I recently heard a report on NPR about how Queen Rania of Jordan was using YouTube in an effort to spread her message regarding stereotypes about the middle east. They played a clip from her Letterman Top 10 spoof, and I was impressed with how she was using the internet and social media to connect with people all over the world.
I wondered what her web site looked like and wondered if other monarchies and royal families were keeping up with the times as well as Queen Rania.
Queen Rania’s site features a lovely color scheme, but a rather surprising lack of attention to detail. There are problems with the layout, aspect ratios of photos and typos here and there.
The British royal family has it’s own YouTube channel as well, and a very extensive, thorough web site.
I love the clarity of the Danish and Norwegian Royal sites. The use of gray really puts the focus on the beautiful photographs.
The Dutch Monarchy’s site is beautiful, with a very nice color scheme dominated by royal blue.
The site of the Swedish Royal Court is very nice, but could use a little help in the main body of the site.
The Belgian site is not great, but functional.
Will somebody please tell the King of Spain that you’re supposed to smile for pictures? (Particularly the one you want to put on the home page of your web site.)
And finally, the Japanese Imperial Household site. It is in serious need of an update and more pictures would be nice.
Nice investigatory work, Randa.
You would think that the royal families could afford a bigger budget for their web sites. So is it the lack of care for their web presence, or did they fail in hiring professional designers to do the job?
The Danish Monarchy site is the best one of the bunch here, Dutch and Norway have nice colours, but poor typography.
And agree, what’s with the photos? *cheese*
she seems like like a pretty hip Queen- maybe we should go back to a monarchy???
I think what the queen is doing is great. I am an American from Ky. I had always believed the stereo type that has been portrayed on people from overseas until a few months ago when I had the opportunity to work with a developer from Pakistan.
We struck up a friendship I think mainly because we were both curious about each other, our countries, religion, and general ways of life. I must say they are nothing like they are portrayed to us. As far as the websites go I think that her site is fine.
I always thought that the blue color is one of the best colors, especially for the royal families websites! I loved these great royal sites, Randa. A credit for you here for showing us the fascinate royal families websites!
Hi Randa,
I like to introduce my country royal family website which is http://www.malaysianmonarchy.org.my/.
@Malayu – thank you for pointing to the Malaysian Monarchy site. Very interesting!
After reading the complete post the first question that comes in my mind is that how you got so much information about these web sites. Some of them are really looking Royal.
As far as the smile of the king of Spain is concern, some people are actually scared of camera and the king might be one of them.
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Very interesting to compare the styles of the different monarchies. Coming from the UK I’m used to the stuffy approach of our Royals so Queen Rania’s attempts to reach out are a breath of fresh air. The fact that she is also rather beautiful doesn’t harm her cause either!
I would absolutely love to tell that King of Spain that you’re supposed to smile for pictures! Lol – I’m sure he knows though since I tell most men in my family and they continue to frown (I think it’s a macho thing)
did u hear story about there will be only 4 king left in the world? i think the story will become true soon or later.
Some very impressive design work there amongst the monarchy sites. It will be interesting to check a few out and see how they are written and whether they use a CMS or not. Of course, I would imagine that cost was not an issue at this top end of the market..
my favorite is royal Danish
i feel this very elegance
thanks for this good post
I’m amazed at some of the pictures. You’d think they’d at least smile. I guess it doesn’t matter what the people think of them because the people don’t get to vote. That’s a great thing about the United States. The PEOPLE get a say.
Personally,i like the Danish and Norwegian Royal site.I found there are a lot of beautiful photograph.
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