A lifelike doll of Dutch Princess
Catharina-Amalia (or Amalia for short) is going on display in
Amsterdam at the Art Dolls Expo this weekend. Amalia is
the eldest daughter of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima and
holds the title of Princess of Orange. The 69 centimetres tall
doll, made in the image of the 14-year-old future Queen of the
Netherlands, was created by Russian doll maker Elena…
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands attended
the conference of the International MS Federation (MSIF) yesterday
afternoon and later paid a working visit to the MS
(multiple sclerosis) Expertise Centre of care institute,
Nieuw Unicum in Zandvoort. The Queen heard about new…
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima met with protests as they take in King's Day concert
10th April 2018
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands were met with protests yesterday as
they arrived for the King’s Day concert, organised by the host city
of this year’s King’s Day celebrations later this month –
Groningen.
Individual portraits of Queen Máxima and
her three daughters, Princesses Amalia, Alexia and Ariane are on
display in the Groninger Museum in Groningen, The
Netherlands. Groningen is the host city for this year’s King’s
Day (Dutch: Koningsdag), which is celebrated annually on 27 April
(or the 26th if the 27th is on a Sunday). The 2018 celebration
will take place on Friday the…
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands will travel on a state visit to
Luxembourg in May. They will visit the small country from 23
to 25 May 2018 on the invitation of Their Royal Highnesses Grand
Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa…
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…
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 Netherlands during the
afternoon watched the King on four different television channels:
NPO 1, NPO 2, RTL 4 and SBS 6. Another…
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…
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 April. When the King was in his teens
and 20’s, he had entered into an agreement with his own security
guards that…
