Castles, Palaces, Royal Houses

[chanel]

Guillaume and Sybilla at their engagment announcement:

[Duke]

Luxembourg look like a nice places with many good scenary!!
Anymore photos about it!! By the way, is Luxembourg famous for anything, like chocolate?? And do the luxembourg royals led a very luxurious and spoil life, are they very rich or are they very down-to-earth?

[kelly9480]

It's very important to the EU and is known for banking, but I don't know of any commercial things, like the Swiss have chocolate and watches, and the French have fashion.

you can find plenty of photos at www.corbis.com -- just search for Luxembourg.

Luxembourg seems to be one of the more casual courts in Europe. Henri, MT, Jean and JC live in palaces -- Guillaume (Henri's brother, not his son), apparently moved back to Luxembourg after his car crash, but I don't think he lives in one of the family's official residences.

[chanel]

HRH Prince Guillaume and Princess Sybilla live with the Grand Dukes and thier children at Comer-Berg.

As far as I know!

[Duke]

I read somewhere that Luxembourg is a very small country? Anyone know how small is it? And if is an banking hub and is important to EU, then can we assume that Luxembourg is like anyother big city such as london and is a rich Country!!!

[kelly9480]

http://www.gouvernement.lu/tout_savoir/sta...tatistique.html -- this is in French

http://www.statec.lu/html_en/statistiques/...fres/index.html -- this is in English

[gaggleofcrazypeople]

This is a totally random quetion, but are there any ghousts in any of these palaces? I mean, they are so old!

[Iain]

Originally posted by Duke@Jan 12th, 2004 - 3:55 am
I read somewhere that Luxembourg is a very small country? Anyone know how small is it? And if is an banking hub and is important to EU, then can we assume that Luxembourg is like anyother big city such as london and is a rich Country!!!

Luxembourg covers 1,000 sq miles. There are many smaller countries in the world.

[carlota]

in fact, there are many small countries, and most of them are really important and rich... some of them? monaco, luxembourg or the vaticano.. :)

[gaggleofcrazypeople]

Yea; you don't hve to be big to be powerful.

[Iain]

Yes and you don't have to be powerful to be great. A country can have a huge army, navy or airforce and possess powerful weapons and bombs, but that doesn't make it great. It's a country's people and their contribution to the good of mankind that make it great.

[Dennism]

Very well said.

[Josefine]

When HGD Guillaume gets married is there a castle where he and his wife can live or would there be in a house that the family already owns

[suturegeisha]

Originally Posted by Josefine

When HGD Guillaume gets married is there a castle where he and his wife can live or would there be in a house that the family already owns

I would imagine that they would live in the Fischbach castle, for the simple reason that when Henri and MT married, that's where they moved into.

[gaggleofcrazypeople]

I believe that too, only if GD Jean would move out.

[grim_lady]

Originally Posted by gaggleofcrazypeople

This is a totally random quetion, but are there any ghousts in any of these palaces? I mean, they are so old!

That is an interesting question. I would love to find out more about the topic of ghosts at the homes myself but I don't think that it would be easy to find out the anwer to that question. You'd might have to ask someone who works at one of the homes or if you ever were lucky enough ask the royal family.

[Josefine]

Originally Posted by suturegeisha

I would imagine that they would live in the Fischbach castle, for the simple reason that when Henri and MT married, that's where they moved into.

thank you

do they have a summer house soemwhere

[msfroyste]

Originally Posted by Josefine

thank you

do they have a summer house soemwhere

yes, in the south of france on the cote d'azure, in a town? called cabasson(sp?). they took pictures there in the summer of 03.

[Tina]

Originally Posted by Duke

Luxembourg look like a nice places with many good scenary!!
Anymore photos about it!! By the way, is Luxembourg famous for anything, like chocolate?? And do the luxembourg royals led a very luxurious and spoil life, are they very rich or are they very down-to-earth?

take a look at wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg

[josephine11101927]

Guillaume and Sibilla live in contern!