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Monday, 6 April 2020

0348 Royal Family of Sweden

Sent  21.03.2020
Recieved 01.04.2020
Travel time 8 days

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Saturday, 4 April 2020

0327 Dutch Royal Family

Sent: 07.02.2020
Received: 14.02.2020
Travel time: 7 days

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Saturday, 12 January 2019

Friday, 11 January 2019

0214 Russia Card Princess Irina Romanov ca. 1925

Sent: 13.12.2018
Received 03.01.2019
Travel time 20 days

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Wiki:

Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Княжна Ирина Александровна Романова; 15 July (OS: 3 July) 1895 – 26 February 1970) was the only daughter and eldest child of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. She was also the only niece of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, and the wife of the wealthiest man in Imperial Russia, Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, one of the men who murdered Grigori Rasputin, "holy healer" to her cousin, the hemophiliac Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, in 1916.

Friday, 2 March 2018

0067 Prince Harry and Ms Megan announcing their wedding

Sent: 23.02.2018
Received 01.03.2018
Travel time: 6 days
Sender: Terry from FB (direct swap) - thank you!




Prince Henry of Wales, known as Prince Harry, is the second son of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales. He and Meghan Markle, an American actress best known for her role in Suits, have been in a relationship since June 2016. The relationship was first acknowledged on 8 November 2016, when an official statement was released from the royal family's communications secretary addressing the "wave of abuse and harassment" directed toward Markle.
On 27 November 2017, Clarence House announced that Prince Harry would marry Meghan Markle in the spring of 2018.They were engaged earlier the same month in London, with the Prince giving Markle a bespoke engagement ring made by Cleave and Company, consisting of a large central diamond from Botswana, with two smaller diamonds from his mother's jewellery collection. At the same time, it was announced that they would live at Nottingham Cottage in the grounds of Kensington Palace following their marriage.
As Harry is fifth in the line of succession to the British throne,[6][notes 2] he must obtain royal permission to marry under the Succession to the Crown Act 2013.[notes 3] The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh expressed their delight at the news, while congratulations came in from various political leaders, including the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, and the Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn. After the announcement, the couple gave an exclusive interview to Mishal Husain of BBC News. (wiki)

0062 Royal couple of Sweden

Sent: 22.02.2018
Received: 01.03.2018
Travel time: 7 days

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Carl XVI Gustaf (full name: Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus; born 30 April 1946) is the King of Sweden. He ascended the throne on the death of his grandfather, King Gustaf VI Adolf on 15 September 1973. He is the youngest child and only son of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. His father died on 26 January 1947 in an airplane crash in Denmark when Carl Gustaf was nine months old. Upon his father's death, he became second in line to the throne, after his grandfather, Gustaf VI Adolf. Following the death of Gustav V in 1950, Gustaf Adolf ascended the throne and thus Carl Gustaf became Sweden's new crown prince and heir-apparent to the throne at the age of 4.
A short while after he became King in 1973, the new 1974 Instrument of Government took effect, formally stripping him of any formal role in the legislative process, and several other duties normally accorded to a head of state, such as the formal appointment of the prime minister, signing off legislation, and being commander-in-chief of the nation's military. The new instrument explicitly limits the king to ceremonial functions and, among other things, to be regularly informed of affairs of state. As head of the Royal House of Bernadotte Carl Gustaf has also been able to make a number of government supported decisions about the titles and positions of its members.
The king's heir apparent, upon passage on 1 January 1980 of a new law establishing absolute primogeniture (the first such law passed in European history), is Crown Princess Victoria, the eldest child of the king and his wife, Queen Silvia.
Carl Gustaf is the second longest-reigning monarch in Swedish history after King Magnus IV, having overtaken Gustaf V in 2016.

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