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TOKYO — Swedish Crown Princess Victoria and Industry and Trade Minister Thomas Östros will visit Japan in April to attend the Swedish national day at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture, Swedish Embassy officials said Wednesday. Sweden, together with four other Nordic countries, will...

Post your favorite outfits of royal women and men. What makes the outfit so special? A top notch daywear outfit that shows off the personality of the royal. A glorious gala gown or dress or suit that shows the glamorous side of royalty. I´ll start off with a few of my favorites:

From Imagine Scandinavia: Crown Princess Mary on her way to a meeting with the Psychiatry foundation in Copenhagen. January 18, 2005

Crown Princess Mary of Denmark arriving at meeting with the Julemærkefonden (organisation to help children) in Copenhagen Denmark today.

Can we have a thread of speeches from royal weddings? If not in English, please provide a translation at some point, please.

BBC A battle is under way in Russia for the stately homes of the country's former aristocracy - confiscated by the Bolsheviks during the 1917 Revolution. Officials in St Petersburg are seeking to privatise some of the palaces by selling them off to the highest bidder. However, some relatives...

Okay. Let´s make this a funny thread. If Royals wrote books, what would the titles be? I think a few royals could contribute to the "Dummies" series. But first of all, I think there should be a book called: "The Finances of a Royal Court - A Guide for Dummies" Poor Marius could write when he...

The modern Princess Haya appears to be changing the traditional role of the Arab wife. Sheikh Maktoum's "new wife", is being seen at his side in public at an increasing number of major events. Haya's presence too has shown a softening of the normally stern-looking Sheikh Epsom Derby_05/06/04 1...

Here is one from Getty of the Queen with her eldest child behind her arriving at the Polar Music Prize: Smiling

Here is a thread where you can discuss which two people would make a great royal couple. They may not be in the same generation even. Past ones count as well. They may be related. Well, there are all related somehow. But no sisters or brothers or parents or grandparents and so on. First...

MADRID, April 16 (UPI) -- Spaniards Friday welcomed a proposed change in the constitution to stop giving male heirs precedence over women in royal succession. Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero included the announcement he would be seeking the amendment in his investiture...

A routine security check at Miami International Airport turned into a diplomatic flap when the unhappy subjects turned out to be the future king of Spain and his fiancee. The couple and four bodyguards were connecting on to a commercial jet in Miami after arriving from the Bahamas in a...

BBC The Queen is in Liverpool for the ancient Maundy Thursday ceremony. During the service at the city's Anglican Cathedral the Queen will hand out money to 78 men and 78 women. Maundy Thursday marks the washing of the disciples' feet by Jesus. British monarchs used to wash subjects' feet...

Beloved Dutch queen mother dies The former Dutch queen, Juliana, has died at the age of 94 after a prolonged period of illness. Juliana, the mother of the reigning Queen Beatrix, ruled for 32 years until her abdication in 1980. She oversaw a period of dramatic social change, taking in the end...

BBC Cambodian king backs gay marriage Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk has shown that advancing years are no barrier to an open mind and liberal attitude. After watching television images of gay marriages in San Francisco, the 81-year-old monarch has decided that single sex weddings should be...

Swedish Prince Carl Philip confirmed at the Swedish television program Mera Motor that he is going to compete in motor sport this summer. The Swedish prince was present at Rally Sweden last weekend when Petter Solberg drove in as number three, and the experience in the Swedish woods apparently...

Relationships between princess Ragnhild, Märtha-Louise and Haakon-Magnus "It's been 50 years since Norway's Princess Ragnhild, eldest sister of King Harald, moved to Brazil with her husband, businessman Erling Lorentzen. Now she's speaking out in a TV documentary, offering candid opinions...

"Crown Prince Regent Haakon delivered his first New Year's speech to the nation on the eve of 2004, filling in for convalescent King Harald. The crown prince, who quoted Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet, impressed both public and experts with what seemed to be a heartfelt and earthy reflection on...

Who is your favorite royal and why? Their personality? The causes they champion? Something they've done in their lives that you really admire?

"Reburial of the Empress-Dowager Maria Feodorovna Today, Minister for Foreign Affairs Per Stig Møller has handed over to the Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Denmark a letter from Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. The letter is...

All of the photos are from Corbis: 1. STAMPS RELATE 700 YEARS OF MONACO HISTORY Original caption: Grace with her three children. 2. STAMPS RELATE 700 YEARS OF MONACO HISTORY Original caption: Grace and Albert. 3. STAMPS RELATE 700 YEARS OF...

Congratulations to the parents.

I would tell Victoria to emphasize her shoulders more. Great shoulders. For Medeleine, I would tell her to stay out of the sun more. And to wear darker clothes to contrast with her light hair.

Her parents are also divorced.

Famous trivia game. No, just kidding. She was an American college student in the 1960s. In around 1964, she married some kind and became Queen of a Pacific island or another country in Southeastern Asia. Any ideas? For some reason, Nepal comes to mind.