It’s that time of year again! For the next few days leading up to the New Year, we will have a series of ‘Year in Review’ articles, compiling and featuring the Royal highlights of 2017. Today, we are taking a look at the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s 2017 highlights- Continue reading
It’s that time of year again! For the next few days leading up to the New Year, we will have a series of ‘Year in Review’ articles, compiling and featuring the Royal highlights of 2017. While the (quite rare) White Tie and Tiara events get a lot of attention, the (more frequent) Gala or Black Tie events are usually forgotten. Today we are taking a look at some of the Royal Black Tie and Gala events of 2017- Continue reading
It’s that time of year again! For the next few days leading up to the New Year, we will have a series of ‘Year in Review’ articles, compiling and featuring the Royal highlights of 2017. Today, we are taking a look at the Royal Weddings of 2017- Continue reading
It’s that time of year again! For the next few days leading up to the New Year, we will have a series of ‘Year in Review’ articles, compiling and featuring the Royal highlights of 2017. Today’s feature is a roundup of the Royal Tiaras of 2017! Continue reading
Merry Christmas to all of my readers celebrating around the world! Royals have been releasing a plethora Christmas Cards and Messages this month, often with a family photo and message. After the success of last year’s roundup, we are compiling the Royal Christmas Cards of 2017- Continue reading
2016 has been an eventful year for Queen Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh, with the celebrations for the Queen’s 90th Birthday and the 60th Anniversary of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards, as well as many other milestones throughout the year. As always, click on the underlined / highlighted words to get to the comprehensive post on the event. Continue reading
To end our Year in Review series for 2016, we would like to feature our Top Ten most visited pages this year. As always, click on the highlighted/underlined words to get to the post on the event, person, or tiara. Continue reading
Royals have been releasing Christmas cards this month, often with a family photo and message.Here are the christmas cards and photos from 14 countries. As always, click on the highlighted or underlined words to get to the comprehensive post on the Royal, event, or country. Continue reading
The Norwegian Royal ladies had a nice amount of Tiara appearances this year, starting with the official portraits released for King Harald’s Silver Jubilee in January, and continuing with a Gala dinner for the diplomatic corps in March, outgoing State Visits to Italy and Finland, a banquet during the Singapore State Visit, and a dinner for members of the Norwegian Parliament in October. Continue reading
Happy Birthday to Queen Silvia of Sweden, who turns 73 today. The Swedish Royal family had a Tiara filled year starting with a representation Dinner and fairy tale party in February. They hosted the world’s royalty at King Carl Gustav’s 70th Birthday celebrations though only Queen Silvia attended Chilean State Banquet. There were two tiaras during the Swedish State Visit to Germany, and four tiaras each night at the Nobel Prize Banquet and King’s Dinner for Nobel Laureates. This made for a grand total of eleven Tiaras worn eighteen times this year. There were more tiaras worn by the King’s sisters, but covering them would have made this list endless. Continue reading
As part of our Year in review series, we take a look at the the Royal Tiaras of 2016. With the grand 70th Birthday celebrations of King Carl XVI Gustav to the guests at the Albanian Royal Wedding in October, this year has been filled with Royal Tiaras. Here we will look at the Tiaras from each country. This is by no means a comprehensive list, as we haven’t covered Japan or exiled royal families, but it includes events we have covered on this blog. If you have more to add to this, feel free to contact us. As always, click on the highlighted words to get to the comprehensive post on the Tiara or event. Continue reading
It was a year of repeats for the Dutch Royal Family in 2016. They wore only five Tiaras from their enormous collection nine times throughout the the year. At King Carl Gustav’s 70th Birthday celebrations, Princess Beatrix wore one of the family ‘Big Guns’, it was a standard showing at the annual Gala Dinner for the Corps Diplomatique in May, and while Queen Maxima wore a tiara for only the second time during the Dutch State Visit to New Zealand in November, the Dutch Royal family were back in their standard tiaras during the Belgian State Visit to the Netherlands a few weeks later. Continue reading
There was a moderate showing of the Danish Royal Tiaras in 2016. It was standard at the New Year’s Court, a tiara debut at a gala dinner for art and culture in March, repeats at the Mexican State Banquet, a missed opportunity at King Carl Gustav’s 70th Birthday celebrations, and official portraits for a Copper Wedding Anniversary in November. Continue reading
To continue on our ‘Tiara Roundup’, we will look at Belgian Royal Tiaras in 2016. Queen Mathilde of Belgium had five tiara events this year in which she made full use of her limited collection. There were incoming State Visits from Germany and Jordan in the Spring, a 70th Birthday Banquet in Sweden, and two outgoing State Visits to Japan and the Netherlands in the Fall.
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2016 was quite a low key tiara year in Britain, compared to 2015, when their were six tiara appearances for the Queen, five tiara appearances for the Duchess of Cornwall, and two tiara appearances for the Duchess of Cambridge. This year the Queen and Duchess of Cornwall repeated their tiaras, which combined with the Spanish State visit in March being canceled and the Queen not making an outgoing summer State Visit, left many Royal Watchers disappointed by the lack of glitter. As always, click on the underlined words to get to the comprehensive post on the Tiara or event. Continue reading
This year we featured seven Royal and Noble Weddings on The Royal Watcher. The Wedding posts have become our most popular, with the Wedding of the Earl of Arundel having the most views on a single page. All other Wedding posts are among our Top 20 most viewed pages this year. As always, click on the links above the pictures to get to the post. Continue reading
Welcome to a new feature on The Royal Watcher- Year in Review, where we will focus on the highlights of a Royals life throughout the year. Stay tuned for similar posts on all of your favourite royals this year. To start we will feature our favorite young royal Prince George of Cambridge, son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Continue reading
