The British royal family is an interesting entity, but they are not the only ones active in this city. There are many royal families in the world, each with their own drama and glamorous, fashion-forward families. We'd like to introduce you to some of our favorite world royal families, whose fashions we follow closely (and whose lives and work we also follow).

Perhaps the most talked-about global royal of the moment is Crown Princess Mary of Denmark. After her mother-in-law, Queen Margrethe, announced her bombshell abdication on New Year's Eve, Crown Princess Mary will become queen on January 14. This makes Mary the first ever Australian-born queen. She met her husband, Crown Prince Frederik, in her home country when they visited for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. They met in a pub called the Slip Inn, where Mary, a successful advertising executive, had no idea that "Fred" was the heir to the Danish throne; they married in 2004 and have four children. She reportedly considers Mary to be the royal blueprint.

Before marrying into the Spanish royal family in 2004, Queen Letizia was an accomplished journalist working for the Spanish edition of the economic channel Bloomberg before moving to CNN+ She reported from Washington D.C. on the 2000 U.S. presidential election and in September 2001, she reported on the 9/11 attacks After 10 years of courtship, she married her first husband in 1998, divorced the following year, and married King Felipe (then Crown Prince Felipe) in 2004; they have two daughters. After the abdication of her father-in-law King Juan Carlos, she became queen in 2014 and has been wowing people ever since.

Fun fact about the heir to the Swedish throne: Crown Princess Victoria is the eldest of the three children of King Carl Gustaf and Queen Sylvia, but after her brother Prince Carl Philip was born in 1979, Sweden's constitution was changed so that the order of succession to the throne is determined by birth order regardless of gender Crown Princess Victoria was behind Prince Carl Philip because her brother was male, until 1979, when the Swedish constitution was amended to make the order of succession to the throne based on birth order regardless of gender. This change took effect on January 1, 1980, and Victoria was again the heir to the throne seven months later as the second in line. When Victoria ascends to the throne, she will be Sweden's fourth heir to the throne and first since 1720. Victoria has spoken publicly about her struggles with dyslexia, anorexia, and prosopagnosia, which makes it difficult to recognize familiar faces. She speaks four languages (Swedish, English, French, and German) and married personal trainer Daniel Westling in 2010.

Victoria's sister, Princess Madeleine, is the child of Carl Gustaf and Sylvia's family of five and was born third in line to the Swedish throne, but is now eighth thanks to her siblings' children. An avid equestrian, Madeleine works to support the royal family, but currently lives in the United States with her family and has done so since 2018. (She married Anglo-American financier Christopher O'Neill in 2013 and has three children.

Carl Gustaf and Sylvia's middle child is the aforementioned Carl Philippe, who married the former Sophia Hellqvist in 2015. Prior to joining the Swedish royal family, Sofia was a glamour model and reality TV star on Paradise Hotel (and even appeared on the show until the end). She is a certified yoga instructor, studied accounting, and is the mother of three children.

Last summer, the Jordanian royal family was the focus of attention for this year's royal wedding, which will be attended by the Prince and Princess of Wales and other royalty from around the world. The mother of the groom, Prince Hussein, is Queen Rania, wife of King Abdullah. Before marrying him, Rania worked for Citibank and Apple; their courtship was swift, and they married in 1993, just five months after meeting at a dinner party. They are the parents of four children.

The title of Princess Charlene is a bit misleading. She is the Princess of Monaco and her husband, Prince Albert, is the Princess of Monaco, meaning that two people are on the throne in Monaco. Albert has already reigned for six years since 2005, when he married Charlene in 2011, and before their marriage and move to Monaco, Charlene was an Olympic swimmer from South Africa. Charlene is the mother of young twins, and her royal activities revolve mainly around sports, AIDS, and underprivileged children. Her late mother-in-law was Grace Kelly, and Charlene's style rivals that of the legendary actress-turned-princess.

Princess Maxima was originally from Argentina and was working in marketing when she met Prince Willem-Alexander in Seville, Spain in 1999. During their first meeting, the prince addressed Maxima only as "Alexander" so that she would not realize that he was a prince. They eventually married in 2002 and became King and Queen when Maxima's mother-in-law, Queen Beatrix, abdicated in 2013. Maxima is the mother of three children, and as an active royal, she has promoted social integration of immigrants, LGBT rights, and economic inclusion.

When she married Prince Haakon, heir to the Norwegian throne in 2001, Crown Princess Mette-Marit was a commoner and a single mother with a disadvantaged past. She has two children with Haakon in addition to a son she had with a previous relationship, but her royal duties were somewhat limited after she was diagnosed with a form of pulmonary fibrosis in 2018.

Queen Mathilde was the first ever Belgian-born queen, and when she married then-Prince Philip in December 1999, it was the last royal wedding of the millennium. The issues close to Queen Mathilde's heart include poverty reduction in Belgium, education, literacy, and improving the status of women in society, among many others.