Charles IX of Sweden's Coronation ring. 1607

During an appearance on the Double Date podcast, Kelly Ripa shared a story about Mark Conseulos tossing her wedding ring out a window during the first year of their marriage.

Early in the life of this blog, I did a mass roundup of royal engagement rings . For a long time it was one of my most popular posts, and pr...

This week, we return to our series on royal engagement rings and it's time to head to the Benelux countries: Belgium, the Netherlands, and L...

Soon to be Queen Maxima, eventual Queen Regnant Victoria, and a diminished bogan! FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDD! Poor Derfie. At least he's all the way over in Hong Kong sailing with Papa and far from the spectacle of Madam walking around their psychodelic palace with a knife and a killer look in her eyes, slinging spit every time she moves her head. Daisy's days are numbered if Madam gets her way. It was announced yesterday that Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands will abdicate the throne in favour of her son Willem-Alexander on 30 April of this year. This will make Maxima the Queen and their oldest daughter Catharina-Amalia the Princess of Orange and direct heir to the throne. That tall, happy, healthy weight, fun, sponteneous, financially astute, affectionate woman who wears her clothes not the other way around and is loved by her new countrymen and women without a palace PR campaign will now be a Majesty to which little Mary Donaldson, so high on her Royal Highness status, will have to curtsey. A lucky skank in her dinky tiara with hot glue gun pearls against a tall drink of water sparkling in her treasure trove of Orange jools. The article below won't make Yrma very happy about her immediate future. "NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!" Article: BT Daisy's Not Leaving Until She Croaks The royal crown is very far into the future for Crown Prince Frederik. But that fits the Crown Prince - and Queen Margrethe is fine with him not having a view to the throne after tomorrow, says the country's leading royal historian. "It's an almost unbreakable tradition that the Danish monarchs stay til they reach death's door. This is how it's been for the last 500 years, and so surely it will be so with Queen Margrethe", says historian and royal expert Sørensen to BT. "It is something completely different with the Dutch Queen Beatrix, who has just proclaimed that she wil abdicate in favour of her son Willem Alexander. "In the Netherlands it is a tradition that the monarch abdicates when they get older. Typically a while after they hit 70. This is how it was with Beatrix's mother and also her grandmother." According Hovbakke, the Dutch royal family is almost the only one in Europe where it has been tradition that the monarch goes by before time and makes room for heir to the throne. Beatrix announced Monday night that her son Willem Alexander become Holland's king when she abdicates in about three months, on 30 April. And kings and queens are getting older, because they live longer today. "It is one of the most deeply entrenched traditions of the Danish royal family to be seated until you die. There must be something special, if it should change. For example, the queen becomes so ill that she can not do her job." "Queen Margrethe is 72, and one can easily imagine that she will go on for another 20 years from now. And she has said several times that there should be no doubt that she will remain until she dies. As is the tradition." How do you think it fits Crown Prince Frederik that he has no prospect of becoming king so far? "It's hard to say, but I actually think that the role of the Crown Prince fits the succession excellently. It is a long process to find his roles, to define himself and find out how to do it. It also took some time for Margrethe, to find out how she was going to fulfill her role as queen." "When Frederick was 18-20 years he had some concerns about looking forward to being king, but especially after he became a father, it seems as if he is really good as heir to the throne. And it's not my opinion that he is in a hurry to become king", says Sørensen. "Check yourself before you wreck yourself, bogan." "You might want to think very seriously about slipping some arsenic in your mother's tea. I WANT MAJOR BLING. Why should that crazy Argentinian get it all?" "Oh, that one? Your wife thinggie? You need to check that abdication business at the door because I'm not curtseying to that arrogant woman." "Ready to stay in Denmark all the damn time? Because I am ready to be Queen NOW." "Can I get a silencer? Daisy's hard of hearing, but I still don't want to ruin the surprise." "When we all walked into the room, we saw that she had Fred on his knees, begging for the treat she balanced on the end of his nose!" "Make this princess sh*t go away NOW. I'm reaching for the top." "You know she wants you six feet under, right?" "I am not f*cking around, Fred. Do I need to drag up some old friends from the Sydney docks to do the job?" "Hope you can make it to the coronation ceremony, Mary!" Photos: Various, many thanks to the Order of Royal Splendor blog

If you made the world's gold into a cube, how long would the edges be? Surprisingly, it would probably be no more than 50m, and possibly a lot less.

He's a prince AND a budding jewelry designer.

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This week, we return to our series on royal engagement rings and it's time to head to the Benelux countries: Belgium, the Netherlands, and L...

I don't know how I missed the original announcement of the auction of the diamond-and-sapphire engagement ring Napoleon gave to Josephine, but I'm quite disappointed. I would have loved to own this piece of history! It was sold by the

The Hope, the Star of the East and the McLean Diamond

Thanks to all those distractingly fetching gowns at last night's Oscars--and/or the fact that you were busy following Angelina's right leg on Twitter--I suspect some of you may have missed a few interesting beauty moments during the red-carpet procession. But never fear, we're here to fill in the gaps.