#Princess of Orange-Nassau

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The Royal Fandom Autumn 2024 Photo Challenge!

Day Six: Favourite photo(s) of an heir (they have to be currently first in line to the throne)

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[royal-confessions]

“My honest opinion on royal watching is that none of the so called down to earth royals that Kate and William are constantly compared to would have been well liked if they were under the scrutiny of the British press. Like Carl gustav constantly whining about victoria being queen and not Carl Phillip. Carl Gustav cheating on his wife. Mary and Frederick also took 2 months off work this summer like will and kate. Fredrick with his 77 working days last year and accepting private jet invitations from billionaires. Mary with secretly selling her tax payer funded clothes and hiding it from the public on haberdash. Madeleines wardrobe costs from when she was still a full time working royal etc. Let's not even talk about the the Netherlands and the covid blunders of traveling for holiday. And Willhelm Alexander's cousin's shady investments (and they all still have princely titles) plus princess mabel's connections to a mob boss. All royals are shady as hell. Stop with the narrative that it's just William and Kate. It just seems ignorant!!!” - Submitted by Anonymous

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Willem II, Prince of Orange and His Bride Mary Stuart by Anthony van Dyck, 1641.

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Princess Aimee of Orange-Nassau || top by Uterque

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2 February 2023 HRH The Countess of Wessex, together with Princess Mabel, @KittyvdHeijden, & @MukwegeFound spoke about tackling conflict related sexual violence, highlighting the importance of survivor voices. The UK & NL have committed to ensuring survivors' stories are not ignored. — UK in NL🇬🇧🇳🇱

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Royal historical figures that I'll include in my fanfic, Aikatsu: The Stars of Legend (they debut in Season 2)

Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (formerly known as Princess Alexandra of Denmark)

Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (formerly known as Princess Dagmar of Denmark)

Crown Princess Thyra of Hanover (formerly known as Princess Thyra of Denmark)

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

King Charles XIII/Karl XIII of Sweden and Norway (formerly known as Prince Charles, Duke of Södermanland)

King Charles XIV John/Karl XIV Johan of Sweden and Norway (formerly known as Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte)

King George IV of the United Kingdom

Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

As for why they're there? You'll see...

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Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Princess Albert of Prussia. By Begas.

[krasivaa]

Hi! Top 3 fav tiaras? Luving u ssm by the way ♡♡

Hii lovely!! Thank you so much for your precious compliment and the question🩵

I love literally everything royalty-related, including tiaras, of course-but here are some of my favorites.

Yusupov lover’s knot tiara

In the second picture, you can see Princess Tatiana Alexandrovna Yusupova wearing it.

Queen Maxima’s starry wedding tiara

In the pictures you can see Queen Maxima of The Netherlands wearing it.

The Mellerio Shell tiara

In the second pucture you can see Queen Letizia of Spain wearing it.

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Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands

Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 7 December 2003) is the heir to the Dutch throne and is the eldest of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima’s three daughters.

Unusually, the monarchy in The Netherlands has been predominantly female-led, with three Queens reigning in succession from 1890-2013, when Catharina-Amalia’s father became King, so she’s in good company historically.

Unlike her parents who have committed a handful of regrettable gaffes (including going on holiday to Greece during a Covid-19 lockdown), Catharina-Amalia seems to have her finger on the pulse of the nation.

Case in point:

She rejected her rights to a yearly royal allowance when she turned 18, ostensibly because as a student (she’s studying politics, psychology, law, and economics at the University of Amsterdam), she’s not a “working” royal but also because it felt wrong during a cost of living crisis.

Much like Prince William here, the Princess is keen to have a normal university experience and lived in shared housing with other students until she was threatened with kidnap by a criminal gang.

She also attended a public primary school and even worked in a beach bar in The Hague during her summer break.

Like many Gen Z-ers, she has spoken candidly about mental health, revealing she sometimes sees a therapist, and while making no direct comments about it, she was the focus of new legislation that means LGBTQIA+ royals would be able to marry anyone they chose without forfeiting their right to the throne.

The House of Orange is in need of good PR, as its popularity rankings have dropped in recent years, with Catharina-Amalia hopefully just the fresh face it needs.

Princess Elisabeth of Belgium

Princess Elisabeth (born 25 October 2001) will make history when she ascends to the throne as the country’s first Queen Regnant.

A decade before her birth, the primogeniture was altered to allow for female succession, and she will be the first monarch to benefit.

Had it not been changed, her younger brother, Prince Gabriel, would have been the next King.

The 22-year-old is the eldest daughter of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde. She has a second younger brother, Prince Emmanuel.

She spent her formative years in Brussels, before attending “Hippie Hogwarts,” UWC Atlantic College in Wales.

After completing her education, she undertook a year of military training at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, following in the footsteps of other heirs to the throne.

She’s now studying at Lincoln’s College at Oxford University, where she has competed in the rowing team.

She’s a confident public speaker, having had lots of practice: her first speech was at the age of nine when she opened a children’s hospital named in her honour.

She’s also becoming increasingly recognised for her fashion choices, with reports of the “Elisabeth” effect in Belgium, where her fans rush out to buy what she’s wearing, drawing comparisons to our very own Princess of Wales.

In recent years, Belgium, like many other Western nations, has had to confront its colonial past.

How the Princess decides to acknowledge and apologise for Belgium’s part remains to be seen, but will be vital for how she’s viewed both at home and on the world stage.

Princess Leonor of Spain

The world has been gripped by so-called “Leonormania” in recent weeks, after the heir to the Spanish throne turned 18.

The eldest of King Felipe and Queen Letizia’s two daughters, Princess Leonor (born 31 October 2005) is fast-becoming a national obsession, with her every fashion choice (and potential boyfriend) documented and dissected.

Her rising public profile is in contrast to her closely guarded childhood, during which she made very few public appearances.

After attending primary school in Barcelona, she moved to Wales to complete her education at UWC Atlantic (the same school as Princess Elisabeth of Belgium), where she graduated earlier this year.

She is now enrolled in a military academy undergoing officer training, which will last for three years.

Ahead of her 18th birthday, she presented her inaugural Princess of Asturias Awards, managing to appear decidedly unstarstuck when meeting Hollywood icon Meryl Streep and Japanese author Haruki Murakami.

Much like her father, Leonor will be keen to distance herself from the fiscal scandals of her grandfather, the ex-King Juan Carlos, which also implicated her aunt and uncle, and have played out telenovela-style in Spain over the last decade.

She will do well instead to emulate her mother and grandmother, the beloved Queen Sofia, whose chic style she has already clearly inherited.

In terms of politics, one issue she may have to face head on is the rise of Catalan separatism – an issue that her father made a rare public statement against in 2020 – and which he has been widely criticised on.

Princess Victoria of Sweden (and Princess Estelle)

The 46-year-old Princess Victoria (born 14 July 1977) is another European royal who has benefitted from the modernisation of primogeniture.

In fact, she was second-in-line to the Swedish throne at birth and leapfrogged over her younger brother, Prince Carl Philip, upon the change in the constitution.

It caused something of a controversy at the time, as her father, King Carl XVI Gustaf, objected to the change – not because he didn’t want women to succeed but because of his sympathy towards his son, who was suddenly stripped of his Crown Prince status.

In Sweden, the monarch has even less of a role in public life than in the UK, and as such, King Carl XVI Gustaf has largely kept out of the spotlight.

However, similar to other royals of her generation, Victoria has been more candid about her personal life. She was open about her struggles with anorexia in the 1990s.

Speaking about her experience in 2002, she said:

“I, Victoria, didn’t exist. It felt like everything in my life and around me was controlled by others. The one thing I could control was the food I put in me.”

She leapt to the defence of her now-husband, personal trainer Daniel Westering, when the couple’s early relationship came under close scrutiny.

Princess Victoria’s 11-year-old daughter, Princess Estelle (born 23 February 2012), is next in line to the throne after her mother.

She has similarly benefitted from the change in the law, as she has a younger brother, Prince Oscar.

Commentary in the Swedish press questioned the appropriateness of their match, something which Victoria spoke out against.

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The Royal Fandom Autumn 2024 Photo Challenge!

Day Fifteen: Favourite photo(s) of royal children

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“Amalia and her cousin Eloise are looking more and more alike.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau Attend Prince Friso Awards March (2020)

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Princess Marilene of Orange-Nassau || Max Mara

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Wait for it….

King Willem-Alexander: “What is a scrub?”

Princess Amalia: “You live with four women in the house and you don't know what a scrub is?”

🎥 Rick Evers