Biographies

Portraits of the royals, from childhood to the present day.

Queen Máxima
She was a banker in New York when she met a man who called himself simply Alexander. He was the Crown Prince of the Netherlands. Today the Argentine economist…
Prince William
William was 15 when his mother died, and walked behind her coffin through London while the world watched. Today he is Prince of Wales, a father of three and…
Queen Sonja
Sonja Haraldsen from the Vinderen district of Oslo became Norway's queen in 1991, the first in 53 years. From the wedding in 1968 until King Harald died in…
Princess Astrid, Mrs Ferner
King Olav's younger daughter became Norway's first lady at the age of 22 and went on representing the royal house for more than seventy years. She gave up the…