The tenth anniversary of the Queen’s Day
attack in Apeldoorn will be remembered privately by family members
of the victims. It is currently not known if any members of the
Dutch Royal Family will attend. They did attend the first
anniversary of the attacks, and family members of the victims have
continued to meet each year privately. Ten years ago – on 30 April
2009 – Karst Tates drove his…
It’s been another quiet week for our two
favourite duchesses, but we have plenty of other royal fashion to
discuss. Princess Eugenie travelled to Vienna and made a statement
about modern slavery, whilst Queen Máxima wowed at a gala dinner in
Amsterdam, and Crown Princess…
When Baby Sussex is born in a few weeks
time, he or she will be seventh in line to the British throne. They
are not the only royals to hold the lucky number seven position in
a line of succession. Let’s take a look at Baby Sussex’s
counterparts in their lines of…
Her Royal Highness Princess Ariane of the
Netherlands will attend the Christelijk Gymnasium Sorghvliet in The
Hague after the summer holidays, according to the Government
Information Services (RVD). She currently attends the Openbare
Bloemcampschool in Wassenaar, near The Hague. Her elder sisters The
Princess of Orange and Princess Alexia also attend the same school.
Christelijk Gymnasium…
Princess Beatrix officially opened a new
exhibition at the Paleis Het Loo on Tuesday, The Garden of Earthly
Worries. Designed by Daniel Libeskind, a Polish-American artist,
architect and designer, the exhibition consists of four sculptures.
“Conceived as a sculptural and…
Queen Máxima visited the Netherlands
Fotomuseum in Rotterdam on Tuesday to view several exhibitions and
learn more about the facilities. One of the exhibitions she saw,
during the tour given by Fotomuseum director Birgit Donker, was
Shadows by Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar…
Prince Pieter-Christiaan is the third son
of Princess Margriet (younger sister of Princess Beatrix) and
Pieter van Vollenhoven, and hence, the first cousin of the current
monarch, King Willem-Alexander. His Highness Prince
Pieter-Christiaan Michiel of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven was
born on 22nd March 1972 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Pieter-Christiaan has two older brothers, Princes…
Today marks 15 years since the former
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, the grandmother of the
Netherlands’ current monarch, King Willem-Alexander, died after
suffering years of ill health at the hands of dementia. By the
mid-1990s, Princess Juliana, who had reverted to…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima
have released a statement following the terror attack in Utrecht on
Monday morning which has claimed the lives of three people. The
King and Queen said: “It is a great sadness to us that three people
were killed and others were…
King Willem-Alexander attends aviation centenary celebrations and strikes new commemorative gold coin
15th March 2019
On the occasion of the centenary
celebrations of Dutch aviation, KLM – National airline of the
Netherlands, NLR – Dutch Aerospace Center – and GKN Fokker
Technologies, the successors of the civil aviation manufacturers
founded originally in 1919 hosted an event on Thursday, 14th March
to mark this important anniversary. The event was hosted at the EYE
Museum in Amsterdam and as a special…
