Category Archives: Royal History

Jelling stones defaced

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Anne

In Jelling, a small town in Jutland, Denmark, two massive rune stones stand on top of a huge hill. The stones are grave stones, or memorial stones. One of the stones was put up by Gorm the Old, as a … Continue reading →

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Old pictures of royals

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Anne

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 … Continue reading →

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The Danish Home Guard

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Anne

With Crown Princess Mary in training for the Danish Home Guard: Army, Billed Bladet has pulled out pictures from the time her mother-in-law, Queen Margrethe II, went through the training for the Airforce branch of the Home Guard.   The … Continue reading →

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How well do you know your English dynasties?

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Anne

Sporcle has a timed quiz going on to see how many of the English royal dynasties you can name. Some of them may be self evident, whilst others may be hidden well within your mind. I got stuck with one … Continue reading →

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The mistresses of Danish Kings – book review

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Anne

The mistresses are the darker side of the royals – they weren’t perfect, the mistresses are proof that they did not stick to their marriage vows. And as the book by Henning Dehn-Nielsen shows, it also happened in the Danish … Continue reading →

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Freud m’a dit – Freud har sagt – a book review

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Anne

In 2006, Steen Kristensen published a triple biography in Danish on Prince George of Greece and Denmark, Princess Marie Bonaparte and Sigmund Freud. The result was definitely worth a read.

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“Our” royals?

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Anne

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 … Continue reading →

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