I just got home from a business trip only to find out that I have to move out of my place and on top of all that, I discovered that the Coppermine gallery was throwing a “fatal error”.  Well, I just fixed it, so the gallery is now back up.  Sorry about the downtime.

 

It’s pretty obvious that I haven’t updated this blog, the site, or even the gallery (other than updating the software) in a long time.  I have simply lost interest, but didn’t want to outright delete it given all the hard work I’ve put into it.  For now, I am going to keep it up.  If something happens and I decide to scrap the Coppermine gallery, I will post it here on the blog.

I will continue to maintain the site – make sure it’s up and running, get rid of spam, etc.

The gallery is overloaded with spam comments.  I also noticed some spam images had been uploaded recently – those have been deleted and the members who uploaded them (they were just images of Juicy Couture purses and some shoes) have been removed and their IP addresses banned.

I have disabled comments and disabled the ability to register for an account, although you can still see the images.  This is something I am going to have to work on over the next couple of months.

Crown Princess Mary has given birth to a boy and a girl.  Below is a press conference with Crown Prince Frederik in Danish and English (an Australian journalist asks a question in English about two minutes in; another English question comes in around the seven minute mark; another comes around the 10:45 minute mark).

Here is the official press release from the palace:

“A Prince and a Princess are born

On 8 January 2011 Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary gave birth to two healthy children at Righospitalet in Copenhagen.

The son was born at 10.30
Weight: 2674 grams, length 47 cm.

The daughter was born at 10.56
Weight: 2554 grams, length 46 cm.

Mother and children are doing fine.

His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik was present at Rigshospitalet all the time.

Christian Schønau
Chief of the Court of
TRH The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark”

Source

According to The Royal Forums, Crown Princess Mary has been admitted to the hospital and is in labor.  She will be having twins.

Autumn Phillips gave birth to a baby girl on December 29.  She is 8 lbs, 8 oz.  She will be twelfth in line to the throne, even though she does not have a title.  She has not been named yet.

The engagement of Zara Phillips (daughter of HRH the Princess Royal) and Mike Tindall was announced today on the British monarchy’s official website.  No date or venue has been set, since it was just announced.

I’m very excited about this – Zara will be a gorgeous bride.

Congratulations to the happy couple!

Charlene Wittstock was featured on the December 2010 cover of Tatler magazine. There has been some controversy over the remarks she made in this interview, such as the “modernization” of Monaco by opening a Starbucks and Manolo Blahnik boutique (actually, she wanted to “refresh” the retail options in Monaco by opening these and some other stores; I don’t see how this would be “modernizing” anything as it was implied that Monaco already had retail outlets and YES, my reading comprehension skills are quite fine thank you) and that everyone in Monaco was jealous of her, or something. Well, you can read the actual interview yourself if you haven’t gotten a chance to do so by checking out the scans below.  Sorry about the last one – it was a very small image taken from the Table of Contents, and it didn’t turn out so well.

Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel and Prince Carl Philip attended the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, 2010.  They also attended the King’s reception for the laureates on the following night.

 

 

King’s Dinner on December 11

 

 

I’ve been so awful at keeping up with this blog that I haven’t even posted about the Engagement of the Year yet.  However, I am going to make up for it with a bunch of scans, since that’s the easiest way of going about it.

The first set are actually from before the engagement – they were just like every other tedious speculative article and I just ignored it for the most part (I bought one of them while on a trip).  Well anyway, it will be interesting to see if the predictions made in these two article come true, and if the information they contain is at all accurate.

The first is from the October 18, 2010 issue of Life & Style.

This one is from the November 22, 2010 issue of Us Weekly.

 

 

Current scans are below the cut.

Jazmin Grace, daughter of Prince Albert II of Monaco graduated from her high school in June.  She is currently in college.  Point de Vue somehow managed to get photos of the ceremony.