Two of Europe’s future queens will
experience their first tiara moments next week when Princess
Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange, attends the delayed 18th
birthday gala celebrations for Norway’s Princess Ingrid Alexandra.
The Dutch Royal House confirmed that Princess Amalia will join her
parents, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima, at a gala dinner
on June 17 at the Royal Palace of…
The Princess of Orange has revealed where
she will attend university. Princess Amalia, 18, will attend the
University of Amsterdam to study for her bachelor’s degree in
Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics (PPLE). She went through
the application and…
The Dutch Royal Household has announced
that King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will undertake a State
Visit to Austria at the end of next month. The visit’s
programme has been already released, and the first day, Monday, 27
June, will see all of the traditional…
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…
