Royals on social media

There were birthdays, no royal babies and lots of trips overseas this week for Europe's royals and much of it was shared on their official social media channels. Which means it's time for Royals on social media...

Birthday wishes

The Queen of Denmark turned 75 in the week and royals from across Europe headed to Copenhagen to share her celebrations. The Swedish Royal Family shared images on its official Facebook page after King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia attended the pre birthday banquet and Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel joined them for festivities on the day itself.

The Norwegian Royal Family were also there and shared a photo of Queen Margrethe and King Harald on its Facebook page.

The Danish queen shares her big day with two other royals and the Belgian Royal Family shared a photo of the youngest of these, Princess Eleonore, on April 16th on its Facebook page when she celebrated her seventh birthday.

Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg marked his sixtieth birthday on the same day and the official Twitter account shared some official photos of him with the Grand Duchess, Maria Teresa.

Joyeux anniversaire, Monseigneur! - S.A.R. le Grand-Duc fête Son 60e anniversaire aujourd'hui 16 avril 2015. pic.twitter.com/8qjwuwPTfs
— Cour Grand-Ducale (@CourGrandDucale) April 16, 2015

Heading overseas

There were great expectations during the week of another royal birthday as the Duchess of Cambridge approached her due date for baby number two. There was still no prince or princess to tweet about so the Kensington Palace Twitter account shared some videos from the tour they made this time last year of New Zealand.

Find out more about what The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge got up to during last #RoyalVisitNZ in our @Storify http://t.co/ak8F4k96Iw
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) April 13, 2015

The same Twitter account also shared news of Prince Harry's upcoming tour of the same country. And at the end of the week, they tweeted details of his first two weeks in Australia where he is spending a month with the country's army.  

Prince Harry also spent time with the Wuggubun community in Kununurra, Western #Australia while on duty with NORFORCE pic.twitter.com/cj1jcVWmqO
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) April 18, 2015

The King of Spain headed to Brussels to tour the institutions of the European Union. He met Spanish MEPs, parliamentary groups and leading members including the President of the EU Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker. And photos of the tour were shared on the Royal Household's official Twitter feed.

El Presidente de @EU_Commission @JunckerEU recibe al Rey en Edificio Berlaymont http://t.co/5O2oArZDsp pic.twitter.com/86guOOi8ht
— Casa de S.M. el Rey (@CasaReal) April 15, 2015

Out and about

The King and Queen of the Netherlands, accompanied by Princess Beatrix, attended a concert for King's Day in the week and an image of Willem-Alexander and Maxima arriving was tweeted by the official account.

Koning, Koningin & Prinses Beatrix @Energiehuis voor jaarlijks #Koningsdagconcert. Uitzending 27/4, 20.25 uur @NPO2 pic.twitter.com/WU5rmYlwu4
— Koninklijk Huis (@koninklijkhuis) April 14, 2015

Queen Sonja of Norway was in New York in the week to open an exhibition linked to an art competition which bears her name. The Norwegian Royal Household shared images of the event on its official Facebook page.

And Princess Leonore of Sweden showed that she is growing up fast in a new image shared on the Swedish Royal Family's Facebook page as the littlest member enjoyed the first flowers of spring.