1. Let’s start at the beginning. You’re searching for information about a place you would like to visit and there is hardly anything to find or it takes a lot of time. One of the irritations I want to take away with this site is, to help finding the royal and noble palaces and castles …
On 29 January 2023 the new exhibition “Craftsmanship at the Royal Palace – 200 years of creations” opens at Queen Sonja Art Stable in Oslo, that is located in the former Royal Stables. The exhibition can be visited until 17 September 2023. On display is a selection of beautiful handcrafted objects from the Norwegian Royal …
Since early 17th century it has been a tradition to daily hoist the Danish flag, called Dannebrog, at sunrise at Kronborg Castle in Elsinore (Helsingør), Denmark, and lower the flag at sunset. At the start of the new year 2023 the palaces and culture agency of Denmark, Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen, scrapped this practice. They said …
The ancestral seat of the Prussian Royal House and of the Hohenzollern Princes, Burg Hohenzollern, since December 2022 is better accessible. During the renovation of the castle walls also an elevator was added. Next to the Adlertor, the entrance gate to the castle, a plateau was added and a 25 metres high elevator shaft. Now …
The latest royal palace that will turn into a museum is Tatoi, Greece, that faces Mount Parnitha and is surrounded by forests. The estate is only 27 kilometres off the city centre of Athens, the capital of Greece. In January 2023 the minister of Culture of Greece, Lina Mendoni, confirmed in an interview with Real …
In my bookcase, there are three travel books written by or in collaboration with princesses. All three are fantastic books, which I highly recommend. The books can unfortunately be a bit difficult to buy. Explore Sweden with HRH Crown Princess Victoria Johan Erséus wrote the texts for this book. The foreword is by Crown Princess …
In 2023 The Hague will turn into the City of Escher. Both Escher in The Palace and the Kunstmuseum Den Haag celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of the famous graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972). Furthermore a host of activities will be organised in the city, for example a number of buildings in …
