Here are some of the royal (or royal-related) birthdays of April.
Category: Royalty
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Old pictures of royals
Library of Congress has a project going, where they’re adding their collection of old photographs to Flickr – to share them with the public.
In that, there’s also some old photographs of the royals. The pictures tagged with royalty can be found here.
Enjoy.
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Royal family vs. royal house
In the past couple of years, there have come a distinct separation in Norway. It is the line between the members of the royal house (Kongehuset) and the members of the royal family (Kongefamilien). The members of the Royal House is the Monarch and spouse, the Crown Prince/ss and spouse and the heir. The rest of the lot are members of the royal family.
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Profession Princess: Book review
Catarina Hurtig: Profession Prinsesse – translated to Danish.
Let me start out by saying that I wish I could have read the original Swedish version of this book. Unfortunately, the only version I could get my hands on, was the Danish translation.
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“Our” royals?
A lot of the time, when someone is about to make an argument against having a monarchy- if they diverge from the ever faithful “they’re living on our taxes” argument, or the “it’s an old-fashioned form of government” one- for some of the countries we usually end up with the ever true and tried one: “They’re not XXX nationality, they’re from YYY.”
In a lot of ways, it is true.
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Helt Konge
Some years ago, the Norwegian language adopted a new use of the word King. It was not used solely to refer to King Harald anymore.
From being a substantive, it also mutated into being an adjective. Things that formerly were cool were suddenly “konge”/”king.”
And, as always, the newspapers gripped hold of this fascinating new meaning, which allowed them to make less than clever puns when they talked about the King, or the royal family.
The picture text in this article on the Norwegian holiday residences, state that the King and Queen have it “helt konge” at their summer house.
It is also used about their visit to Nordland. And, of course, when they opened the new playground – the playground was, according to the paper, helt konge.
A boat trip in sunny weather this summer was also described by the same words. As was the new Lexus the royal family acquired.
Whereas, the deficit in the royal budget was described as not “helt konge”…