for years, mostly because of her multi-faceted personality... but now...

Thank you so much for explaining all this so well for us, these days! Would it be too much to ask, what is the hymn that everybody sang, the very first one, that I remember having heard again during the little princes' christenings?

Something similar in Greece, too. We do drink wine to honour the deceased and have a family (or maybe larger than family) gathering with lunch right after the funeral. Jokes and life anecdotes of the deceased make people smile and eventually laugh; very normal, very human IMO. We also have a...

I agree with you on that! I just hope and wish for this family the best! They are the successors of a very decent man, so they should do their best to arrange things privately, as a family. I believe Nicolae has still a lot to learn from his aunt Margareta and she must give him a guiding hand...

Being Greek and for that reason feeling close to the way of thinking of the Balkan peoples in general, I must say I am also impressed but not at all surprised by the warmth and sincere feelings of the Romanian people towards this exceptional man, who was their King and who suffered many treasons...

...some years later, Queen Frederika was in exile, the Monarchy abolished in Greece etc. Meanwhile, the "actress" was a much loved princess to the end of her days... Don't get me wrong, I do not share my co-patriots hostile feelings towards the late Queen. I rather admired the woman; but she...

Great pictures, thank you for posting them! I think they reflect the warm relationship among them!

King Constantine, Queen Anne-Marie and Princess Theodora spent a few days in Thailand, attending a conference. (The King is the President of the Round Square, which held their international conference in Pattaya.) A Royal Welcome!

These are wonderful pictures, thank you for posting them, Beltraneja! They must have really enjoyed themselves, the place is wonderful and I'm sure they enjoy each other's company, being the "intellectual" ones of the family ;-)

Thanks for posting the pictures!

:DWell, here it is!!! It is taken from the french edition of Wikipedia, which has a lot more information on Prince Peter than the english one. Those who understand French will find perhaps interesting to read it here: Pierre de Grèce - Wikipédia I took the liberty of translating the part about...

That could be the answer, yes. I also think that he hadn't given the impression of a stable, easy-to-trust person before the war, when King George had asked for his assistance. I found some information on those years, but the text is in French, so I'll translate it later today and post it here.

I feel the same way about this royal person as you. I found these articles while looking for any kind of information on the Prince and I was a bit surprised, since I was under the impression that Prince Peter in fact worked for the Allies, for example (not only) here you will find his name as...

Yes, she was with her husband at the wedding. I saw them on TV.

Bad lighting, that's what I think. She certainly looks tired in the photos taken later, at Syntagma Square, but she did not look "changed":biggrin:, not to me at least.

Yes, that's true. He was also Alexandre's best man(koumparos) in his wedding to Katherine Batis:smile:

Some more amusing piece of news (...) King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie had been to Belgrade prior to the Athens incident, taking part in the celebration for the 25th anniversary of Prince Alexandre and Princess Katherine of Serbia. Kraljevska porodica Srbije

Well, it is one thing presenting a piece of news and an entirely other thing trying to interpret it:nonono:. Let me tell you my facts: I first saw the video in the 8 o'clock news bulletin, on Alter Channel last night. (Those who know the Greek reality also know that it is a rather...

Well, the question is:were they invited to their French cousin's wedding at all? I mean, they couldn't have gone there uninvited, could they?

This is a link to a video showing the King and Queen walking in Athens earlier today. They happened to be at Syntagma Square where the lorry-drivers/owners were protesting in front of the Parliament. One of them asked Constantine if he would be kind enough to speak to his mother over the phone...