We have a great new submission to “Mandy’s Artists”. Check out the pencil sketch of HRH Princess Anne. Remarkable!

Even though Crown Princess Mette-Marit is only 33 years old, the Royal Palace in Oslo decided to go ahead with a biography about her life up until this point.

Mette-Marit’s fairytale thus far – from waitress and single mother to future Queen of Norway – is going to “draw a complete picture of the person Mette-Marit, with her many roles and who within a short period of time had her life changed forever,” said the book’s author Halfdan Freihow.

The book is due this autumn.

Happily, the Countess of Wessex is pregnant with her second child.

HRH has had a lot of difficulty with previous pregnancies, so with every best wish, congratulations to Sophie, Prince Edward, the Queen, and the rest of the family!

theage.com.au:

The daughter of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and Australian-born Crown Princess Mary has been named Isabella.

The Danish royal family’s official website said the princess had been christened Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe.