Queen Máxima of the Netherlands attended
the first day of the Special Olympics National Games on the Sports
Campus in The Hague. The Games, which will take place from
June 11-13, 2021, are a national sporting event for athletes
with intellectual disabilities. The Netherlands has an
estimated 170,000 citizens who are intellectually disabled.
Organisers use the Games to promote a positive public…
Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, 83,
underwent an operation on her left ear at Leiden University Medical
Center on Friday. The former monarch’s operation was to remove a
cholesteatoma – an abnormal collection of skin cells – from the
ear. The…
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark gave the
opening speech at the UN World Goals Conference, and the launch of
the new National Action Plan for those goals, earlier this week,
saying that “now it is action.” The UN Sustainable Development
Goals were created in 2015 as…
Princess Amalia, the heir to the Dutch
throne, has informed Prime Minister Mark Rutte that she will return
the allowance she was due to receive upon her 18th birthday for the
duration of her studies. She wrote to the Prime Minister that she
finds receiving the allowance “uncomfortable, as long as she is
unable to work for it and other students will have it so much more
difficult.
Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
announced that he would resign as an active member of the
International Olympic Committee on Tuesday. The news came as a
surprise for most of the media, and many have now reacted to the
international press coverage of this news. Several…
Prince Julian of Sweden is set to be
christened in the Royal Chapel of Drottningholm Palace on Saturday,
14 August, and his christening will break a 43-year-old royal
tradition. Since the christening of Crown Princess Victoria in
1977, all royal christenings have been…
Norway’s royal couple and Crown Prince
Couple recently met many of those who survived the terrorist attack
on Utøya in Norway in 2011. This year marks ten years since the
terrorist attack on the young people on Utøya and on the government
quarter in Oslo. The Royal Family has met several survivors after
the July 22 attacks and has reacted strongly to survivors being
exposed to hate…
Princess Madeleine Thérèse Amelie
Josephine of Sweden was born on June 10, 1982, at Drottningholm
Palace. She is the youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen
Silvia. Her older sister is Crown Princess Victoria, and her
brother is Prince Carl Philip. Princess…
Princess Amalia, the heir to the Dutch
throne, has graduated high school at the highest level in the
Netherlands with distinction. This means that she scored an 8 out
of 10 or higher for every subject. Like her younger sisters, she
attended the Christelijk Gymnasium…
On 4 October 1966, the Danish Royal Court
announced that Crown Princess Margrethe was to marry Henri de
Laborde de Montpezat. The engagement was a surprise to most as they
had kept their relationship a secret.Henri was a French diplomat in
London, and he and Margrethe met during an official dinner at the
French Embassy and then again at a wedding, starting a relationship
soon…
