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King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima touch down in Oslo for State Visit to Norway

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9th November 2021
Following almost two years of restrictions and shutdowns, life is beginning to go back to how it was before, albeit with some remanence of the trauma we collectively lived through. State visits are starting to reappear on heads of states’ calendars, and on 9 November, the Dutch state visit to Norway began.  King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima and the outgoing Dutch Minister of…
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King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima open Dutch pavilion at Expo2020 in Dubai

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5th November 2021
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima have ended their short trip to the United Arab Emirates on a high note. Together with the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Tom de Bruijn, Their Majesties have opened the Dutch pavilion at the Dubai 2020 Expo. The Dutch King and Queen travelled to Dubai to officially inaugurate the pavilion on Wednesday, 3 November, coinciding with…
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Princess Margriet and Prime Minister Trudeau visit Canadian War Cemetery

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1st November 2021
On Friday, 29 October, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Princess Margriet of the Netherlands visited the Bergen op Zoom Canadian War Cemetery.  Princess Margriet was born in Ottawa at the Ottawa Civic Hospital in 1943. Her parents, Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, had left the Netherlands in exile during the Nazi occupation. As a result, the Canadian…
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Princess Catharina-Amalia could marry a woman and be queen, says Dutch Prime Minister

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13th October 2021
After questions were raised following the publication of a book, the Dutch Prime Minister has confirmed that Princess Catharina-Amalia could marry a woman and retain her right to the throne. Same-sex marriage has been legal in the Netherlands since 2001, but the book questioned if this would apply to the crown as there would have to be an heir to the throne. Prime Minister Mark Rutte wrote in…
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