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  • 2048

    Have you heard of the game 2048? It is addictive.

    And then come the rip-offs – some are funny, like the BBC Sherlock edition. Or even more difficult, like the Tetris version.

    You can also make your own version of the game – I made an Alphabet one.  And then I thought of the possible royal twists – The longest reigning British monarchs for example.  Or this Royal Heirs edition, and the complementary Monarchs, going from shortest “reign” to longest.

    (I was originally going to make it all European, but there is one monarchy short in Europe for that, so I included Thailand. Since Alois hasn’t taken completely over in Liechtenstein, I still have him down as a heir.)

  • The Royal Resource

    A few weeks ago I joined in a Twitter conversation. Most of the times, those kind of conversations lead very few places…  However, this one continued on.

    After some time planning, back and forth, along with the group of enthusiastic royal watchers, a discussion forum was created.

    We came together to create a new forum to discuss royal matters.

    Most of us have being following the royal world for years and gathered lots of knowledge about our favourite royals, both current and historical.

    While some of us prefer to talk current matters, others like to discuss the history of the royal families of this world. Whatever your favourite, you are very welcome to join in the discussions, ask questions and give answers – We won’t judge, we are all royal nerds ourselves.

    At the moment it is a bit bare – but come join us, and help fill in the gaps 🙂

    Check it out: The Royal Resource.

  • Royal timing of second child

    This is really for the royal discussion forums and for people interested in factual royal discussion.
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  • Does having a king or a queen make a country stronger?

    I rather like this article: Does having a king or a queen make a country stronger? – Sentinel & Enterprise.

    Mainly because it articulates why I follow royalty – the historic ties to the past and the future is what gets me interested in it.

    It also makes me remember a Danish newspaper comment after both the male football team and the handball teams had failed utterly in their respective championships – “Now, all we have to hold us together as a nation and excite us, is our royal family and the impending royal birth.”  (I think it was around Christian’s birth, but I can’t say it for sure.)

    Of course, republics have similar historic ties – the stories of all the places George Washington slept and ate have certainly become lore on its own, and there usually tend to be prominent affluent powerful people in republics as well as in monarchies.

    But anyway, I thought it was an interesting article.

  • Adventures in royal history

    If I had limitless holiday time, funding, and people who wanted to go with me, I would love to take a tour of European castles and palaces.

    There is just something about stepping through the history and looking at the architecture.

    And, let’s not forget, going to other countries.

  • Royal Guest Lists (100 things #9)

    Can someone please explain to me the logic of the courts when they reveal their guest list to royal occasions? There is a mish-mash of languages involved, a miss-mash of titles and in the case of the Swedish court – the guest list (or any information, such as engagement announcements) seems to be leaked to the Swedish main press before the court can make a proper announcement about it themselves.

    In the case of today’s wedding – Princess Madeleine to Christopher O’Neill (which I always remember to write with two L’s because of Stargate SG-1). The guest list was released on the wedding website. For cousins of the bride, plus their partners, we have “Mr James Ambler och Mrs Ursula Ambler” but we have “Herr Victor Magnuson och Fröken Frida Bergström”

    No consistency in choosing one language. For relatives of the bride’s mother, we have “Fröken Chloé Sommerlath. Fröken Anaïs Sommerlath” but “Miss Helena Christina Sommerlath” and “Miss Vivien Nadine Sommerlath.”

    One theory could be the country of residence.

    Only, the Swedish court have translated the Danish titles, so it is “Kronprinsessan Mary”/”Prinsessan Marie” and not “Kronprinsesse Mary”/”Prinsesse Marie.” And, Scandinavian royals apart, they’re using English titles for the rest of them.

    They have put Princess Benedikte under German royals, which technically is right, but have used Swedish translated title on her, whereas the other royals in that category have had their titles translated to English.

    Another theory could be the language the guest understands… but it makes no sense when it is a document revealed to the Swedish press.

    The Danish royal court is worse, mixing in French with the Danish and English, as seen in the guest list for Mary and Frederik’s wedding. And using French titles on royals who normally are not adressed by titles in French. Such as “S.A.R le Prince d’Orange” or “S.M. la Reine d’Espagne.”

    I really wish they would be consistent. Either have it in the language of the person attending, English or have it in the language the guest list is released to.

  • My interest in royalty: blogging challenge #3

    It’s my 29th birthday today, and so it seemed like the perfect time to do a bit of retrospective. More specifically, tie it into the 100 things blogging challenge. (Since I’m only on #3…) Plus, being retrospective on other things, I’m going to save that for when I turn 30.

    (Though, if anyone has any “I wish I’d done this before I turned 30” advice – feel free to share.)

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  • Europe’s grandparents : 100 things challenge #1

    If you do any sort of genealogy on royal families in Europe today – the odds are fairly high that four names will show up over and over. In their time, and in history, they’ve received the title of “the grandmother of Europe2, “grandfather of Europe”, “Mother-in-law of Europe”… well, you get the gist.

    The four names are:

    The King of Denmark: Christian IX of Denmark, and his wife Louise
    The Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria, and her husband Albert.

    Although Victoria and Christian IX were married to Albert and Louise, respectively, in speech, it usually tends to revert to the monarchs as the most important, so that’s what I’ve used in the section I discuss below.

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  • 100 things challenge


    {Take the 100 Things challenge!}
    It seems like a good way to get partly back into royal blogging. My topic shall be 100 Random Royal Bits and Pieces.