Queen Máxima has returned to her home
country of Argentina for the first time in her role as the United
Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance.
Her Majesty was in the Argentinian capital city of Buenos Aires for
her two-day trip. The Dutch Royal House said in a press release,
“She will speak about the government’s plans to develop a national
strategy…
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands opened an
exhibition on a colourful predecessor of hers this morning at the
Loo Palace in Apeldoorn. The exhibition about Anna Pavlovna of
Russia, wife of King William II of the Netherlands will open its
doors to the public tomorrow but was…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima opened the "Mapping Australia: Country to Cartography" exhibition
5th October 2016
Last Monday King Willem-Alexander
and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands opened the exhibition “Mapping
Australia: Country to Cartography” in the Aboriginal Art
Museum (AAMU) in Utrecht. The Royal Couple visited the exhibition
in preparation for the state visit…
Princess Laurentien, the sister in law of
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands is well-known for her
campaigns of literacy, and this week she paid a visit to the launch
of a special project for those where literacy has an added
difficulty – they are visually impaired. The project which runs
until 14th October is entitled “Read Fest: all children should be
able to read”. The event was…
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix of
the Netherlands had knee surgery yesterday in the
Franciscus/Vlietland Hospital in Schiedam. During the surgery a
prosthesis was inserted in the right knee. The surgeons were doctor
M.J.M Driessen en doctor S. Breugem. Doctor Driessen…
Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the
Netherlands has been in Jakarta, Indonesia, to speak on financial
inclusion at the Indonesia Fintech Festival and Conference. She is
in the country as part of her role as the United Nations
Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for…
A 44-year-old man from Kampen, in the
province of Overijssel in The Netherlands, was convicted of
insulting King Willem-Alexander today. He used his Facebook page to
insult King Willem-Alexander, by calling him a murderer, rapist and
a thief. He also posted a doctored photo of an execution, where the
head of one of the victims was replaced by King Willem-Alexander’s
head. He appeared in…
She was born Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti
17 May 1971 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Jorge Horacio
Zorreguieta and Maria del Carmen Cerruti de Zorreguieta. Her
Majesty has two brothers, one sister and three paternal
half-sisters. She was named after her paternal…
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands used
the drug perventine, now better known as crystal meth, during the
Second World War. It is reported by Marcel Verburg, who is a legal
historian, in his new book about the history of the Ministry of
Justice during the years 1940 to…
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark was among
the speakers at the Opening Ceremony of the Women Deliver
Conference in Copenhagen yesterday. The Crown Princess spoke about
how she was inspired to take up the cause of women’s rights seven
years ago, when someone from Chad told her that in their country
“when a woman gives birth she has one foot in the grave.” “That 300
000 women…
