Sunday, 25 May 2014

Royals on social media, week ending May 24th 2014

European royalty has really embraced social media in the last few months so here is a new feature. Every week, the best images from the official Twitter, Instagram and Facebook sites of Europe's Royal Houses - starting with the week ending May 24th 2014....


Family affairs

Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands were family centric on Twitter this week with the Belgian monarchy sharing images of Queen Mathilde and her three eldest children - Elisabeth, Gabriel and Emmanuel - at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition. 



The Spanish Royal Household shared two pictures of Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia with their daughters to mark the couple's tenth wedding anniversary on the new Twitter account for Casa Real.



The Swedish Monarchy posted a new image of Princess Madeleine and her family on its Facebook page this week as the details of Princess Leonore's christening were revealed.



And Clarence House shared several photos on Instagram of Prince Charles receiving presents for Prince George during the tour of Canada that the prince and the Duchess of Cornwall carried out this week.




Getting sporty

The Belgian royal family tweeted several photos of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde with their children at the Brussels 20km run.


And a couple of photos of the king as he lined up to take part.


King Juan Carlos starred in a handful of twitpics taken at the Champions' League final on May 24th 2014 at Lisbon.



And the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall played paper aeroplanes while in Canada with Twitter letting everyone see this royal competition.




Out and about

Prince Harry did the tourist thing in Rome and sent social media wild for an hour as he paced the Colosseum.


The King and Queen of Sweden shared an image of their visit to Kristianstad on the Royal Family's Facebook page.


King Harald and Queen Sonja also starred on Facebook as they shared photos from their visit to Halsa.


Prince Frederik of Denmark and Prince Haakon Magnus of Norway were shown on the Norwegian Royal Family's Facebook page as they lay wreaths at the tomb of King Christian Frederik, the Danish prince who was elected King of Norway in 1814.




Get a hat, get ahead

Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands starred in one Twitter snap this week but she had her back turned so her blue hat became the main focus of the photo.


King Philippe of the Belgians was in blue as well but his hat was a hard hat for a visit to CERN in Geneva which was documented on the official Twitter feed.


Princess Beatrice's hat at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011 was one of the most talked about outfits of the day.  The princess donned another hat this week for the first garden party of the summer season at Buckingham Palace and became the star of the British Monarchy Instagram account for the day.








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