The Dutch royal family have released very relaxed snaps for their annual portraits, leaving their dog Mambo to steal the show. Queen Maxima, 52, and King Willem-Alexander, 56, beamed as they posed with their three daughters, Princesses Catharina-Amalia, 19, Alexia, 18, and Ariane, 16, in the pictures taken on the Zuiderstrand …
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It’s increasingly normal for commoners to have had a career before marrying into one of Europe’s royal families. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands was a Wall Street banker. Queen Letizia of Spain was a broadcast journalist at ABC and CNN. None of them, however, quite matches the colourful past of Princess …
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From Queen Victoria and Albert, Diana and Charles to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, we’ve compiled a timeline of Royal Wedding portraits from around the world. Some of the most notable include the 1840 marriage of Queen Victoria and Albert, who had a wedding cake measuring nine feet tall by 16 inches wide, …
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Elegant and stylish as Royal wardrobes might be, ‘modesty’ is normally a watchword. But there is one adventurous style that does make an appearance or two at public events – the glamorous thigh-high split. Carefully calibrated, of course. A flash of the leg was an integral part of the £3,000 …
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