Royal birth in Belgium
The Belgian Royal Court announced on Saturday 7 September 2019 that Prince Amadeo and Princess Elisabetta the previous night – 6 September 2019 – had become parents to their second child and first...
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The Belgian Royal Court announced on Thursday 12 September 2019 that Prince Amadeo and Princess Elisabetta's son, who was born on 6 September 2019, has been named Maximilian. Then announcement doesn't...
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Sweden: Changes to the Royal House
Court decision 7 October 2019. Photos of documents published at the Swedish Royal Court's Facebook page.The Swedish Royal Court announced on Monday 7 October 2019 that the King had decided to...
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Royalty Digest Quarterly no. 3, 2019
The third issue of Royalty Digest Quarterly was posted from Sweden on 25 September and I received it soon after, but I have been busy with travelling in October (Cyprus, Poland and the United Kingdom)...
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Genealogen nr. 2, 2019
Siste utgave av Genealogen (nr. 2, 2019), medlemsbladet til Norsk Slektshistorisk Forening, kom endelig i posten i går. Vanligvis kommer høstnummeret ut i månedsskiftet oktober/november, men denne...
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Kong Haakon VII og dronning Mauds etterkommere (The Descendants of King...
Foto: ©1910 Ernest Rude/Oslo Museum.I forrige måned – 26. november nærmere bestemt – var det 150 år siden dronning Maud av Norge, født prinsesse Maud av Wales, ble født. I den anledning har jeg i...
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Ari Behn (1972–2019)
Ari Behn in Stockholm, June 2013. Photo: © 2013 Frankie Fouganthin, Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license). The author and artist Ari Mikael Behn, former...
View ArticleFuneral service for Ari Behn
Norway took yesterday farewell with the author and artist Ari Behn, who died on Christmas Day, 47 years old. The funeral service took place at Oslo domkirke (Oslo Cathedral). Behn's family had chosen...
View ArticlePublished articles and Slektshistoriewiki contributions, 2019
The time has come to submit an account of my work as an historian and genealogist in 2019. Here is a survey of the articles I have written and got published last year, all in Genealogen, the bi-annual...
View ArticleNorway: King Harald admitted to hospital
The Norwegian Royal Court announced earlier today that King Harald, who will celebrate his 83rd birthday in February, has been admitted to Rikshospitalet (The National Hospital) in Oslo due to...
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UK: Duke and Duchess of Sussex to step back as senior members of the Royal...
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex released today the following statement on their official website and Instagram account:“After many months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a...
View ArticleNorway: King Harald remains in hospital
The Norwegian Royal Court informed today that King Harald, who was admitted to the National Hospital two days ago for dizziness, will remain in hospital over the weekend. His health is improving, and...
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The Sultan of Oman has died, Longest reigns website updated
The late Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Sa’id bin Taimur al-Mu’azzam. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.The Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said bin Taimur al-Muazzam, died late on 10 January 2020, 79 years old, after...
View ArticleNorway: King Harald still in hospital, expected to be discharged this week
King Harald of Norway, who was admitted to hospital last Wednesday for dizziness, is still in hospital, but is expected to be discharged this week. In a NTB interview published in Aftenposten on early...
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Ari Behn's urn to be interred at Our Saviour's Cemetery in Oslo
Grave of Thomas Konow (1796–1881), member of the Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814, is buried at Our Saviour's Cemetery in Oslo. Photo: © 2016 Dag Trygsland Hoelseth.Geir Håkonsund, who was the...
View ArticleNorway: King Harald discharged from hospital
The Norwegian Royal Court released a short press statement earlier today informing that the king had been discharged from hospital, but that he was still on sick leave. King Harald was hospitalized on...
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UK: Intense days
It has been intense days for everyone involved – members of the British royal family and court, the media and the royalty-watching community – since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced last week...
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Royalty Digest Quarterly no. 4, 2019
I am not completely done with 2019 yet, because I have left to make a few comments on the latest issue of Royalty Digest Quarterly (no. 4, 2019). The magazine was waiting for me when I returned to Oslo...
View ArticleUK: New statements released concerning the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
The following statements were released in the evening of 18 January 2020 concerning the arrangements agreed on after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had expressed their wish to step back as senior...
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Håby Church and Cemetery, Munkedal, Sweden
I made a stop at Håby Church and Cemetery in Munkedal in Västra Götaland county in Sweden on my way home from Svenska Släktforskardagarna (the Swedish Genealogy Convention) in Borås in August 2019. I...
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