News about the royals in the GALA ticker: Prince Hitachi was operated +++ 2023 will be a challenging year for Princess Madeleine’s husband Chris ‘O Neill +++ This is how Marie and Louis Ducruet celebrated their anniversary.
Royal News 2023 in the GALA ticker
March 4, 2023
Prince Hitachi needed surgery
Prince Hitachi, 87, had to be admitted to the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center in Tokyo a few days ago after a worrying attack of fever, the court official said. Emperor Naruhito’s uncle, 63, was treated for a fever in the clinic on February 28. Now the Imperial House has announced that the 87-year-old had surgery on Thursday, March 2, for ureteral stones. He is recovering well, the court told the Japanese news agency Kyodo News.
Prince Hitachi is the younger brother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito, 89. He is third and last in line to the Japanese throne, which excludes women from the throne.
March 3, 2023
Princess Madeleine: 2023 will be a challenging year for husband Chris ‘O Neill
Chris O’Neill, 48, is considered public shy in the Swedish press. So it doesn’t fit that he is the husband of Princess Madeleine, 40, who is often the focus of attention. Now a year is waiting for him with two big royal anniversaries: on the one hand, the 50th anniversary of King Carl Gustaf, 76, and on the other hand the 500th anniversary of the election of Gustav I Vasa as King of Sweden. There will be some celebrations as well as Crown Princess Victoria’s 45th birthday in July. Many occasions when Princess Madeleine is expected in Sweden – and also her husband Chris.
The British-American entrepreneur is now facing a challenging time, the Swedish newspaper “Svensk Damtidining” is sure. Chris O’Neill rarely appears in public with the royal family. He is also hardly seen at Princess Madeleine’s public appointments on behalf of the crown and was absent from Victoria’s big birthday party in the summer of 2022 on Öland. The father of three is said to not particularly like being in the limelight, once rejected the title of prince and prefers to go about his business as a private individual. A year full of big celebrations, where Chris is also expected to shine with his rare presence, could probably be all the more difficult.
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March 2, 2023
Louis Ducruet celebrates 11th anniversary with wife Marie
Marie and Louis Ducruet, both 30, have been going through life together for eleven years, four years ago they said yes. Soon the first child together will make the love happiness of the Monegas perfect – it will be a girl! But before Marie and Louis have to do without togetherness for the time being, they celebrated their anniversary to the fullest on March 1, 2023. “Cheers to our 11th anniversary,” Marie writes about a black and white collage of her loved one.
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In another Instagram story, she reveals where she celebrated the special occasion – and with whom: The parents-to-be dined at the “Chez Pierre” restaurant in Monte-Carlo, accompanied by their dog, “French cuisine with an international touch is served here ” served.
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Prince Hitachi: Emperor Naruhito’s uncle weakened under medical treatment
Disturbing news from the Japanese imperial family: Prince Hitachi, 87, has been admitted to the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center in Tokyo after suffering a worrying bout of fever. Emperor Naruhito’s uncle, 63, suffers from a stuffy and runny nose but has tested negative for both the flu and COVID-19, the court official said. His poor health was also related to his old age, it said.
The prince was treated in the clinic on February 28, 2023 at almost 37 degrees Celsius. If a slightly elevated temperature in Europeans starts at 37.5 degrees Celsius, the values in Japan for the onset of fever are much lower according to the government there: A body temperature of 37.5 degrees Celsius is considered a serious illness in the country. However, after Hitachi’s fever subsided relatively quickly, he was released. But now, to the disquiet of his compatriots, he seems to have relapsed again.
March 1, 2023
Count Nikolai: Done! He’s finally rid of his apartment
New year, new luck: 2023 apparently has some welcome surprises in store for Count Nikolai von Monpezat, 23. Shortly after the successful start of his Instagram account, he made the professional leap to the renowned Paris model agency Elite. Now a long-standing problem has also disappeared overnight: a purchase contract has finally been signed for his apartment, which Prince Joachim’s son, 53, has been offering for a year and a half, like sour beer, as “Ekstra Bladet” reports.
For a long time, the calculation of making a profit out of the hot housing market in the Danish capital Copenhagen did not work out for the Count. And this despite the fact that he has lowered the price of his apartment several times in order to still get it to the man or woman. Several times Nikolai invited to visit his former home. In September 2021, before moving to Paris to study, he still asked for 738,198 euros. According to “Se og Hør”, after a few discounts, in January 2023 he only asked 604,461 euros for the exclusive apartment in the classic Copenhagen property from 1880. Not only Nikolai, also real estate agent Bille Lyngfeldt Halberg-Lange, who handled the sale of the apartment for the count, now apparently ticks three boxes: “We took over the apartment from another agent and encountered a difficult market that is no longer there is so challenging,” he told Ekstra Bladet. “Fortunately, the apartment has been sold.”
February 28, 2023
Princess Leonor surprisingly traveled to Spain
Princess Leonor, 17, is actually studying in Wales, but she also pays a visit to her home country from time to time – preferably under the radar. Just like last weekend. As the news portal “Vanitatis” reports, the heir to the throne landed in Madrid on Thursday, February 23, 2023. According to the publication, there was no particular reason, but Leonor is said to have used her stay in Spain to visit her old school, Santa María de los Rosales. On Friday, February 24, she was there at 12 a.m. to greet her former classmates. Leonor is said to have come home secretly at the end of January to surprise her father, King Felipe, 55, on his birthday. So far, the court has not wanted to comment on the princess’s flying visit.
February 27, 2023
Queen Margrethe was operated on – but Prince Joachim is not to be seen
On February 22, 2023, Queen Margrethe, 82, had to undergo “extensive back surgery”, which the monarch survived well. Shortly after the operation, she was doing “well, given the circumstances”, as the court was able to report. One day after the operation, Margrethe was visited by Prince Frederik, 54, and Princess Mary, 51. Also on the way to the airport – the crown prince couple is currently on an official trip to India – Mary and Frederik have paid another visit to the Queen, according to Head of Communications Lene Balleby. However, the 82-year-old waits in vain for her younger son, Prince Joachim, 53, to visit her.
“No, the prince did not visit her,” the royal family’s communications department replies when asked by the newspaper “Ekstra Bladet”. A clear answer that leaves no questions unanswered: not even “not yet” or “not yet” is mentioned, Joachim doesn’t seem to have any plans to visit his mother. The publication also wants to know that Prince Joachim’s four children have not yet seen their grandmother. The family is currently enjoying a skiing vacation together, and Graf Nikolai, 23, is busy sharing photos from the vacation on Instagram.
But these have a bitter aftertaste, after all there are holidays in Paris from February 19th to March 5th. So Joachim would have had more than enough time to help his mother and brother who had gone away as Reich Executive in Denmark. Instead, Margrethe’s younger sister Princess Benedikte, 78, was installed as Reich Executive for a few days. According to Kim Bach, royal commentator on “Ekstra Bladet”, this is a clear signal:
It suggests that Prince Joachim and Queen Margrethe are not speaking to each other.
The reason: An operation at this age is a “serious matter”. The fact that Prince Joachim doesn’t even come to visit “reinforces the impression of the cold relationship between mother and son,” Bach believes, emphasizing: The family is “obviously still tense.”
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Count Nikolai enjoys a break in the snow with his loved ones
There are sad weeks behind Count Nikolai, 23. The eldest son of Prince Joachim, 53, from his marriage to Countess Alexandra, 58, had to bury his grandmother Christa Manley, † 89, on February 27, 2023. But now the Danish royal scion can laugh a little again. This is at least rarely shown by private insights from the skiing holiday, which he is currently showing on his recently launched Instagram channel. “Back at it” [zu Deutsch: “Wieder am Start”] he comments on the happy series of photos, which, like his posting of February 4, shows him enjoying winter skiing. And this time, in addition to his girlfriend Benedikte Thoustrup, he has brought two surprise guests: his two half-siblings, Count Henrik, 13, and Countess Athena, 11. They seem to really enjoy being with their big brother.
One picture shows Nikolai helping little Henrik onto the roof of a log cabin. The not entirely harmless mission was successful: the two of them are standing together high up on the roof in the next photo and enjoying the certainly remarkable view. Other photos show Nikolai putting on his ski helmet, at the open hut door and, smiling happily, on skis and ready to go with his two half-siblings. In one picture, he even treats his now around 35,000 fans to the view of snow-covered mountain peaks, which Nikolai enjoys from the bed of his cabin bedroom. About an hour after the royal model, Benedikte shared a photo of yourself, which shows her in front of these very peaks, with a hot cup of tea in front of her. Not only the mountains, but also the balcony and rattan chairs are the same as in Nikolai’s picture. It seems that the student is now an integral part of the royal family ties.
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Sources used: svenskdam.se, instagram.com, teda.dk, Vanitatis, seoghoer.dk, ekstrabladet.dk, kunaicho.go.jp, kyodonews.ne