To close her work week, Queen Máxima of
the Netherlands made the two and a half hour trip from The Hague to
Assen to open the exhibition ‘Viva la Frida!-Art and work of Frida
Kahlo,’ which will be open to the public at the Drents Museum from
8 October 2021 to 27 March 2022. Before receiving a tour of
the exhibition on its opening day, on Friday, 8 October, Queen
Máxima sat down for an…
New book on Princess Catharina-Amalia to be published on the occasion of her 18th birthday
27th September 2021
On the occasion of Princess
Catharina-Amalia’s 18th birthday, a new book will be published to
introduce the future Queen to a broader audience. Author, comedian
and singer Claudia de Breij has written the book, simply called
“Amalia”, in cooperation…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima enjoy night of classical music
26th September 2021
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima
enjoyed a night of classical music, celebrating the 100th
anniversary of the Netherlands Bach Society. On the evening of the
25th of September 2021, Their Majesties travelled to Utrecht, where
they listened to the Bach Society…
Queen Máxima travels to New York for UN General Assembly
24th September 2021
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands travelled
to New York City from the 21st to the 23rd of September 2021 to
take part in the 76th United Nations General Assembly. Her
Majesty presented the annual report to United Nations
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the 23rd – the report having
been written in her capacity as a United Nations’ Secretary
General’s Special Advocate for…
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
is to make his first State Visit to Norway. The royal courts in
Oslo and Amsterdam announced that the King, along with Queen
Maxima, will travel to Norway between November 9th and November
11th 2021. It will be the first Dutch State…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima
are Norway-bound. The royal couple will undertake a State Visit at
the invitation of King Harald in November. The Dutch Royal House
announced that King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima would visit
Oslo and Trondheim during their…
King Willem-Alexander has held his annual
Speech from the Throne in The Hague. The King of the Netherlands
gave the Speech from the Throne during the Assembly of the States
General with Queen Máxima at his side at the Grote Kerk. Activities
surrounding the day were scaled-down just like last year due to the
global health situation. There was no carriage ride, and the royals
did not appear on…
King Willem-Alexander among authorities unveiling new monument for Holocaust victims
20th September 2021
In a poignant ceremony on the evening of
19 September, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands inaugurated
a new monument to the memory of Dutch people killed during World
War II. The monument, called Monument of Names, was
commissioned by architect Daniel Libeskind…
During a visit to Snellius supercomputer,
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands appeared with her right hand in a
splint. Following inquiries from Dutch newspaper NOS, the
Government Information Service (or, in Dutch, abbreviated in RVD)
confirmed that the Queen had suffered…
Netherlands' Prince's Day celebration to forego balcony appearance
13th September 2021
The Dutch Royal House has announced that
this year’s traditional balcony appearance on Prince’s Day will not
take place. This is due to current health safety restrictive
measures to prevent crowds of well-wishers from gathering and
potentially spreading the COVID-19 virus. Therefore, Prince’s
Day, on 21 September this year, will be slightly different than
usual. The…
