Europe's Royals

Spanish Royal Family - The Queen attends a commemorative act for the Spanish participation in the Olympic Games Barcelona And Albertville 1992 at the COE 'Spanish Olympic Committee' in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez) | April 26, 2024

Spanish Royal Family - The King and Queen attends a commemorative act for the Spanish participation in the Olympic Games Barcelona And Albertville 1992 at the COE 'Spanish Olympic Committee' in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez) | April 26, 2024

Dutch Royal Family - The King and Queen attend the Kings Games KBS Klippeholm and CBS Vesterhavet schooon in Hoofddorp, Netherlands. (Photo by Patrick van Katwijk) | April 26, 2024

Dutch Royal Family - The Queen gives high five to children as she attend the Kings Games KBS Klippeholm and CBS Vesterhavet schooon in Hoofddorp, Netherlands. (Photo by Patrick van Katwijk) | April 26, 2024

Dutch Royal Family - The Queen attend the Kings Games KBS Klippeholm and CBS Vesterhavet schooon in Hoofddorp, Netherlands. (Photo by Patrick van Katwijk) | April 26, 2024

British Royal Family - The King and Queen in a new photo released by Buckingham Palace ahead of the first anniversary of their coronation. (Photo by Millie Pilkington) | April 26, 2024

His Majesty The King will shortly return to public-facing duties after a period of treatment and recuperation following his recent cancer diagnosis.

To help mark this milestone, The King and Queen will make a joint visit to a cancer treatment centre next Tuesday, where they will meet medical specialists and patients. This visit will be the first in a number of external engagements His Majesty will undertake in the weeks ahead.

In addition, The King and Queen will host Their Majesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan for a State Visit in June, at the request of HM Government.

As the first anniversary of The Coronation approaches, Their Majesties remain deeply grateful for the many kindnesses and good wishes they have received from around the world throughout the joys and challenges of the past year.

Queen Máxima and King Willem-Alexander at the start of the national opening of the Kings Games at KBS Klippeholm and CBS Vesterhavet in Hoofddorp. April 26, 2024.

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Discover! is the theme of this year's King's Games. Children are challenged to try new things in the field of exercise and healthy food.

In Hoofddorp, the Royal Couple gives the starting signal for the opening of the King's Games. April 26, 2024.

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Alcalá de Henares, 23.04.2024

TM the King and Queen delivered the 2023 Miguel de Cervantes Award to Luis Mateo Díez.

Today the King and Queen hosted a luncheon in honor of the new Miguel de Cervantes Laureate at the Royal Palace.

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Krakow, 24.04.2024

HM Queen Sofía has opened the “36th Global Conference of Alzheimer's Disease International-ADI” and met the International representation attending the Conference.

HRH Princess Muna, mother of HM King Abdullah II of Jordan, was in attendace.

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Just to correct some misunderstandings I’ve seen. The last three monarchs in Luxembourg all abdicated, it’s a tradition much like it is in the Netherlands, and given Henri has reigned for around the same length of time his father and grandmother reigned and has had a lot of controversies in recent years I think it was expected that plans were happening in the background and they’d thought about when it would happen. But they also planned the Queen’s funeral for 60 years before it happened. So Henri saying he plans to abdicate and knows when is really just reiterating something we already knew. He absolutely could announce a date tomorrow but it could also be a decade from now so this isn’t Margrethe 2.0 just yet! Hold off before you start spiralling.

You can hear more about abdications in our podcast episode about it.

-Kungahuset

Victoria previously did basic soldier training at the Swedish Armed Forces International Centre and completed a training programme across the Armed Forces in 2022-23.

Things we know from Louis’ birthday photo today:

- Kensington Palace has assured that the picture has not been edited

- They palace considered not releasing a photo because they were aware of the difficult balance in asking for privacy, then releasing a birthday photo of Louis, but decided to put out the picture as a way of thanking those who had sent birthday wishes

- It was taken in Windsor in the "last few days" by Catherine

- It is an "unprecedented time" for the Prince and Princess of Wales and their young family

- Catherine is continuing with her cancer treatment