Several new photographs were revealed
yesterday by the Royal House of the Netherlands ahead of Princess
Beatrix’s 80th birthday today. They were taken by Jeroen van
der Meyde who has snapped many images of the Dutch Royal Family in
the past. The seven pictures were taken in the autumn of 2017
at Drakensteyn Castle in Lage Vuursche with one image
featuring the former Queen of the…
Close to 1.7 million people tuned in to
watch King Willem-Alexander’s Christmas address in the Netherlands
on Monday. The King of the Netherlands delivered his annual
Christmas speech from his home in Wassenaar. According to
Vorsten, 1,259,000 people in the…
I have long been advocating for more
books to be written in English about the royals of mainland Europe,
so I was thrilled to hear about and read Darling Queen – Dear Old
Bones: Queen Wilhelmina’s correspondence with her English
governess Miss Saxton…
The Prime Minister of the Netherlands
revealed the results of a commission’s investigation into whether
the Dutch Royal Family received a secret tax deal with the
government, confirming that there is no deal. “The conclusion of
the historical investigation is that nothing in the studied
documents showed that there was such a specific compensation
scheme, or so-called ‘secret tax deal,”…
Flashback Friday: King Willem-Alexander makes special agreement with daughters' bodyguards
6th October 2017
Earlier this year, King Willem-Alexander
made a special agreement with his daughters’ bodyguards. This news
was announced by His Majesty in a longer television interview
broadcast on the Dutch television channel NPO1 in connection with
the King’s 50th birthday in…
Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the
Netherlands has had transparent braces put on her teeth. The clear
braces were noticed this past week while she was conducting
engagements. Her first event this past week was on Tuesday when she
made a surprise appearance in Delft, and then…
After yet another deadly terror attack,
this one in Barcelona, Spain, royals have reacted on social media
and sent their condolences. At least 13 have been killed and over
100 injured after a terrorist ran over pedestrians with a van in
the Las Ramblas district of Barcelona. Later, five terrorists were
shot dead, and one was wounded by Spanish police in the nearby
tourist town of Cambrils. Police…
King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima and
their three daughters, Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange,
Princess Alexia and Princess Ariane posed for the press today. In
agreement with the media, the family poses twice a year for photos,
and in return, they are left alone in…
Thousands of known Dutch citizens are on
a “black list” of banks. The three daughters of King
Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima, Princesses Amalia, Alexia and
Ariane, are also on the list. According to Nos, the World-Check
database contains “2.2 million…
It has now been revealed that earlier
this month, His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
received his final training in flying a Boeing 737 aircraft.
Therefore, the King has obtained his certificate of flying one of
the largest aircraft for the company he has worked for
secretly in recent years – the Dutch national airline KLM. This has
also been confirmed by the Dutch…
