Young Entrepreneurs Luxembourg

The  Hereditary Grand Duke and the Hereditary Grand Duchess recently received representatives of the Jonk Entrepreneuren Luxembourg (Young Entrepreneurs Luxembourg) for an audience. Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume has been the patron of the organisation for about a year.

Photo: Place Royale

The aim of the working meeting was to introduce to the Hereditary Grand Duke to the work and current projects of the association whose aim it is to engage with young people to use initiative, create and innovate and promote responsible entrepreneurial skills. It was founded in 2005 as the Luxembourgish spin-off of Junior Achievement Worldwide.


Source: Place Royale, Genii Capital

Red Cross Meeting

On Tuesday evening, Princess Marie, her brother-in-law Prince Nikolaus and her daughter-in-law Hereditary Princess Sophie attended the annual general meeting of the Liechtenstein Red Cross which took place at the council chamber in Vaduz.

While the Princess is the president of the Liechtenstein Red Cross, Prince Nikolaus is its international delegate. The Hereditary Princess has also been heavily involved with the organisation for many years.

A rather lengthy news report, including an interview with Princess Marie, can be found at 1 FL TV (starting at about 2:20). During the report you will also see an interview with Count Clemens of Waldburg-Zeil, who is the secretary general of the German Red Cross and, moreover, married to Princess Georgina of Liechtenstein, daughter of the late Prince Georg Hartmann and thus cousin of Prince Hans-Adam II. A few pictures are located at Volksblatt.

In case you still don't know why this news made it onto the blog, you missed some of our latest news as Luxarazzi went Liechtenstein.


Source: Liechtensteinisches Rotes Kreuz, 1 FL News

Responsible Investing Conference

This morning, the Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess attended the "ALFI Responsible Investing Conference" at the Chambre de Commerce in Kirchberg. During the course of the conference which dealth with the subject of microfinance, Grand Duchess Maria Teresa gave a speech about the matter of "Mobilising our efforts to make a difference".

Photo: Manuel Dias

The Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) is the representative body of the Luxembourg investment fund community and represents over one thousand Luxembourg domiciled investment funds, asset management companies and a wide range of service providers such as depositary banks, fund administrators, transfer agents, distributors, legal firms, consultants, tax experts, auditors and accountants, specialist IT providers and communication companies.

Picture and more information are available at Tageblatt, Wort, PaperJam, Manuel Dias and on the website of the cour.


Source: ALFI press release, Agenda of the CGD

A Crafting Princess

Last month, the always stunning Princess Sibilla made her way to Bursa in Turkey to take part in the award ceremony of the Luigi Micheletti Award, which honours innovation in museums.

Photo: European Museum Academy

The award, which was given to the Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr in Dresden, Germany this year, is given out in collaboration with the European Museum Academy, of which Princess Sibilla, an art historian herself, is a member of the pool of experts. While in Bursa, the princess also took part in an workshop on traditional crafts.

More pictures of the crafting princess can be found on the website of the European Museum Academy. A video is located on the website of the town of Bursa.


Source: European Museum Academy, Haber Monitör'de

Audience Tuesday

Today, Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa welcomed André Azoulay, in his capacity as the president of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures based in Alexandria, Egypt, at the palais.

Photo: Charles Caratini / Cour grand-ducale

Mr Azoulay also works as a senior advisor to King Mohammed VI of Morocco and works for many other foundations promoting dialogue between cultures and religios. Another picture of the two gentlemen is located on the website of the cour.

Before that, the Grand Duchess also met with Tina Kieffer, Nathalie Saluzzi and Marie-Jeanne Chèvremont-Lorenzini, heads of the Toutes à l'École foundation, whose aim it is to establish schools and educational programmes for girls in development countries, at the palais. Likewise, a picture can be found on the website of the cour.


Source: Agenda of the cour grand-ducale

Visiting Vianden

Yesterday evening, the Hereditary Grand Duke and the Hereditary Grand Duchess visited the city of Vianden near the Luxembourg-German border in the north-east of the country. The visit was part of a series of visits that will be conducted by the couple of the course of this year to get to know the Grand Duchy better. They previously visited Mersch.

Photo: John Lamberty / Luxemburger Wort / Wort.lu

The origins of Vianden date back to the Gallo-Roman age when there was a castellum on the site of the present castle. It was firstly mentioned in 698. Vianden's most prominent feature, which was also visited the the Hereditary Grand Ducal Couple, is its castle located on a rocky promontory above the city. Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie also toured the town to see its different parts such as the Église des Trinitaires and the Victor Hugo Museum, to meet with students, the elderly and many more as well as to inaugurate a fountain.

Photo: John Lamberty / Luxemburger Wort / Wort.lu

Members of the Grand Ducal Family are regular visitors to Vianden, both in official and private functions.

Pictures of this visit can be found at Wort in German, Wort in French, Wort in English, Tageblatt, on the website of the cour and many on the website of the awesome Manuel Dias.


Source: Wort, CGD

Prince Robert Gives Interview

Just a quick heads up, that Prince Robert is featured during a 12 minute-long report about his vineyard Château Haut-Brion by TV7. The report in French is available online. For more information about Prince Robert, his family and his wines, have a look at our Luxarazzi 101 about him.

Pierre Mores Resigns

This morning it was announced that Pierre Mores, the current Maréchal de la Cour, will enter retirement soon and that he will be replaced by Pierre Bley, current director of the Luxembourg Enterprise Union (UEL), in September.

Mr Mores has worked as the head of the grand ducal administration and representative of the family at official functions for the past six years. As a thank you, the Grand Duke granted him the title an Maréchal de la Cour Honoraire.


Source: RTL

A New Research Institution

This morning Grand Duke Henri was on hand for the official opening ceremony of the "Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law". The institute is run by the German Max Planck Gesellschaft which operates about 80 research institutions in Germany as well as abroad. The different institutions conduct basic research in the interest of the general public in the natural, life and social sciences as well as arts and humanities.

A video of the opening can be found at RTL, pictures at Tageblatt.


Source: RTL

Giving the Gift of Literacy

Princess Margaretha recently attended the "Give the Gift of Literacy" lunch at the European Parliament in Brussels which was hosted by Nirj Deva, a British member of the parliament. The Luxembourg-Liechtenstein princess has been the patron of Dyslexia International for many years. The aim of the luncheon was to thank all the foundations's sponsors, in particular those who supported its eCampus, an open education resource offering high quality, free, online training for teachers and is available in English and French.

A picture is located on the website of Dyslexia International who also have more information about the event.


Source: Dyslexia International