The Royal Fanzine

Just like their commoner counterparts-their subjects, people of other lands, etc.-Royals like animals, and keep them as pets. Granted, some of these animals are more unconventional-i.e. many royal families take claim to the Royal Zoo animals…take Great Britian or Monaco for example: In Great Britain, not only does the Sovereign take claim to her private animals such as dogs or horses, but to several exotic animals in the London Zoo. In Monaco, Prince Rainier started a zoo in 1954 that once held two hundred fifty animals that includes many animals including: elephants, an Arabian camel, exotic birds, a black panther, white tiger, hippopotamus, reptiles, primates, lemurs, among others. Marcia Tracy  and  Ashley Michael explored the four-legged friends of royal families from Belgium, Great Britain, Denmark, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and more! Belgium Queen Paola walking her Bull Terrier Prince Laurent & Princess Claire have a Jack Russel Terrier nam...

Felix Friedrich August Maria vom Siege Franz Joseph Peter Karl Anton Robert Otto Pius Michael Benedikt Sebastian Ignatius Marcus d'Aviano Marcia Tracy explores the life of this former Austrian Archduke. Born: 31 May 1916 Died: 6 September 2011 Archduke Felix was the third son, and fourth child, and last surviving child of the last Austrian Emperor Charles I and his wife Empress Zita of Austria. He was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He was a younger brother of the late Crown Prince Otto of Austria . Archduke Felix was born in the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna the third son of the then heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary the Archduke Charles and his wife Zita of Bourbon-Parma. He was christened at Schönbrunn on 8 June 1916 in the presence of his great-grand uncle Emperor Franz Joseph while his godfather was his great-uncle King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, brother of his grandmother Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony. On 21 November 1916 the Emperor F...

Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco Born:  17 June 1930 Died: 4 September 2011 Princess Lalla Aicha was the aunt to Morocco's current reigning monarch, King Mohammed VI of Morraco. Princess Lalla Aicha was the eldest sister of King Mohammed VI's father. She was an ambassador to many countries for Morocco throughout her life. Marcia Tracy explores the life of this worldly Morrocan Princess. Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco was the oldest daughter of the late King Mohammad V and Lalla Abla Bint Tahar. Early on, she was an activist for equal rights for men and women. In 1947, at the age of 17, she gave a speech in Tangiers demanding voting rights for women. She was one of the first women in the arab world to hold diplomantic postions, serving for several years in several different countries in the 1960s and 1970s. She was Morocco's ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1965-1969, Greece from 1969-1970, and Italy from 1970-1973. The Princess was remembered by ma...

Some things remain the same. Mother worries about her little ones going off to school. Do they have enough food in their lunch boxes? Do they have the no-talking-to-strangers code drilled into their skulls enough times? Are the buckles on their shoes too tight, or loose enough to become unfastened, and thereby cause them to trip and suffer a sprained ankle, or worse? Of course, royal moms have a lot of assistance. The bodyguards are there, in the shadow of the royal kids' every step, and the nannies and cooks at the palace ensure no little high-born darlings are going to be underfed or neglected in anyway.  Of more pressing concern to the royal moms of Generation Z, perhaps, are things like texting or tweeting when they should be attending to the lessons. Bullying, too, is a potential, and much more serious problem. Just look at what happened to poor Princess Aiko of Japan! Aiko's uncle Akishino and his wife, Kiko, decided not to send their little son,...

While Katie Nicholl and crew @GMA would say, unequivocally, that 2011 has been the Year of The Duchess of Cambridge, we at @TheRoyalFanzine have something to say about that! Of course, it is true that the Royal Duchess Formerly Known as Catherine Elizabeth Middleton has had more magazine covers than her 17-years-older aunt-in-law. As Catherine Middleton alone--forget about her marital covers--she was on the cover of People magazine, and even made Vanity Fair's best-dressed list, almost every year of the last decade. Sophie? Sure, she's been mentioned in those magazines a few times. She was even on the cover of People at the times of her engagement and marriage to Prince Edward in 1999. But mostly, she's lucky to be on the cover of Majesty or Hello! I mean, let's face it. Most People readers are likely to furrow their brows in some confusion if you ask them what they think about Sophie, The Countess of Wessex. -Sophie? Countess of Where? -Prince Edward's wife. ...