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Today, April 29, 2022, Unofficial Royalty reached the milestone of 30,000,000 views since Unofficial Royalty moved to WordPress on January 1, 2012. We want to thank all the visitors to the website and all Unofficial Royalty’s contributors, past and present, for making Unofficial Royalty successful.

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 Susan and Scott, 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. Susan and Scott continue as site administrators.