Sunday, 26 July 2015

Royals on social media

As summer takes over, royal social media is quietening down. But just when you think it's all but disappeared, a certain little prince turns two and the retweets start flying. This week has been all about Prince George but as well as celebrations we've had a bit of seaside fun and quite a lot of food. Here's the royal week on social media.

Princes in charge

He might have looked rather pensive in his sister's christening photos but in an image taken on the same day and released on the Kensington Palace Twitter account the day before he turned two, Prince George of Cambridge was all smiles. The portrait, taken by Mario Testino on July 5th, has already been retweeted almost 9,000 times.


Crown Prince Haakon Magnus, Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway all headed to a cultural day during the week but it was Prince Sverre Magnus who stole the show, starring in a photo with a bow and arrow that was shared on the official Facebook page.



Prince Charles spent the week in Cornwall on his annual visit to the South West and ended his stay by taking charge of birthday celebrations for one of the organisations of which he is patron, the Countryside Fund. The prince was photographed about to slice into a cake on the official Clarence House Twitter feed.





Food, glorious food

Queen Letizia of Spain, an ambassador for nutrition for the FAO, visited Expo 2015 at Milan to learn more about work going on to provide good food for all and to educate more people about healthy eating. She was snapped next to a rather striking food pyramid while there and the image was shared on the official Casa Real Twitter feed.





Back in Cornwall, the Prince of Wales and Camilla spent some time at the Island Fair on St Mary's in the Scilly Isles where they tried local produce as seen on the Clarence House Twitter feed.





Buckingham Palace opened its doors to the public this week for the summer season with a theme of a 'royal welcome' and the British Monarchy Twitter account shared images of how a State Banquet is prepared to mark the occasion.

 



Belgium's National Day

King Philippe of the Belgians marked the second anniversary of his reign on his country's National Day this week and images of the celebrations were shared on the official Twitter feed, @MonarchieBe.

His cousins in Luxembourg showed their pride in him by retweeting the messages about his speech on the eve of July 21st.

 
But the decision to make a photo of Philippe and his consort, Mathilde, into a banner for the official Belgian Royal Facebook page perhaps worked better as an idea - they are a golden couple but in this case they're barely visible


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