Buckingham Palace has released further
details about the upcoming State Visit of King Willem-Alexander and
Queen Maxima of the Netherlands when they visit the United Kingdom
next month. It has been confirmed that Their Majesties will pay a
State Visit as the guests of Queen Elizabeth II from 23rd October
to 24th October 2018. The King & Queen will stay at Buckingham
Palace for the duration of…
On Tuesday, 2 October, King
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands visited the Royal
Netherlands Marechaussee in the Willem Lodewijk of
Nassaukazerne in Zoutkamp. His Majesty’s visit was aimed at
watching a military exercise promoted by the Royal
Netherlands…
United States First Daughter, Ivanka
Trump, spoke about QueenMáxima of the Netherlands on Tuesday
evening regarding how much she has learned from the
Argentinian-born Queen of the Netherlands. Trump and Her Majesty
met for the third time in New York’sFour…
As the United Nations plans to hold its
annual General Assembly in New York, royals from several royal
families from across the globe will be in attendance for the 73rd
session. The royal families of Belgium, Denmark, Jordan, the
Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Tonga will be represented in New
York City this year. Queen Mathilde of the Belgians arrived in New
York this weekend and attended an…
Queen Máxima: "There are no words" after four children are killed in a train accident
20th September 2018
Queen Máxima had just arrived in
Friesland in the north of the Netherlands today for a happy
occasion when news reached the Queen that a terrible accident had
taken place in Oss, in the south of the Netherlands. Four children
were killed, and one child and one adult were…
On Thursday, several royals and head of
states attended the state funeral for Kofi Annan in Accra, Ghana.
Kofi Annan was the Secretary-General of the United Nations, holding
the position from January 1997 to December 2006. Kofi Annan and
the UN received the Nobel Peace…
Yesterday, Queen Máxima of the
Netherlands visited one of the winners of Appeltje van
Oranje 2018 at the YETS Foundation in
Schiedam. The YETS Foundation is one of this year’s winners
of the Appeltje van Oranje 2018. The organisation provides
vulnerable young people, through sport and guidance with homework
and eating habits, a good start in society. They were given the
award in…
Princess Beatrix and Princess Mabel to attend funeral of Kofi Annan
7th September 2018
Princess Beatrix, the former Queen of the
Netherlands, and her daughter-in-law, Princess Mabel of Orange are
to attend the funeral of former Secretary-General of the United
Nations, Kofi Annan, who died on 18 August. Now it has been
announced that the former Queen of the…
On Saturday, 27 April 2019 the city of
Amersfoort will host Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands for the annual celebration of
Koningsdag, or ‘King’s Day’, which marks the birthday of His
Majesty. King’s Day is a national holiday…
This last week, Princess Beatrix opened
an exhibition of sculptures at House Doorn near Utrecht. The
exhibition is entitled “Resistance and Sadness in the picture” and
features work from Germany and the Netherlands – the former
representing links with World War I and the latter with World War
II. During WWI, Holland was actually a neutral country and at the
end of the war Kaiser Wilhelm II…
