Royalty

T here is no school Friday in San Antonio. Don’t worry about making appointments or returning calls. We should be exhausted from partying all week at Fiesta . On Friday we are all expected to go downtown and thrill as the floats with Queens (seriously), Duchesses and miles of marching bands snake through the city, while we gorge on gorditas. Our royalty represent our city so well – although I can’t imagine anything I’d want them to do for me, or why they exist at all. Just look at these photos of the Investiture of King Antonio LXXXVII. Although they might look like Five ... Read Full Story

Sitting on top of their parents’ shoulders, the three little Princesses of the Netherlands squealed with excitement as they welcomed the Dutch version of Santa Claus over the weekend. www.koninklijkhuis.nl Catharina-Amalia 5, Alexia 4, and Ariane, 2, were part of a large crowd in Scheveningen, a coastal town near The Hague. Like most of the other kids, they wore the costumes associated with Sinterklaas, as the Dutch call St. Nicholas. Amalia wore his cape, while her younger sisters wore the Zwarte Piet caps. Zwarte Piet are Sinterklaas’ helpers. The welcoming of Sinterklaas is a major tradition in Holland. Songs are sung as he walks ... Read Full Story

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth This morning, members of the British royal family took part in the annual Remembrance Sunday, a day where Britain’s war dead are commemorated. Originally intended to remember those who died fighting in World War I, Remembrance Sunday now is for the soldiers who were killed in World War II, and the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wearing red paper poppies on their coats, Queen Elizabeth II and her grandsons, Princes William and Harry, laid floral wreaths at the Cenotaph, London’s biggest war memorial. A moment a silence came at 11 am local time, which was broken by a gun salute and ... Read Full Story

Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images/FILE The Duke and Duchess of Vendome – Prince Jean & Princess Philomena – welcomed into the world today a baby boy! The little one is named Gaston, a name traditionally used by the House of Orleans. It is not known yet how much he weighs or how long he is. Prince Gaston is the eighth grandchild of the Count of Paris, who is the head of the deposed French royal family. Since the little boy’s father is the heir, that makes Gaston a future heir to the House of Orleans. The son’s parents married earlier this year – civilly in ... Read Full Story

Whoops! Prince Harry is, once again, back to being a royal embarrassment. This time he takes on black folks telling black comic, Stephen K. Amos , last November that he didn’t "sound like a black chap." To which the comic wanted to respond, ‘How is I supposed to sound?’" Apparently, Prince Harry was just trying to make a funny. Oh well, at least nobody can accuse him of being a wet blanket. Prince Harry certainly keeps the royal family in the news. If he isn’t offending a Pakastani army officer, he’s doing questionably homoerotic things with his platoon mates, or sitting in the desert ... Read Full Story