Real-life Princesses
Ever wonder
if there were any real-life princesses left in this world?
There are, but very few, some of these princesses are well-known and
some unknown. What if one day you discovered that YOU had
royal blood in your family or are even an
actual princess? What if you married a
prince and became a princess?
Or if that doesn't seem likely, you may just like
reading about princesses,
watch princess movies and
pretend you live in a castle and
still be a princess, because every girl deserves to be a princess!
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Princess Madeleine of Sweden
1982-present
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Princess Madeleine of Sweden
Her Royal Highness, Madeleine Thérèse Amelie Josephine,
Duchess of Helsingia and Gestricia, is the youngest child of King Carl
XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden. She is third in line of
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Crown Princess Mary Elizabeth of Denmark
1972-present
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Crown Princess of Denmark
Mary Elizabeth
On 14 May 2004, the Crown Prince married Mary Elizabeth
Donaldson, who in connection with the marriage became HRH Crown
Princess Mary of Denmark. The wedding ceremony took place in
Copenhagen Cathedral, and the wedding festivities were held at
Fredensborg Palace.
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Princess Letizia of Spain
1972-present
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Princess Letizia of Spain
TV anchorwoman
Letizia Ortiz was already a prime-time celebrity in Spain when she
married Prince Felipe. Letizia and Felipe met over an oil spill - she
reporting on the wreck of the tanker Prestige in late 2002 and he
there in an official capacity. She married Prince Felipe of
Spain in 1993. |
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Queen Rania of Jordan
1970-present
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Queen Rania of Jordan
Her Majesty Queen
Rania Al-Abdullah (formerly Rania Al-Yasin) was born in Kuwait on
August 31, 1970 to a notable Jordanian family of Palestinian origin.
She completed her primary and secondary education in Kuwait and in
1991 obtained a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the
American University in Cairo. She married King Abdullah Bin
Al-Hussein of Jordan on June 10, 1993 and became Queen.
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Queen Beatrix
1938-present
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Princess and Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands
The Princess was born at Soestdijk
Palace in Baarn, where she lived until May 1940, when, on the German
invasion of the Netherlands, the family left for the United Kingdom.
From there, Princess Beatrix and her younger sister Irene, who was
born in 1939, moved with their mother to Ottawa in Canada. It was not
until five years later, that the family, with the third child,
Margriet, born in Canada in 1943, again set foot on Dutch soil.
On 31 January 1956, Princess Beatrix
celebrated her 18th birthday. From that date, under the Constitution
of the Netherlands, she was entitled to assume the royal prerogative.
On 30 April 1980, Queen Juliana signed the Act of Abdication and
Princess Beatrix succeeded her as Queen of the Netherlands.
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Princess Zara Philips
1981-present |
Princess
Zara Philips of
England
Zara was
born on May 15th, 1981 and is the daughter of Princess Anne and
Captain Mark Philips. She is also the oldest granddaughter of
Elizabeth II of England and the Duke of Edinburgh. Zara loves
horses and is an accomplished equestrian. She has won several
championships in Europe and is the current Eventing World Champion,
an eventing competition in the World Equestrian Games WEG. Zara is
currently not married.
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Princesses Around the World
