Princess Beatrix officially opened a new exhibition at the Paleis Het Loo on Tuesday, The Garden of Earthly Worries.
Designed by Daniel Libeskind, a Polish-American artist, architect and designer, the exhibition consists of four sculptures.
“Conceived as a sculptural and conceptual counterpoint to the ordered beauty of the palace garden,” per the Paleis Het Loo website, “the gardens of the…
Today, Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands turns 81-years-old. So we are going to have a little look at who she is and what has happened in her life so far.
Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard was born in 1938 in Soestdijk Palace in Baarn, the Netherlands as the eldest child of…
Former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok has died at the age of 80. He had been ill with a heart condition for quite some time.
Wim Kok was Prime Minister from 1994 until 2002 under then Queen Beatrix. Before becoming Prime Minister, Wim Kok was a trade union leader, leader of…
On Thursday, several royals and head of states attended the state funeral for Kofi Annan in Accra, Ghana.
Kofi Annan was the Secretary-General of the United Nations, holding the position from January 1997 to December 2006. Kofi Annan and the UN received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 “for their work for a better organised and more peaceful world”. He died on 18th August in Switzerland…
Princess Beatrix and Princess Mabel to attend funeral of Kofi Annan
7th September 2018
Princess Beatrix, the former Queen of the Netherlands, and her daughter-in-law, Princess Mabel of Orange are to attend the funeral of former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, who died on 18 August.
Now it has been announced that the former Queen of the…
This last week, Princess Beatrix opened an exhibition of sculptures at House Doorn near Utrecht. The exhibition is entitled “Resistance and Sadness in the picture” and features work from Germany and the Netherlands – the former representing links with World War I and…
Several new photographs were revealed yesterday by the Royal House of the Netherlands ahead of Princess Beatrix’s 80th birthday today. They were taken by Jeroen van der Meyde who has snapped many images of the Dutch Royal Family in the past.
The seven pictures were taken in the autumn of 2017 at Drakensteyn Castle in Lage Vuursche with one image featuring the former Queen of the…
How Princesses Beatrix and Margriet will celebrate their upcoming birthdays
14th January 2018
The Royal House of the Netherlands recently announced how Princess Beatrix and Princess Margriet would celebrate their upcoming birthdays.
The former Queen of the Netherlands, Princess Beatrix, will celebrate her 80th birthday on 31 January privately in the presence of…
The Dutch Royal Family was out in full force, just like previous years, to do volunteer work for NLdoet. King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima were in Breda in the communal gardens, where the King helped build a greenhouse while the Queen was painting. The communal gardens…
Shock still runs deep in Lech five years after Prince Friso's accident
17th February 2017
The shock after Prince Friso was buried under an avalanche still “runs very deep”, says Mayor Ludwig Muxel of the Austrian town Lech. The local newspaper Vorarlberger Nachrichten dedicated much of their edition to the five-year anniversary of Prince Friso’s accident. Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau was the brother of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.
Mayor Muxel told the…
