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Expat surprised to learn grand duke doesn’t actually rule country

September 25, 2018

Expat surprised to learn grand duke doesn’t actually rule country

KOFFISPILLEN —  A man who has lived in Luxembourg for nearly a decade says he’s dumbfounded after being told that Luxembourg’s reigning monarch doesn’t actually rule the country. Anthony Ludarki, 35, who was transferred to Luxembourg in early 2009, says he always understood that Grand Duke Henri enjoyed the broad and nearly absolute power for […]

Filed Under: Expats, Featured Article, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Politics and Government, Royal Family of Luxembourg

Opinion: Luxembourg would be cooler if the Grand Duke rode around on a big horse and abused peasants

July 9, 2018

Growing up on another continent, I always had a romantic image of European monarchs living in castles and hosting lavish banquets where lords and ladies drank wine, danced, and made the court jester wear a hog’s head and run around on all fours, snorting and bumping into things. I also imagined that in their free […]

Filed Under: Europe, Expats, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Opinion, Royal Family of Luxembourg

Opinion: Fireworks, again? By Grand Duke Henri

June 21, 2018

Grand Duke Henri: fireworks, again?

Thanks everyone for coming out tonight to celebrate my birthday. It means a lot that all 184,394 of you are here, and please, if you’d like a drink, help yourselves. We’ve got a few thousand bottles of crémant in the cellar, and Guillaume drove back from Diekirch this afternoon with a bunch of beer. Her […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Leisure and Lifestyle, Luxembourg City, Luxembourgish Customs, Royal Family of Luxembourg

Oops! Grand Duke loses Luxembourg in late-night poker game

February 21, 2018

Grand Duke Henri Poker

MONTE CARLO — Shocking residents, officials, and royal observers alike, Luxembourg’s reigning monarch briefly lost the Grand Duchy to Spain on Wednesday night in a game of high-stakes poker. The game, played between His Royal Highness Grand Duke Henri, Spain’s King Felipe, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, and several other monarchs, quickly went from being […]

Filed Under: Europe, Featured Article, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Royal Family of Luxembourg

Luxembourg newsagent clearly has crush on Grand Duke

November 29, 2017

Luxembourg newsagent clearly has crush on Grand Duke

LUXEMBOURG-VILLE — Denying all claims that he has a crush on the reigning monarch, a newsagent in the city center nevertheless has shown an unusual fondness for displaying in his shop portraits of Grand Duke Henri. “I only put them there for my customers, many of whom are Luxembourgish and like that sort of respectful […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Royal Family of Luxembourg

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