Queen Mathilde paid a visit to the Food
Bank of Liège on Thursday to learn more about how the coronavirus
pandemic has affected the food supply for those in need and how it
has affected Belgian food banks. “The Queen wanted a panorama of
food aid, of which we are one of the first links,” the Banque
Alimentaire’s President, Bruno Nève, told reporters about her
visit. “The food bank…
On Thursday, Her Majesty Queen Sonja of
Norway opened a new exhibition in the Norwegian city of Lillehammer
at the Maihaugen Museum. Maihaugen’s new exhibition “Impulses”
shows more than 1000 cultural treasures from Norway with clear
traces of influence…
With the absence of state visits to the
UK this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are taking a look
back at the Dutch state visit to the UK that began on this day in
2018. King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima undertook a two-day
state visit to the UK from 23 to 24…
Albania hasn’t had a monarchy in many
years but it has welcomed a royal baby! The Albanian Royal Family
announced the birth of Her Royal Highness Princess Geraldine on 22
October 2020. The Princess is the first child of the Head of the
House, Crown Prince Leka of Albanians, and his wife Crown Princess
Elia of the Albanians. She was born at 9.30 in the morning at the
Queen Geraldine…
Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel
visited Södermanland County on Thursday to see firsthand how the
county has tackled the coronavirus pandemic. Their first stop, at
Kullburgska Hospital in Katrineholm, was a chance for Crown
Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel to…
Queen Letizia of Spain attended the
presentation of awards at the National Awards of the Fashion
Industry on Thursday. Presented annually by the Ministry of
Industry, the awards “recognise the work of people, institutions,
organisations, companies and industries that…
Queen Máxima gave a keynote speech on the
importance of owning digital identity documents as part of an event
organised by the World Bank Group. The Queen spoke at the Inclusive
Digital ID for a Resilient Recovery from COVID-19 event within the
framework of the Identification for Development at the World Bank
Group, where she advocated for the need for digital identity
documents to help…
Crown Princess Mary held a meeting with
the youth panel of her Mary Foundation on Tuesday to hear about how
the coronavirus pandemic has affected them and to discuss
solutions. In an Instagram post on the Mary Foundation’s account,
Crown Princess Mary wrote that the…
Crown Princess Mary attends World Hour for UN Sustainable Development Goals
22nd October 2020
Crown Princess Mary attended the World
Hour in Copenhagen on Wednesday, an event that teaches young people
about the UN Sustainable Development Goals. World Hour, held at
Copenhagen City Hall, is a program organised by the Danish branch
of World Goals and the global…
Princess Catharina-Amalia of the
Netherlands will receive a letter this week from the Dutch
government encouraging her into military service. The letter,
announced by Ank Bijleveld, the Minister of Defence, was sent to
212,000 young people who were born in 2003 and are on the cusp of
adulthood and the age that they can join the Dutch military. In a
video posted to his Twitter account…
