Daily Archives: December 10, 2014

Monaco Princely Family

HSH Princess Charlene of Monaco Gives Birth to Healthy Baby Twins! (VIDEOS)

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MonacoLAOn Wednesday, December 10, 2014, Her Serene Highness Princess Charlene of Monaco gave birth to healthy baby twins at the Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace in Monaco.

The little prince, born at 5:06 p.m., was named His Serene Highness Hereditary Prince Jacques Honoré Rainier, Marquis des Baux.  The little princess, born at 5:04 p.m., was named Her Serene Highness Princess Gabriella Thérèse Marie, Comtesse de Carladès.

Princess Charlene and her beautiful new little ones are doing well and, of course, His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco is incredibly happy.

A huge congrats to Their Serene Highnesses and to the people of Monaco!

Click here to watch a video announcing the birth of the princely twins via Monaco Info en Direct.

Sirens, church bells, and cannons celebrating the birth of the princely twins.

The Palais Princier de Monaco this evening.

Swedish Royals

Members of the Swedish Royal Family Attend the 2014 Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm.

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On Wednesday, December 10, 2014, Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel of Sweden, Her Royal Highness Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Mr. Christopher O’Neill, and His Royal Highness Prince Carl Philip of Sweden and his fiancée, Ms. Sofia Hellqvist, attended the 2014 Nobel Prize ceremony held at the Konserthuset in Stockholm.

The 2014 Nobel Prize Laureates are:

“The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mr. Patrick Modiano ‘…for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.’

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was divided, one half awarded to Mr. John O’Keefe, the other half jointly to Ms. May-Britt Moser and Mr. Edvard I. Moser ‘…for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.’

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Mr. Eric Betzig, Mr. Stefan W. Hell and Mr. William E. Moerner ‘…for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.’

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Mr. Isamu Akasaki, Mr. Hiroshi Amano and Mr. Shuji Nakamura ‘…for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.’”

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Photo courtesy of Getty Images/J. Nackstrand