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Queen Maxima gives speech about financial equality for International Women's Day

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9th March 2021
Queen Máxima has given a speech about financial equality between men and women to mark International Women’s Day. The online event, A Call to Action for Reaching Financial Equality, was hosted by the Better Than Cash Alliance, UNCDF, World Bank Group and Women’s World Banking, the Dutch Royal House outlined. Queen Máxima gave her speech in her capacity as the UN…
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British RoyalsPrince & Princess of Wales

The Duchess of Cambridge speaks with record-breaking rower

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9th March 2021
The Duchess of Cambridge sat down with a record-setting rowing champion to discuss her successes on International Women’s Day on Monday. Kate spoke with the 21-year-old Jasmine Harrison, who completed the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge—which sees people sail from La Gomera in the Canary Islands to Antigua—in 70 days, three hours and 48 minutes. Jasmine told Kate that she did it in…
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British RoyalsThe Sussexes

It's a girl! The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expecting a daughter

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8th March 2021
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have revealed that they are expecting a baby girl this summer. In their candid interview with Oprah on Sunday evening, Harry and Meghan revealed that their second child will be a girl. At the beginning of the programme, Meghan told Oprah that with this pregnancy, she and Harry had opted to find out the baby’s sex; Archie’s sex was unknown at the…
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Queen Máxima receives the first copy of a book about menopause

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5th March 2021
Queen Máxima received the first published copy of Transition from Head to Toe, a new book about menopause during a virtual visit to the Gelderse Vallei Hospital on Thursday. The book was written by Mirjam van’t Veld and Marcelle Meesters, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gelderse Vallei Hospital and a writer, respectively, after they noticed that many women did not know the…
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