You may have noticed...

You may have noticed that a few things have changed here. I changed the colors and layout. I also added the photograph to the header. That is a picture of Luxembourg in case you haven't worked that out on your own. I may alternate pics of Luxembourg and banners featuring photographs of Luxembourg royals. I'm not a professional website builder so be patient with me. I also added a clock with Luxembourg time and a b-day countdown currently set on Guillaume.

I added a links section. This isn't an extensive section of links, but it's not a bad selection either. If you have a favorite to add send it over and I'll drop it in. Most of these links concern Luxembourg royals with some general information sites included.

Grand Duke receives ambassador

On Thursday The Grand Duke accepted the credentials of Elisabeth Simbrão the new ambassador of Angola to Luxembourg, Belgium and The Netherlands. Ambassador Simbrão and The Grand Duke discussed current issues of politics, economics and social problems in Angola.

Grand Duke helps celebrate the birthday of the CFL

This year marks the 150th anniversary of railway travel in Luxembourg. The first lines being opened on 4-5 October 1859. The celebrations have been going on all year. On Thursday the leaders of CFL (Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Luxembourgeois) held an academic meeting at the theater where they received noted guests including The Grand Duke.  

More information about the year long celebration can be found here.

Grand Duke Jean and family - updated

Grand Duke Jean in the company of his children attended the annual concert remembering Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte. I found pictures on Manuel Dias' website. This event will surely be mentioned later in the day or tomorrow morning on the official website.

There is a video of the event here and includes footage of the family. I cannot begin to tell you all the errors in the video concerning the GD family....the concert was to honor Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte who died in 2005. It was Grand Duchess Charlotte who died in 1985 and was known for her nationalism and exile during the war. In attendance were Grand Duke Jean, widower of Josephine-Charlotte, and her 5 children none her grand children were in attendance.

Photos of Fashion show

Manuel Dias has a gallery of images of the Natan fashion show that was held last week in the presence of the Grand Duchess to benefit the Luxembourg Red Cross.

Prince Robert assists in raising money for charity

Prince Robert has assisted in raising $250,000 for the charity Grapes of Humanity. The funds raised at this particular event will go to The Viola Wheeler Music Program for disabled children and to the Les Climats du Coeur which feeds the hungry in Beaune, France.

For those of you who are unaware of who Prince Robert of Luxembourg is I offer this information. Prince Robert is the only son of the late Prince Charles of Luxembourg and his American wife Joan Douglas Dillion (now Duchess de Mouchy). Prince Charles was the son of Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Felix. Therefore, Prince Robert is the nephew of Grand Duke Jean and the first cousin of Grand Duke Henri. He has one sibling, Princess Charlotte of Luxembourg who is now married and living in the UK. He is married to Princess Julie of Nassau (nee Ongaro) and has 3 children all of whom are styled HRH Prince/ss of Nassau. Some of you will recall that that the wife and children of Prince Robert were upgraded to Count/ess of Nassau and later Prince/ss of Nassau at the same time as the family of Prince Jean.

Chateau Haut-Brion

Grand Duke attends Luxembourg Open

Grand Duke Henri attended the second round match between Belgian Yanina Wickmayer against France's Alize Cornet yesterday at the WTA BGL Luxembourg Open tennis tournament, in Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg.



There are more than 100 pages of pictures of the Open on Belga but only 2 pics of Papp that I saw and I admit I didn't look at all 100 pages. 

Translator and stuff

I put a little translator over there ----------->>.

All you have to do is select the language you prefer to read in and presto life is easier. I'm a big fan of "work smarter not harder" so I try to make things as easy as possible for those of you who venture here for your Luxembourg news. I did this because I notice that several readers are having to link here from another site using a translator. This should make things a little easier for you.

Also, I cannot control what videos pop up on the video bar. I can only set key words. So if you're making a video over on youtube for have uploaded something related to the Grand Ducal Family use Prince Felix of Luxembourg instead of just Felix, ect... I changed the words I have been using to receive videos today so that it will filter out some of the unrelated crap and bring in more videos. If you are the owner of a youtube channel that has Luxembourg or royal related videos or if you have a favorite channel send over the name of that channel and I can link it directly so that those videos will rotate in and out of the display.

As usual, if you have questions, comments, concerns, requests, info/pics to add or rants...I'm (usually) listening. If you have something to say and English isn't your preferred language send it over anyway. I'm sure we can babelfish out your meaning or I can have another evil genius give me the Cliffs Notes of it.

Grand Duke to host audience

Papp is hosting an audience with the Prime Minster and Finance Minster of Serbia this afternoon. There is an article here.  At some point in the afternoon we will get the typical single photograph of this on the official website. In expectation of this I'm just going to go ahead and link the area where it will appear.

Photos and Vid from fashion show

Tagblatt has some photos and a video from the Natan fashion show that benefited the Luxembourg Red Cross in the presence of the Grand Duchess.

It is also now mentioned on the official website. 

Wort is also carrying an article with a photo gallery.