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Queen Maxima Pays Working Visit to Mentoring Foundation Zeeland

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22nd February 2019
Queen Máxima made the day of a group of clients and volunteers as she visited the Mentoring Foundation Zeeland and the Zeeuws Heldenfonds in Middelburg on Wednesday. The Queen, along with her husband King Willam-Alexander, serves as patron of the Oranje Fonds, the country’s largest national fund in the social field. The organisation supports social participation and connection projects in…
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Norway

Happy Birthday, King Harald!

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21st February 2019
His Majesty King Harald of Norway is 82-years-old today. To mark the King’s birthday, a 21-gun salute was fired today at noon from the cannons at Akershus Fortress in Oslo. Many people had turned up to watch the tribute in honour of the King. It is tradition in Norway to…
Denmark

Queen Margrethe to travel on the Dannebrog for summer tour to Køge and Nyborg

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20th February 2019
Queen Margrethe of Denmark is set to sail away on the royal yacht, Her Danish Majesty’s Yacht Dannebrog as part of an annual summer tour of the country. The Queen will make a visit to Køge Municipality respectively on 28 – 29 May and Nyborg Municipality on 31 May. The royal court states that the details of the Queens program will be published later. The annual royal summer tour on the…
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BelgiumEuropean Royals

Belgian royals attend memorial Mass for deceased family members

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20th February 2019
Most of the Belgian royal family was present in Laeken yesterday for the annual memorial Mass for deceased family members. The service took place in the Church of Our Lady of Laeken which also houses the royal family vault. The church was built in memory of Queen Louise-Marie (born of Orléans), the second wife of King Leopold I. He had previously been married to Princess Charlotte of Wales…
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Sweden

Who is Princess Leonore of Sweden?

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20th February 2019
Three months after the wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Christopher O’Neill, the Swedish Royal Court announced that Princess Madeleine was pregnant with her first child. Madeleine confirmed on her official Facebook in December 2013 that she was expecting a girl. On 20 February 2014, Princess Leonore Lilian Maria was born at the Weill Cornell Medical Centre in New York City. Due to…
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