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A brand new podcast profiling the monarchs and monarchies of the world, hosted by @danielrosney.bsky.social Subscribe here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/its-reigning-men/id1787668535
You can hear our conversation wherever you get your podcasts
It’s Reigning Men is a the podcast about monarchy in the 21st century
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Princess Delphine invited It’s Reigning Men to her home in Brussels to discuss her art, her truth, and her identity
What did that long battle cost her?
Eventually, she won a court-ordered DNA test, a landmark decision
In her 50s, she was formally acknowledged as the King’s daughter and granted the title of Princess
She spent years trying to get the King to recognize her
First privately, then through the courts
His denial persisted for decades
At 18, Delphine Boël discovered her biological father was King Albert II of Belgium
He refused to acknowledge her
Her story is one of legal battles, royal resistance, and a fight for truth
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. @plagasse.bsky.social and I discussed King Charles III, King of Canada with @danielrosney.bsky.social on the @itsreigningmen.bsky.social podcast! Listen here:
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What should the King of Canada do about Donald Trump’s wish for Canada to be the 51st state of the USA?
The King has invited the President to the UK on a state visit, but what about Canadians?
This week’s pod is all about Charles III as Canada’s monarch:
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The latest epsiode of our podcast series is about how Bhutan measures its sucess through wellbeing/ happiness with the country’s Prime Minister walking us through it. Take a listen! 😊 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
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The latest epsiode of our podcast series is about how Bhutan measures its sucess through wellbeing/ happiness with the country’s Prime Minister walking us through it. Take a listen! 😊 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
10.03.2025 22:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The latest episode of our podcast series is all about Bhutan measuring its success with happiness 😊
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🇳🇴 Europe’s eldest king turns 88 this week, but why do we view aging monarchs differently to aging presidents?
Plus how recent scandals in the royal family are affecting support for Norway’s monarchy and King Harald V
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But that’s not the only scandal to hit the Luxembourg monarchy during Grand Duke Henri’s reign
To find out more listen and subscribe to my podcast It’s Reigning Men now, with another episode coming this weekend
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In both the Belgian and Dutch cases a solution was found
But in Luxembourg the Grand Duke’s refusal to sign the bill was causing a constitutional crisis and officials were concerned he could try to prevent future laws
So, they changed the constitution to strip him of that power
🇳🇱 Shortly after the end of World War II, The Netherlands had a “conscientious objector” of its own with its monarch at the time
Queen Juliana in 1951 and 1952 refused to sign the death warrants of four Nazis known as the Breda Four
Instead they were sentenced to life in prison
The work around?
King Baudouin of the Belgians asked the government to declare him unfit to rule for 24 hours
The constitution stated if the king was unfit to rule the government assumed the role of head of state
So, for one day Belgium had no monarch and the bill was signed
🇧🇪 There was precedent for this in neighbouring Belgium where officials there had found a way around the then King Baudouin’s refusal to sign a bill legalising abortion in 1990
Again the monarch claimed his catholic faith prevented him from approving the legislation
Henri, a devout Catholic, said he couldn’t sign the bill because of “reasons of conscience”
Officials were blindsided by his decision because the democratically elected parliament had voted to legalise euthanasia, and had wrongly assumed the monarch would sanction the law
🇱🇺 This is Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg - who’s stepping down later this year
Eight years into his reign, in 2008, he caused a constitutional crisis when he tried to use his ‘veto power’ to stop a euthanasia bill
Henri’s approval and signature was needed for it to become law
Since World War II three European monarchs have refused to sign a bill/ give royal assent - despite the legislation being passed by parliament
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🧵So what happened in Luxembourg, Belgium and The Netherlands?
Another episode of It’s Reigning Men out now
🇸🇪 This time it’s all about Europe’s longest-reigning monarch: Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf
Stripped of all political power, has he maintained the monarchy’s relevancy?
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Interested in modern monarchy?
The first episode of It’s Reigning Men is out now!
The brand new podcast series all about modern monarchs is out now: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
This week we're in Denmark hearing about the beginnings of a scandal, how the new king "upset" businesses in 2024 after a “shaky start”, and how far he can go with Donald Trump over Greenland
More than 40 countries in the world still have a monarchy
None of those monarchs are women
With this new series - It’s Reigning Men - I’ll explore who these men are born into palaces and privilege
First ep out Sunday - pls subscribe wherever you listen to pods: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
