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Crown Princess Victoria Dines With Monaco’s Prince Albert II

Victoria and Albert dined together last night – Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Prince Albert II of Monaco, that is. Victoria & Albert

The future Swedish Queen was a guest of honor for the Monagesque ruler’s charity gala for cancer research. Dressed in a cream colored, haltar top dress and haired pulled back in a bun, Victoria reminded many of a dark haired Princess Grace.

But this Princess was alone when she arrived on the red carpet. Her fiance, Daniel Westling, was invited to the dinner, but could not attend. Daniel is still in recovery from his kidney transplant back in May. Doctors say it is best for those who’ve had the operation to avoid public places as much as possible, so an infection would not happen. Furthermore, flying on planes is not an issue.

Despite this, Victoria seemed to enjoy herself last night. She was all smiles as she sat next to Prince Albert, whom the Crown Princess shared a drink with back at his palace before the gala.

Even the Prince seemed excited to have Victoria at the dinner.

“Albert, how does it feel to have Victoria at your private party?” members of the media asked him as Albert walked the red carpet.

“Wonderful, fantastic!” said Prince Albert, laughing and giving the thumbs up.

Also at the gala was Luxembourg’s Prince Guillaume and Princess Sybilla, Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz of Belgium, and Hollywood actor Kevin Costner.

October 10th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Monaco, Sweden | Leave a comment

British Royals Commemorate Soldiers Killed In Iraq

Friday morning saw the United Kingdom honor the 179 soldiers who died in the Iraq war. The memorial service took place at St. Paul’s Cathedral, and Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Prince William were in attendance.

AP Photo/David Parker

AP Photo/David Parker

None of the royals spoke at the service. They sat quietly as Iraqi President Jalal Talabani thanked the troops for their duty.

“My brief words today cannot convey the great debt, and gratitude, of the Iraqi people to those men and women who joined in the liberating of Iraq,” he said.

The royals also listened to criticism of the war by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.

“The conflict in Iraq will, for a long time yet, exercise the historians, the moralists, the international experts,” Williams said. “In a world as complicated as ours has become, it would be a very rash person who would feel able to say without hesitation, this was absolutely the right or the wrong thing to do, the right or the wrong place to be.”

Also at the service were former Prime Minister Tony Blair, current Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and the families of the troops who died in Iraq.

Britain pulled its troops out of the country this April, six years after it joined the United States to topple Saddam Hussein’s regime. About 100,000 servicemen and women had spent time in Iraq.

October 10th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: United Kingdom | Leave a comment