CastleMemory: Vaxholms Fästning

Let's have a walk down memory lane to 
a Swedish holiday of my teenage years
and Vaxholms Fästning near Stockholm.


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From Aldovia to Genovia: 5 Of The Most Ridiculous Fictional Royal Movies

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The other night, Netflix suggested me to watch a movie called "A Christmas Prince" and, well, I didn't have much to do, didn't care for anything mind-stimulating and thus did. What I thought of it? It was one of the most ridiculous storylines I have ever seen in a movie dealing with royalty! It, however, tempted me to come up with a list of fictional movies portraying royalty with the most ridiculous and cringe-worthy storylines. Mind you, I will not be including movies dealing with actual current and historical royalty even though those are occasionally pretty ridiculous too. I also asked around on Twitter and got some interesting suggestions, so check those out too. And yes, attention: spoilers ahead!
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A Christmas Prince
An American reporter goes undercover as a nanny to get the inside scoop on a playboy prince, who turns out to be not such a playboy after all but has an evil noble ex-girlfriend who sold stories about him to the papers yet he somehow keeps her a…
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Leiningen/Prussia Wedding in Amorbach: First Impressions

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Today in Amorbach, a small town nestled in the hills of the Odenwald region in Bavaria, there was a wedding that was as royal as they come as His Serene Highness Hereditary Prince Ferdinand of Leiningen religiously married Her Royal Highness Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia. The couple descends from Queen Victoria three times. The groom through his mother, a born Princess of Hanover, and the bride through both her paternal grandparents. Yours truly was among the onlookers and here are some of my first impressions with more to come over the coming days when I get back home. The groom, Hereditary Prince Ferdinand of Leiningen, arrived on the arm of his mother née Princess Alexandra of Hanover leading the cortege of the immediate family, witnesses and bridal children. The groom's father, the Fürst of Leiningen, and the bride's mother Ehrengard von Reden, second and former wife of the late Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia. Behind them are the groom's sister Princess Olga…
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Orangerieschloss

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Rounding off our series of posts on the plentiful palaces of Potsdam - because I will need to do some more castlehunting before when can delve deeper into the other handful of Prussian palaces in the capital of the German state of Brandenburg - is the Orangerieschloss, also known as the Orangery Palace. The palace owes its existence to King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and was originally planned to be part of a larger ensemble. Friedrich Wilhelm, known as "the Romantic on the Throne", wished for a triumphal road imitating a Roman via triumphalis leading some two kilometres through Potsdam. He intended to incorporate several already existing buildings as well as temples, palaces and viaducts. Already during his time as Crown Prince, Friedrich Wilhelm studied the Renaissance style and later travelled to Italy drawing inspirations from both. However, because of the political unrest of the period and lack of funding, the project was never fully carried out. The Orangerieschloss as well…
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