Saturday, 9 May 2015

Royals on social media

It's been about as a busy a royal week as anyone can remember for quite a while after a new princess was born, VE Day celebrations started across the continent and the final countdown to the Swedish Royal Wedding got under way. And in between all that, day to day royal life continued. Here's how the ruling houses of Europe told their week on their official social media channels.


A week of boats


On May 5th the Dutch Royal Family attended a concert marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of their country and headed out to see the crowds there on a boat trip on the Amstel. Images were shared on the Royal Facebook page.


Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway headed to the annual WWF conference in the week where she made a speech about the importance of green issues in everyday life. And during her time there she was photographed on board a boat with images shared on the official Norwegian Royal Facebook page.


Her daughter, Princess Ingrid, launched a boat for the first time in the week as did another future queen, Elisabeth of Belgium. And the Duchess of Brabant, as she is officially known, starred in several images on the official Royal Twitter account on her big day.

Here's to hats

The most famous hat of the week was surely worn by Princess Charlotte who emerged from hospital, ten hours after her birth, in the arms of her mother and sporting a now very famous cream knitted bonnet. An image of the newborn, with her parents, was shared on the Kensington Palace Instagram account.





Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands hopped across to Norway in the week to help Queen Sonja open an exhibition featuring works by Van Gogh and Munch. It will be in Oslo until September when it moves to Amsterdam. And the two royal ladies starred in a photo on the official Norwegian Royal Family Facebook page both wearing striking hats for the event.



Princess Estelle of Sweden starred in some new spring photos. One, shared on the Swedish Royal Family's Instagram account, showed her riding her bike in the grounds of the Haga Palace while very sensibly wearing a pink cycle helmet.



And King Juan Carlos of Spain was pictured in his white Navy cap as he attended an event celebrating his country's maritime past. A video was shared on the official You Tube channel of the Spanish Royal House, Casa Real TV.



Commemorations seventy years on


This week marked the seventieth anniversary of the end of the war in Europe and several royal houses attended commemorations to mark the event. The Duke of York represented the Queen at a ceremony at the Cenotaph and the moment he laid a wreath was shared on the British Monarchy Twitter account.

The Norwegian Royal Family took part in several events and shared the images on its official Facebook page. One of those featured was the tribute King Harald's sister, Princess Astrid, paid to the sailors from her country who served and who Winston Churchill compared to having 'a million soldiers' on land.


And King Philippe of the Belgians laid a wreath on May 8th 2015 marking seventy years since the end of World War Two. Images were shared on the official royal Twitter account.



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