Queen Máxima stepped out for the award ceremony of the King Willem I business prizes, one of the most prestigious acknowledgements in the Netherlands.
The ceremony took place in the evening of Monday, 23rd May, at Groningen’s Forum, in the presence of Her Majesty, the CEO of De Nederlandsche Bank and chairman of the Koning Willem I Foundation, Klaas Knot, as well as representatives for…
Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands, 18, will attend the opening of the Dutch parliament for the first time this year.
Princess Amalia, as she is commonly known, will attend Prinsjesdag (Prince’s Day) for the first time on 20 September.
Prinsjesdag…
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands is in mourning after the son of his best friend died.
Jan de Beaufort, 19, died on 9 May. He was the son of the King’s best friend, Frans de Beaufort.
Jan de Beaufort was a student at the University of Utrecht, where he…
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands has made her way back to the land where she was born for a visit that was supposed to happen in 2020, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of Canada’s independence.
Her Royal Highness and her husband, Prof Pieter van Vollenhoven, landed in Ottawa on the morning of Thursday, 12 May, and began their visit at the house where the Dutch royals resided…
On Sunday, 9 September 2012, the then Princess Máxima of the Netherlands swam the two-kilometre Amsterdam City Swim to raise money for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) through the canals of the city. She finished the course in just under an hour.
Dressed in a…
Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands has given a speech to celebrate Europe Unity Day, which falls every year on 9 May.
Speaking from De Balie, an old tribunal that currently functions as an event space and a café-restaurant, the Dutch Princess talked about Europe…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima thoroughly enjoyed the Liberation concert, which was back after two years due to the global health crisis.
Their Majesties arrived in the area of the Royal Theatre Carré, in Amsterdam, on the evening of Thursday, 5 May.
The Liberation Day concert is traditionally held on and around the Amstel river, in the portion in front of the theatre in the…
When Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne, she had the support of the man she called her “strength and stay” in Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. In this series, Royal Central takes a look at the other consorts of Europe in 1952.
Prince Bernhard of the…
Queen Margrethe of Denmark and Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands will undertake a series of joint engagements in later this month to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the presence of Dutch farmers in Denmark.
The occasion will involve a number of activities around…
A new exhibition has opened about Queen Juliana of the Netherlands that showcases some of the most important moments in her reign through a unique lens.
Her Majesty was a collector of dolls, and, over the course of her life, she received more than six hundred of them, including some from high ranking people like King Harald of Norway and US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Now 65 of…
