About Us

About Us
Our History
Cover Photo
Contact Us
Disclaimers
Privacy


About Us

Welcome to Unofficial Royalty! We are a community that enjoys learning about royalty past and present. Deven is the owner of the website and as chief administrator, he is responsible for the technical side of the website. Scott and Susan deal with the day-to-day administration of the website which includes overseeing the royal news area and researching, writing, and publishing articles for the various content areas.

One of our most popular features is the royal news. Royal News Recaps are published Mondays to Fridays and on Sundays except for Thanksgiving Day in the United States, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. The Royal News Recap for Sundays will be a weekend recap. If there is any breaking or major news, we will publish a breaking news article and/or a recap as necessary.

We invite you to keep up with what is happening here by bookmarking Unofficial Royalty and joining us on Facebook and Twitter.


Our History

What began as a simple news site in 1995 by Geraldine Voost, quickly evolved into the site we have today. Geraldine began posting royal news articles and was soon inundated with questions about the British royals.  A FAQ section was added, as well as a Yahoo group.  In 1997, she decided to consolidate everything into one site, establishing Unofficial Royalty, and adding content areas for a number of royal families as well as an integrated forum.

By 2009, we had a team of volunteers helping with the daily news updates, contributing content for the various royal families, moderating the forums, and writing featured columns for the site.  We decided to move the site to a new domain – www.unofficialtoyalty.com – with a new content management system to make it easier to maintain.

In 2010, Geraldine handed over the day-to-day administration of Unofficial Royalty to Scott and Susan in order to focus on her passion for competitive ballroom dancing.

As of January 1, 2012, the site was sold, with Deven, a long-time contributor to the site, taking the reins. Scott and Susan continue as site administrators. In the tradition of Unofficial Royalty’s founder Geraldine Voost, Unofficial Royalty remains a website administrated by a team of volunteers.

In August 2020, Unofficial Royalty was ranked #2 on Feedspot’s Top 10 Royal Family Blogs and Websites to Follow in 2020.


Cover Photo

The cover photo at the top of the page was taken by Susan on one of her trips to England showing Buckingham Palace in London, England.


Contact Us

Before you contact us, please read the bulleted items below. Do not send us any email that deals with any bulleted items. You are wasting your time because we are not interested.

Please be advised that:

  • Unofficial Royalty is not a business. It is a website based in the United States and administrated by a team of volunteers.
  • Unofficial Royalty is not interested in any project or collaboration that involves the exchange of money.
  • Unofficial Royalty does not use sponsored posts or sponsored link insertions.
  • Unofficial Royalty does not deal with marketing agencies.
  • Unofficial Royalty does accept any type of advertising.
  • Unofficial Royalty does not purchase any services or products.
  • Unofficial Royalty does not do any type of private research or private genealogy research.

PLEASE DO NOT SEND US ANY EMAILS DEALING WITH THE ABOVE MATTERS.

We cannot put anyone in direct contact with any royal family members. However, we do have this resource at Unofficial Royalty: Current Monarchies: Official Websites, Social Media, and Mail Addresses.

Before you contact us, please read the bulleted items above. Do not send us any email that deals with any bulleted items. We are not interested.

Have questions or comments about UnofficialRoyalty.com? Please email us at one or both of the addresses below and we’ll get back to you as quickly as we can.

scott@unofficialroyalty.com
susan@unofficialroyalty.com


Disclaimers

PHOTOS: While many of the photos used on Unofficial Royalty come from the public domain and our personal collections, we do also use photos found elsewhere on the internet. The use of these photos is not intended to imply ownership or copyright of the images, and we try to include the source whenever possible. If you are the owner of any photo used, please contact us and we will gladly remove the image.


Privacy

Our privacy statement can be found on the ‘Privacy’ tab of the main menu.