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Queen Máxima discusses COVID and its impact on mental health

Queen Máxima of the Netherlands spoke to researchers, psychiatrists, general practitioners and the organisation MIND on Tuesday regarding how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted mental health.Elmer Bets/Amsterdam UMCElmer Bets/Amsterdam UMCThe Queen spoke online specifically about how the pandemic has affected the mental health of the Dutch. She heard about the psychological well-being of…
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Queen Máxima opens Money Week with speech on youth financial well-being

Queen Máxima gave a speech to mark Global Money Week’s opening on Monday, recalling her own upbringing as a tool towards financial well-being as an adult.The Queen, who is the honorary chairman of the Money Wise Platform, gave her speech to schoolchildren across the Netherlands following along in school, with the theme of this year’s Money Week ‘Learning How to Handle Money is Worth…
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Royal Wedding Rewind: Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands

It was a wedding fit for a queen in waiting but the bride and groom only made it to the altar after a wave of protest, some of it angry, that threatened to stop their romance in its tracks. When Beatrix of the Netherlands, then heir to her country’s throne, wed Claus van Amsberg in 1966, the recent past proved more than problematic. The couple overcame those troubles and enjoyed a successful…
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The teenagers who will one day assume the throne

There are five teenagers in Europe who will one day assume the throne in their countries. Let’s take a look at the future monarchs.Princess Elisabeth of Belgium:Also known as the Duchess of Brabant (the title of the heir to the Belgian throne), Elisabeth will come of age on 25 October. Elisabeth, as the eldest of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde’s four children, is first in…
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